Ten strikes of 11 DE 1920 rare right-set SC "TELEGR PHS HAIFA" skeleton pmk GD-78/Sach-H9 tied to 7-12-1920 postal employee fine (for errors in transmitting telegram) signed by postmaster and franked by 20x 5m Jerusalem I setting I Ba29 (perf. 14). Est. value $200+
Poststempel des Mandats & Israel - Haifa
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Auction #4 World Coins & Medals + Specialized Holyland Postal History
By: Historama
Historama Auction #4 World Coins & Medals + Specialized Holyland Postal History
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.
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Lot #40493 - Postmarks of the Mandate & Israel - Haifa
Lot #40494LA - Postmarks of the Mandate & Israel - Haifa
12 AUG 1925 1st day use of machine cancel GD-87/Sach-F1 on back of incoming cv ex STUTTGART to German Colony of Haifa; b/s same day arr using scarce CARMEL AVENUE B.O. pmk GD-95; cut open at left. Very fine.
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Lot #40495 - Postmarks of the Mandate & Israel - Haifa
2 JUNE 1926 reg. comm cv on Barclays Bank business stationary ex CAIRO to HAIFA, franked 30pi and tied by full strike of Cairo RB15 pmk (and again in field); b/s REGISTERED HAIFA using rare SC skeleton pmk w/single dateline GD-56 (rated E), per Sach-D5 on 2nd day of use. Bank wax seal on back; slit open at top. Very fine. Est. value $250+
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Lot #40496 - Postmarks of the Mandate & Israel - Haifa
15 Nov(?) 1924 comm cv on business stationary ex NEUWEILER, Ger. to GERMAN COLONY, Haifa franked 30pf period surface rate; b/s 24 DE 24 HAIFA transit using GD-25 & same day arr using scarce SC CARMEL AVENUE B.O. pmk GD-95; slit open at top; sm tear at left. Est. value $75+
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Lot #40497 - Postmarks of the Mandate & Israel - Haifa
17 JY 1924 stampless "certified official" OHMS cv ex Haifa Governorate (cachet on back) to local address in Arabic ("Mr. Gameel El-bahry | Al-zahra magazine's owner"); pmk'd using scarce CARMEL AVENUE.B.O. pmk GD-94; opened gently at back (small tear to flap). Est. Value $60+
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Lot #40498 - Postmarks of the Mandate & Israel - Haifa
14 JA 1926 mini pm cv ex HAIFA to ACRE franked 2m at pm rate using London II Ba72 tied by DC d/s GD-37 and triangular "CFA" pmk GD-80; torn open at back, but complete; business card inside. The dateless triangular pmk was used to process bulk domestic pm mail at Jewish New Year and Christmas time, ostensibly to 'hide' the sending date in case of delays - here undermined by use of d/s. Scarce, very fine; est....
Lot #40499LA - Postmarks of the Mandate & Israel - Haifa
4 JA 1929 comm cv to ENGLAND franked 7m per period surface rate to UK using Pictorals Ba95 tied by single strike of rare MOUNT CARMEL pmk: similar to GD-104/Sach-J27 but larger & predates their earliest date (3 MR 29); as Proud D1 - here used per his earliest date (first date). The MC postal agency opened 3 Dec. 1928; possible this device used prior to GD-104/J27; Proud...
Lot #40500 - Postmarks of the Mandate & Israel - Haifa
Used 90m stamp Ba101 vert. ribbed tied by part of rare HAIFA BAZAAR BO pmk GD-107/Sach-J9 dated 29 FE 29; est. value $250+
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Lot #40501 - Postmarks of the Mandate & Israel - Haifa
July-Aug 1929 comm cv ex PARIS to HAIFA (stamps cut out) backstamped 8 AU 1928 HAIFA transit & rare HAIFA BAZAAR B.O. pmk GD-107/Sach-J9; slit open at top and right. Est. value $100+
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Lot #40502 - Postmarks of the Mandate & Israel - Haifa
24 JY 1938 local comm cv franked 5m per period letter rate using Pictorals Ba93 tied by scarce DC AHUZAT SAMUEL HAIFA pmk GD-115/Sach-J3 on 1st day of use; torn open at back but complete. Est. value $75+
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Lot #40503LA - Postmarks of the Mandate & Israel - Haifa
15-03-1938 comm cv ex MECCA to HAIFA franked 2ᄑ qirsh and tied by full strike of local MEQQUE pmk; b/s 23 MR 38 DANTARA & PORT-TAUFIQ (plus "HOLY MAKKAH") transits + next day NAZARETH STREET B.O. arr using rare pmk GD-110/Sach-J33. Slit open at left; some surface pockmarks. Rare origin; well travelled; est. value $150+
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Lot #40504 - Postmarks of the Mandate & Israel - Haifa
9 DE 1938 uprated insured small 1937 RE Envelope (Ba RE.12-S) ex HAIFA to PARIS franked 35m (13m reg. + 15m surface rate to France + 7m for 12lb insurance) using pp'd frank + 7m & 15m pictorials, tied by 2 strikes of DC "HAIFA REG" ds w/reversed "D" (D7/R22/GD58) + one b/s; w/R-label, insurance label & 12.5 weight cachet on front; b/s 10 DE 38 PORT SAID transit & next day dispatch; wax sealed "JDA...
