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Monday 8-04-2019 Timed Sale at Bidspirit.com @ 19:15 Israel-time | LOTS #1-579
Numismatics | Judaic Tokens & Medals | Banknotes | Arabiana | Israeliana | Judaica | Militaria | Ephemera
Tuesday 9-04-2019 @ 20:00 Israel-time | LOTS #580-1313
Stamps | Postal History | Philately | Paraphilately | Philatelic Documents
Welcome you to our 7th auction, this being our first in the format of a 'Buy or Bid' sale, where lots may be bid-on or purchased outright; there are over 1300 attractive lots on offer. The sale features items in every one of our areas of specialty, and is probably the largest (and best) selection of Judaic, Holyland and Israeli collectibles for sale anywhere at this time. Featured subjects include ancient & modern coins; Jewish tokens & medals; Jewish, Mandate & Israeli militaria; World War II collaborationist and Holocaust-related militaria; loose & affixed stamps of the Holyland, Egypt and the JNF; postal history of all periods and across all themes and subjects from the Holyland, Mandate, Israel, the Palestinian Authority & near east, as well as worldwide wartime (WWI / WWII) civilian and military mail (from 'horseshoe' and pre-'horseshoe route' mail to post-Third Reich 'uberroller' & displaced persons mail), mail of the Arab-Israeli conflict & 'postkrieg', Hijack/Terror mail + American Civil War Confederate States of America philately - a new subject area for us (students of Israeli & Interim postal history - unusual routes, special rates & key dates - will recognize many similar characteristics to their CSA counterpart); plus Judaica, Israeliana, Arabiana, banknotes and other areas of interest. There are many unique and 'discovery' items in this sale, and many fascinating objects both old and contemporary worth your attention.
The sale itself is divided into 2 parts, one covering non-philatelic fields (lots 1 - 579), and one covering philately (lots 580 - 1313). The period between now and the published 'end times' of the two parts of sale functions as a 'pre-sale' period: during this time lots may be bid on in a standard mail auction manner (bids submitted in writing) or through the online auction program, or be purchased outright. The published opening bid prices are the minimum bid prices, and the buyout prices (displayed below the lot descriptions) are mostly set 50% above the opening bid levels (traditionally "best" bids, which win a lot even before an auction's end are set to 3x the opening bid price). These "buy it now" prices are dynamic: they will rise by 5-10% for every bid received on a lot once the current bid level passes the midway point between the starting bid price and the original buyout price - please visit our home site historama.com/auctions or contact us for the updated buy-out prices. This is not intended to take advantage of interest in a lot but rather to avoid discouraging bidders from continuing to bid on an item of interest. As of now, at the end of the pre-sale period for Part 1 of the sale (non-philatelic items), available lots will be offered for sale in a timed live sale on our page at Bidspirit.com; Part 2 (philately) will run as a mail auction until the published end date and time, with 5 minute time-extensions if bids are received in the last minute of the sale (or time extension).
Once the sale is over it will take a few days to issue official "winner" notifications. Please bear with us, as the more broadly the sale is displayed and the more people participate, the more complex the process of collating all the bids from various sources and actioning special requests. The winner notification email contains a link to our automated checkout on the site - and this process generates the invoice. Please check your "spam" folder for the mail (from "historama-auctions") if it doesn't reach your inbox within 2-3 days of the sale's end. Unsold lots will be available for direct purchase after the sale - but may be displayed at a higher price than the opening bid levels for the sale: we do this to discourage fence-sitting during the sale; the opening bid prices are competitively set in order to encourage bidding. Here I should emphasize that the opening bid prices are not a reflection of our evaluation of a lot’s worth: where possible I have added an estimated value at the end of a product description, but a low starting price should not be construed as a lack of understanding of a lot’s worth.
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.
Catalogues are free on request.
Our sale features a large selection of important pieces of postal history; our numismatic offering is smaller than usual as we had to set aside a large collection of ancient and medieval coins pending the receipt of our antiquities license (whose receipt is pending almost a year). Nevertheless, we begin with a small but high caliber selection of world coins and medals, including a series of high grade Italian 19th & 20th Century silver coins and some Judaic medals including the rare “Judea Restituta” medal commissioned by Yehuda Arazi (1946), and many lots of silver coins.
Our philatelic offering is phenomenal: our selection of WWII postal links with Palestine includes mail sent at the moment the War broke out, including a stunning cover to Poland 3-09-39 refused service and enclosed with a rare mimeograph from the Jerusalem censor announcing the cessation of communications with Germany, a cover from the Latvian foreign ministry sent a day after the installation of the pro-Soviet government, Red Cross 2-way correspondence mail with Nazi Germany, mail from France and to Poland during the various stages of the 1939-40 campaigns, mail from Aden and Iran, mail to the Shanghai Ghetto, and more.
