1948 Egyptian seizure of mail to Israel: 22-3-1948 surface mailed reg. cv ex CHELYABINSK (USSR) to BEIT ALFA (scarce destination), franked 1.90R & tied by 3 strikes of local pmk; b/s 31-3-48 MOSCOW transit; as surf. mail cv probably routed via UK on to EGYPT (as mail origin located E. of Pal.), where as of early April mail to Jews in Palestine is seized, censored & returned to sender...
Historama Autumn Mail Auction #5
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Historama Historama Autumn Mail Auction #5
Our new mail auction opens 1 Oct. and runs until 20:00 Israel-time on Wed. Oct. 25th. The sale features a nicely developed and balanced selection of 661 lots of high quality items covering ancient to modern numismatics & exonumia; Judaica (religious books, Rabbinic letters and signatures, Hassidic items, medallic items and ephemera) and Judaic tokens & medals; Israeliana; Jewish, Israeli & Arabian militaria and philately. There are 661 single-item and multiple-item lots, something for every taste and interest. More information is available here.
The philatelic offering is our best yet, highlighted by an extraordinary assembly of postal history documenting the Arab-Israeli conflict (1947 to present); WWII postal links w/Palestine; ‘Baghdad overland mail’; 1948-era mail incl. Israeli interim-period, emergency + early foreign postal links, besieged towns, early postage dues & mail of Arab armies in Palestine; Mandate & Israeli postal history; Mandate cachets & postal markings; Red Cross & POW mail; censored mail; British WWI EEF mail from Egypt; rare Jerusalem postmarks; Jewish/Zionist stamps; Jewish Brigade & displaced persons mail.
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Lot #50573 - Philately > 1948-49 War "Suspended Service" mail
1948 Egyptian seizure of mail to Israel: 12-4-1948 surface mailed cv ex W. BERLIN to GAN ZVI (scarce destination), franked 50Pf & tied by local machine cancel: this mailed 6 days after UK suspended surface mail to Pal. (Ger.'s usual route), here possible sent via FRANCE (as not marked "no service" or RTS); routing went via EGYPT, where as of early April mail to Jews in Palestine...
Lot #50574 - Philately > 1948-49 War "Suspended Service" mail
1948 Egyptian seizure of mail to Israel: 24 IV 1948 a/m cv ex BASEL to HAIFA, franked 70c & tied by strike of local pmk; dispatched 2 days before all airmail to Palestine gets returned due to service suspensions: here transported via CAIRO, where since early April mail to Jews in Palestine is seized, censored & returned to sender, as done here - opened/resealed using...
Lot #50575 - Philately > 1948-49 War "Suspended Service" mail
1948 Egyptian seizure of mail to Israel: 19-4-1948 surface mailed reg. cv ex SIEFHENNERSDORF (Ger., Sov. zone) to TLV, franked 1.10DM & tied by 2 strikes of local pmk: this mailed 13 days after UK suspended surface mail to Pal. (Ger.'s usual route), here possibly sent via FRANCE (as not marked "no service" or RTS) - late s/m; route went via EGYPT, where as of early April mail to...
Lot #50576 - Philately > 1948-49 War "Suspended Service" mail
1948 Egyptian seizure of mail to Israel: 13-5-1948 reg. a/m cv ex ADDIS ABABA to TLV (sent day before decl. of indep.), franked $1.80 & tied by 3 strikes of local pmk; despite a/m requested, all mail via Ethiopia was sent by surface, esp via Suez Canal: as of early April, Egypt seized, censored & RTS mail sent to Jews in Palestine, as done here - b/s 18 MAY 48 PORT SAID transit (this...
Lot #50577 - Philately > 1948-49 War "Suspended Service" mail
Egyptian postal boycott of Israel: 15 SEP 1948 a/m cv ex EAST FINCHLEY (UK) to KFAR PINES (via KARKUR), franked 6d & tied by local machine cancel + same day LONDON F.S. ("Foreign Section") dispatch; as address didn't include country name, this [mis-] routed via EGYPT where censored - uniquely - in ALEXANDRIA (rather than Cairo) using K-Type3 ("Mim") h/s, where country-name "Palestine"...
Lot #50578 - Philately > 1948-49 War "Suspended Service" mail
1948 Polish "service suspended" mail to Palestine: 8-4-1948 air letter stationary (VI-1937 ed.) ex WARSAW to TLV, franked 25Zl in place of obliterated pre-frank & tied by local machine cancel; as under-franked for a/m, marked by bilingual Pol/Fr "Insufficient fee for air transport" & sent by surface mail, here via UK: as of 7 APR, UK suspended s/m to Pal., so marked...
Lot #50579 - Philately > 1948-49 War "Suspended Service" mail
1948 South African "service suspended" mail: 23 IV 1948 a/m cv ex PRETORIA to TLV, franked 9d per period rate & tied by local machine cancel; as S. Africa suspended a/m to Pal. next day (& Lydda airfield closed 25 April) - here cv marked "NO SERVICE" IM h/s K-Type-1 + m/s "PTO" ["please turn over"] - here early m/s IM before use of h/s (from 24 April), when volume of affected mail realized, this being...