Lot #40505 - Postmarks of the Mandate & Israel - Haifa
18 DE 1942 reg cv ex BAT GALIM to solder of Middle East Force in Egypt, franked 25m per period rate (10m lett + 15m reg. fee) using Pictorals Ba93/99 tied by 2 strikes of rare SC BAT GALIM skeleton pmk GD-121 (& 2 on back); b/s same day REG HAIFA & next day FPO 550 (9th Army Palestine); 23 DE 42 in transit at EGYPT-37 (tied by "prepaid" pmk) & rec...
Lot #40506 - Postmarks of the Mandate & Israel - Haifa
24 SP 1940 local reg. comm cv in Arabic on business stationary with stamps cut out (probably 25m for letter+reg. fee) but b/s twice using scarce HAIFA REGISTERED SC skeleton datestamp GD-59 (rated D)/Sach-D8 on 4th day of use; as unclaimed returned to sender (marked by various instructional handstamps). Est. value $150+
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Lot #40507 - Postmarks of the Mandate & Israel - Haifa
10 AP 1930 stampless "certified official" cv on OHMS stationary ex "Station Office 'B' Division Haifa" (cachet on front) to Arab prisoner at Acre Prison, tied by HAIFA BAZAAR.B.O. pmk GD-108 on 1st day of use and b/s same day Haifa transit; dispatched oddly on Sat.(!) 12/04 & b/s same day ACRE arr using Dorf-3 + trilingual Prison cachet. As prisoner may have left, re-...
Lot #40508 - Postmarks of the Mandate & Israel - Haifa
21 JY 1938 local comm cv on OHMS stationary ex R.E. Stores Office in Haifa (cachet on back); as not marked "certified official", franked 5m per period letter rate using Pictorals Ba93, tied by single full strike of rare NAHLA BO pmk GD-118; slit open at top. Very fine; est. value $150+
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Lot #40509 - Postmarks of the Mandate & Israel - Haifa
1 MY 1944 reg. comm cv ex BAT GALIM to HAIFA franked 25m per period rate (10m lett + 15m reg. fee) using Pictorals Ba94/104/108 tied by 2 full strikes of very rare SC BAT GALIM pmk GD-122/Sach-J8 (and 2 on back); b/s REG HAIFA pmk; slit open at top. Very fine, est. value $250+
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Lot #40510 - Postmarks of the Mandate & Israel - Haifa
5 JU 1945 philatelic reg. pm cv franked 18m per period rate (3m pm + 15m reg) using Pictorals Ba91/94 tied by 2 full strikes of scarce HERTSELIYA BO pmk GD-125/Sach-J22 on 1st day of use (and twice on back); b/s same day REG HAIFA transit & next day HAIFA HADAR HACARMEL arr using GD-100; unsealed per pm; scarce rate; reg. Est. value $125+
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Lot #40511 - Postmarks of the Mandate & Israel - Haifa
8 AU 1938 local comm cv franked 5m per period letter rate using Pictorals Ba93 tied by full strike of rare AHUZAT SAMUEL HAIFA pmk GD-114/Sach-J2; opened roughly at back, complete. Est. value $120+
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Lot #40512 - Postmarks of the Mandate & Israel - Haifa
Full strike of 19 FE 1944 rare SC "LICENSING AUTHORITY" radio-telephone pmk GD-72 tied to section of receipt for driving test. Est. value $100+
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Lot #40513 - Postmarks of the Mandate & Israel - Haifa
Full strike of scarce red 17 JA 1946 5m "POSTAGE PAID" pmk GD-70 tied to stampless pm cv to AUSTIN; unsealed per pm regulations. Rare overseas rate. Est. value $75+
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Lot #40514 - Postmarks of the Mandate & Israel - Haifa
23 OC 1946 front of stampless "certified official" reg cv ex HAIFA to ACRE tied by rare SC "LICENSING AUTHORITY" radio-telephone pmk GD-72 here on LKD of use - this usually used on license forms but also as letter canceller; frayed edges. Est. value $150+
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Lot #40515 - Postmarks of the Mandate & Israel - Haifa
29 MY 1947 local reg. cv on Moslem Society stationary (to "Her Excellency the Director of Social Affairs, Haifa; Shtanton st. Haifa") franked 25m per period rate (10m lett + 15m reg) tied by 2 strikes of rare HIDJAZ STREET skeleton pmk GD-124/Sach-J25 (and twice on back); b/s same day REG HAIFA; torn open at back & repaired, complete; est. value $150+
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Lot #40516LA - Postmarks of the Mandate & Israel - Haifa
Machine cancel GD-88/Sach-F5 with different dated heads 2 DEC 47 & 2 JAN 48 tied to local comm pm cv franked 3m per period rate; unsealed per pm regulations. Rare error unrecorded in GD and Sacher. Est. value $150+
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Lot #40517 - Postmarks of the Mandate & Israel - Haifa
Late Mandate 18 AP 1948 local reg. philatelic(?) cv franked 25m per period rate (10m letter + 15m reg. fee) using Pictorals Ba97/108 tied by 2 full strikes of damaged AHUZAT SAMUEL pmk GD-117 (and 2 on back); b/s 20 AP 48 unusual REGISTERED HAIFA oval pmk w/thick letters close to edge (unlisted GD & Sacher; identical to Proud R17 whose LKD is 7-08-45) & same day arr...
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