Auction #45

PEDI - First Flight 21 MAY 1948 Registered legal size air mail cv New York to TLV initially posted 22.4.48 marked "SERVICE (SUSPENDED) RETURN TO SENDER" later sent by PEDI, properly franked 1.20 $ for quadruple rate, tied by the canceller type 2, cv #473 & circular cachet of the Czech CSA Co. that brought the 1st consignment from Rome to TLV, endorsed by the addressee in Hebrew "Received not in the usual way", on back New York pmks of April 22 & May 18 1948 & arrival Israeli pmk of TEL AVIV 4.6.1948 & Nat. Loan cachet; minor soiling, light peripheral faults as a much traveled cv, fine & scarce (photog. in Israel Postal Links by Shamir Siegel p. 102)