We are honored to represent fine pieces of “service suspended” mail of the Arab-Israeli conflict from a Large Gold collection, whose degree of detail reveals the fascinating story and intricacy of politically-charged postal routings, and includes pieces with rare service suspended cachets of various Arab countries, Israeli service-refused markings, Cold War 'postkrieg', mis-directed mail (to Israel or Arab states) including a cover from India to Iran which was routed via Israel, an incredible pilot-signed “hi-jack” cover from flight BA870 (1974), mail from the 2nd Intifada and more – many pieces the sole examples known; a world of history unto itself.
We are also proud to present a meticulously assembled 50 year-old collection of British military mail and postmarks from Egypt in WWI, including some very rare censored pieces (the “circle E” and undocumented “OET #4 Censorship” markings), a series of undocumented postmarks including some pre-dating the known dates of establishment of certain army post offices. Additionally we offer key German & French Palestine-related covers: a picture postcard marked by a rare handstamp of the French High Commissioner for Palestine; registered letters from Militär-Mission Feldpost 4. Armee, K. D. Feldpoststation 372, Deutche Feldpost 663, FELDPOST MIL. MISS. BIR-ES-SEBA – and more.
Drawing upon what is reputedly the largest collection of Jerusalem postmarks – and one of only 3 such in the world - In the area of postmarks, we offer a wealth of materials from rare and even undocumented cancellations from Jerusalem and Haifa, a proof strike of the very rare 21-02-1949 first Israeli Jerusalem machine cancel – possibly the rarest of all Israeli cancellations, full strikes of Talavera Barracks, Jerusalem-Lydda TPO and more. Similarly, our Holyland forerunners are studded with key postmarks: Ottoman AIOUN CARA, JAFFA7 (#831), violet QUARTIER ISRAELITE w/date (#753v); Russian rare blue JAFFA (#614); French JAFFA (#311); plus “Tempel-Kolonie”, “Aus Sarona” & “RISCHON-L'-ZION” (#153/St-708) colony cachets – and more.
Our Mandate postal history offering includes very rare rates, such as the period-3 1m printed matter rate, a 1938 airmail from Haifa to Tel Aviv, a gem period-2 postcard franked by the cobalt-blue Ba2 EEF frank, and more. Among Israeli state postal history we offer incredible PEDI covers: a registered cover, a back-stamped cover, and the highest numbered cover with both type I and II cancellations.
Our selection of taxed mail is probably unparalleled, with many exquisite pieces of domestic and overseas mail taxed with high frankings or taxed for unusual reasons, including a couriered “poste restante” cover taxed for being return addressed in the same locale as the PR service requested, 1948 mail with 'provisional' tax frankings, interim-period mail with interim frankings as PDs, revenue-label franked mail (both taxed and accepted!), postage dues from recent inflationary periods, currency transitions, mixed frankings and much more.
The philatelic selection is rounded out by many airmail covers and special surface mail representing important routes and bearing special frankings, including full tabs. Our next sale will take place later this summer – and by then the full force of our numismatic offering will featured.
Bidding in Our Auctions
In light of numerous requests we have received to run “live auctions”, this sale of 641 lots will be a combined mail and timed ('live') auction. It will open on April 19th and end May 17th. Some of the lots in the sale will be sold in the usual manner of a mail auction by receiving bids in writing on lots throughout the sale period (above) until the end of this portion of the sale (22:00 Israel time on 17 May): bidders with the highest bids will be the winners of those lots at that time; bidding-time will be extended by 5 minutes in the event bids are received within the last 60 seconds.
Other lots (202) with specially marked lot numbers ending “-LA” – will be on pre-sale display until May 17th and will go on sale starting at 22:00 Israel time on 17 May, on a 3rd party live auction site called Bidspirit.com; this will be the timed auction (without auction hall or announcer), and each lot in this portion of the sale will be displayed for a minimum of 30 seconds, during which time live bids can be submitted. Pre-sale bids can be placed on these lots in writing before the start of the sale and absentee bids in writing can be submitted during the sale itself. These lots will be displayed here, on our site (historama.com/auctions) and also on our Bidspirit site (historama.bidspirit.com): on this and our site these lots will appear static, without real-time changes in the bid level, but on the Bidspirit site the bid status of these lots will update in real-time before and during the sale – and the sale itself will be conducted on our Bidspirit site only.
Both portions of the sale run in the same manner: the bid level increases by steps, so that if a person submits a high bid relative to the present level, the present level will only rise by 1 step and the rest of that person's high bid will be kept in reserve by the auction program in order to counterbid on his behalf if competing bids are subsequently placed.
As is our policy, in the mail auction opening bid levels are flexible and we can accept bids that are as much as 20% below that level provided there are no unpublished reserves which are above that level. In any event, reserves will never be higher than the opening bid level. As Bidspirit is unable to process bids below the opening level (for the live auction/time auction), the displayed opening bid levels will be the minimum acceptable bids.
Our auctions are designed to enable bidders to make the most of their budget, while aiming to save them money: last-minute bid increases can be selected (for some or all bids); a bid-budget can be specified, to protect bidders from financial over exposure – and here, bidders can also specify their order of preference among the lots they win, to secure those which are most important to them.