Lot #50580 - Philately > 1948-49 War "Suspended Service" mail
1948 British "service suspended" mail to Palestine: 8 APR 1948 surface mailed comm cv on business stationary ex BIRMINGHAM to TLV, franked 2½d per 1940 1oz letter rate & tied by local machine slogan cancel; here cv posted 2 days after latest date for surface mail ex UK to Pal., so marked by newly instituted "SERVICE SUSPENDED | AIR MAIL SERVICE ONLY" IM h/s K-Type-1 + standard "undelivered... RTS" 2 line...
Lot #50581 - Philately > 1948-49 War "Suspended Service" mail
1948 US "service suspended" mail to Palestine: 31 MAR 1948 surface mail cv ex WELLSBORO to KFAR ATTA, franked 5c & tied by local machine cancel; posted 4 days after 27 Mar. US s/m suspension to Pal., so marked by NYC PO "Surface Mail Suspended | Return to Sender" IM h/s K-Type-1 & RTS.
Lot #50582 - Philately > 1948-49 War "Suspended Service" mail
1948 South African "service suspended" mail: 30 IV 1948 a/m cv ex JOHANNESBURG to TLV, franked 10d per period 9d rate & tied by multiple strikes of JO'BURG-94 pmk; however S. Africa suspended a/m to Pal. 24 April (& Lydda airfield closed 25 April) - here cv marked by both IM h/s "P.T.O." ["please turn over"] + "NO SERVICE" K-Type-I & II and as w/all such mail, sent to CAPE TOWN...
Lot #50583 - Philately > 1948-49 War "Suspended Service" mail
1948 US "service suspended" mail to Palestine: 7 APR 1948 surface mail comm. FDC ex NATCHEZ to TLV, franked 6c & tied by FDC machine cancel; posted 11 days after 27 Mar. US s/m suspension to Pal., so marked by NYC PO "Surface Mail Suspended | Return to Sender" IM h/s K-Type-1 + IM h/s K-Type-II (reversed order of Type-I text) & RTS - rare instance of both IM's on one cv...
Lot #50584 - Philately > 1948-49 War "Suspended Service" mail
1948 US "service suspended" mail to Palestine: 27 APR 1948 air letter ex NYC (r/a Stamford) to TLV, pre-franked 10c per period rate & tied by local pmk; here, posted day after US a/m suspension to Pal., so marked by "RETURNED TO SENDER | SERVICE SUSPENDED" IM h/s K-Type-V on earliest known postmarked mail & RTS.
Lot #50585 - Philately > 1948-49 War "Suspended Service" mail
1948 US "no service" mail to Arab countries: 10 APR 1948 surface mailed comm. cv ex BOWLING GREEN to BEIRUT, franked 1½c & tied by local machine cancel; cv transmitted to NYC, but as surface mail service suspended 27 MAR, PO marked it w/2-lined "SURFACE MAILS SUPENDED | RETURNED TO SENDER" IM h/s K-US-Type-1 & RtS; scarce instance of Arab destination affected by postally by 1948 events in...
Lot #50586 - Philately > 1948-49 War "Suspended Service" mail
1948-49 War Syrian airlink with Palestine: 7 JAN 1949 pp'd airletter ex LONG ISLAND CITY to J'LEM "Palestine", pre-franked 10c per period rate & tied by local machine cancel; as such not routed to ISRAEL & instead via SYRIA which maintained air-link to Pal. via JORDAN except when interrupted by the war, Jan-Mar 1949 ("Israel"-bound mail would have...
Lot #50587 - Philately > 1948-49 War "Suspended Service" mail
1948 Costa Rican "service suspended" mail to Israel: 12 JUN 1948 reg. "transatlantic air mail" comm. cv ex SAN JOSE to Mendel Shapira HAIFA, franked 125c & tied by 3 strikes of local pmk + "REGISTERED" h/s (faint) w/red number & 2 strikes of sender's business cachet on back; C/S suspended airmail to Pal. 26 APRIL & renewed it 24 JUNE (reg. & surface mail renewed 17 JUNE) - here cv posted...
Lot #50588 - Philately > 1948-49 War "Suspended Service" mail
1948-49 War "Destinaire Parti" mail: 8 IV 1948 reg. cv in Arabic ex BEYROUTH (r/a "Rashad Elmaghrby Dar Ghouth, Beirut") to [unclear address] J'LEM, franked 50p & tied by 2 strikes of local pmk; cv reached J'LEM before full siege began on 20 April: marked twice by J'LEM PO "Destinaire Parti" Mandate IM h/s K-Type-II as addressee no longer at his address (i.e. fled/evacuated) - very rare: less than...
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