We look forward to having you at our sale and wish you good luck with your bids.
Sale features broad selection of specialized philatelics, numismatics & exonumia focused on the Holyland, Mandate, Israel and Judaica, covering airmail & postage-dues, special rates, routes & postmarks; numismatics, militaria & Israeliana related to most facets of Jewish and Israeli history - significant pieces at attractive starting prices. An excellent opportunity for specialist collectors to obtain unique items at low prices.
'Gold medal' sale of 900+ lots. Numismatics, Jewish-Israeli-Zionist: high-grade coins + rare medals & tokens - museum caliber. Philately, Holyland-Mandate-Israel: rare postage dues, 1948 flown civilian mail, rare PEDI covers, rare postmarks, military mail, airmail, loose stamps. PLUS militaria, Israeliana, banknotes, ephemera & Arabian collectibles. From 4-26 Sept.
Our sale is composed of 520 quality lots covering the areas of Jewish and historical coins, medals and tokens; a selection of stamps and covers representing Holyland-Mandate-Israel and JNF philately; a segment of militaria highlighting key pieces of Israeli militaria plus interesting Holocaust-related items; a highly-concentrated segment of ephemera representing key moments during the establishment of the State; and a nice offering of Israeliana - exonumia and ephemera, covering many special segments, from schools, to scouts, sports, transport, Freemasonry, and municipalities.
The center-piece of our sale is medallic Judaica forming the second part of “the Ramat Gan collection” (the first already being display at fixed prices in our online store) of Judaic medals and tokens, formed by Moshe Doron z”l, who built his collection from the 1950’s to the first decade of the 2000s; where every piece he collected had some kind of Jewish significance, and whose highlights are akin to a “who’s-who” list of key Jewish medals. http://historama.com/historama-auctions.html?id=84
Opening bids are flexible; high bids get reduced; bidding options are available http://historama.com/historama-auctions/auctions-bidding.html
Catalogue:http://www.historama.com/historama_spring_auction_catalogue_0316.pdf?acm=12_46
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Unser Verkauf besteht aus 520 Qualitäts-Losen in den Bereichen der jüdischen und historischen Münzen, Medaillen und Token; einer Auswahl von Briefmarken und Briefumschlägen, die Heiliges Land-Mandat-Israel und JNF-Philatelie darstellt; einem Abschnitt von hervorhebenden wichtigsten Stücken der israelischen Militär und interessanten mit Holocaust verbundenen Artikeln; einem hochkonzentriertem Teil der Ephemera, die die wichtigsten Momente während der Gründung des Staates darstellt; und ein nettes Angebot von Israeliana - Exonumia und Ephemera, viele spezielle Bereiche aus Schulen, Pfadfinder, Sport, Transport, Freimaurerei und Gemeinden umfassen.
Das Herzstück unseres Verkaufs ist Medaillen-Judaika, die den zweiten Teil "der Ramat Gan-Kollektion" bildet (die erste ist bereits mit festen Preisen in unserem Online-Shop dargestellt)... http://historama.com/de/auktionen-home.html?id=85
Eröffnungsgebote sind flexibel; hohe Gebote werden reduziert; Gebotsoptionen stehen zur Verfügung http://historama.com/de/auktionen-home/über-unsere-auktion.htm
Katalog: http://www.historama.com/historama_spring_auction_catalogue_0316.pdf?acm=12_46
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המכירה שלנו מורכבת מ-520 לוטים איכותיים המכסים את תחומי המטבעות, המדליות והאסימונים היהודיים וההיסטוריים; מבחר של בולים ומעטפות המייצגים את תקופת ההולילנד-המנדט-ישראל ובולאות של הקרן הקיימת לישראל; חלק של מיליטריה שמדגיש פריטי-מפתח של מילטריה ישראלית וכן פריטים מעניינים הקשורים לשואה; חלק המכיל פריטים רבים של פריטים בני-התקופה המייצגים רגעים חשובים במהלך הקמת המדינה; ומבחר נאה של פריטי ישראליאנה – אקסונומיה וניירת, המכסים חלקים מיוחדים רבים, החל מבתי-ספר, דרך תנועת הצופים, ספורט, תחבורה, הבונים החופשיים ועיריות.
לב המכירה שלנו הינו מדליות יהודיות המהוות את החלק השני של "אוסף רמת גן" (החלק הראשון כבר מוצג במחירים קבועים באתר האינטרנט שלנו) ובו מדליות ואסימונים יהודיים... http://historama.com/he/עמוד-הבית-למכירות-פומביות.html
ניתן לתת הצעות התחת למחיר ההתחלתי; הצעות מובילות יופחתו בסוף המכירה; יש מגוון אופציות למטב הצעותכם.http://historama.com/he/עמוד-הבית-למכירות-פומביות/תפעול-המכירה.html
קטלוג לצפייה והורדה http://www.historama.com/historama_spring_auction_catalogue_0316.pdf?acm=12_46