15 MAY 1948 early Israel reg. cv (w/o reg. service): local HAIFA reg. cv ex AHUZAT SAMUEL town agency to MOUNT CARMEL, franked 25m per period reg. letter rate using interim 5m Negev & 2x 10m brown Diaspora I (Ba 32/44-45, all w/TLV ovpt's) & tied by 2 strikes "reintroduced" mandate A/S HAIFA pmk (GD-117; no interim canceller used here) dated 15 MY 48 - here Saturday night/...
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 #50508 - Philately > 1948 Early, Interim & Emergency mail
Highest registered interim/3 period cv ex Haifa HPO: dateless reg. cv on trilingual business stationary ex HAIFA head PO to "Kafe Noam" TIBERIAS, franked 25m per period rate using interim 2x 10m Immigrant Ship (note print variations) & 5m Weizmann (Ba 11/23, all w/TLV ovpt's) & tied by 2 strikes of interim dateless cancel of Head PO (w/"divided ovals" on sides) + 1 on...
Lot #50509 - Philately > 1948 Early, Interim & Emergency mail
Interim period Haifa HPO Mandate franking mail: local HAIFA reg. cv ex Consolidated Refineries Ltd. to Execution Officer, franked 26m per period reg. letter rate (25m w/1m convenience overcharge) - using only Mandate pictorals, vert. pair 3m & 20m (Ba 91/99) & tied by full strike of interim dateless cancel of Head PO (w/"divided ovals" on sides) + 2x on back - this in use only...
Lot #50510 - Philately > 1948 Early, Interim & Emergency mail
Very early reg. interim cv: dateless local HAIFA reg. cv ex Tuberculosis League, franked 25m per period rate (10m letter + 15m reg. fee) using interim Technion 5m & pair 10m (Ba13/14, w/Haifa ovpt's) & tied by strike of interim pmk + 2x on back; tied by Haifa-12 (NAHLA Branch Office) R-label 0019 - this very early use (0003-1672 using bet. 2-14 May), so probably posted 2 MAY...
Lot #50511 - Philately > 1948 Early, Interim & Emergency mail
Interim period mixed franking mail: local HAIFA reg. cv ex MOUNT CARMEL BO, franked 25m per period rate using mix of Mandate pictorals 5m & 10m (Ba93/97) + MH Weizman 10m (Ba12) w/Haifa ovpt & tied by 2 strikes of local MH dateless pmk + 2 on back; tied by Haifa-3 (Mt. Carmel) period R-label 2243 indicating mailing c. 12 May (14 May last day of MH...
Lot #50512 - Philately > 1948 Early, Interim & Emergency mail
Interim "official" mail between municipalities: dateless reg. cv on HAIFA municipality stationary to Israel Rokakh, Mayor TLV, franked 25m per period rate (10m letter + 15m reg fee) using 5x 5m Herzl interim franks (Ba 6) & tied by 2 strikes of [Hadar HaCarmel BO] interim dateless cancel + 2x on back & Haifa-1 (HHC BO) R-label w/relatively low period number 2743 (...
Lot #50513 - Philately > 1948 Early, Interim & Emergency mail
Beseiged Safed interim post: 10 MAY 1948 local pm cv franked 5m per period 3m pm rate (2m overcharge) using Mand. Ba93 tied by full strike carmine "circular local" pmk; cut open at top. Probably posted sealed (against pm reguations) to protect contents as op. to liberate town began same day; Mand. frank justified as local issue only avail. in 10m. Evaluated as genuine cv: pmk...
Lot #50514 - Philately > 1948 Early, Interim & Emergency mail
Early Israeli outbound mail: undated surface mailed cv ("Mataf" stationary) ex J'LEM (no r/a), addressed entirely in Arabic to "Dear respectable friend Jacop Yousef who is living in house number 13/91 in Hedar Khan area BAGHDAD", franked 20m per period surface rate to non-UK destination using 4x Mand. Pictorals 5m (Ba93; interim franks not authorized for outbound mail) & tied by 2 strikes...
Lot #50515 - Philately > 1948 Early, Interim & Emergency mail
Nahariya Slogans: 4 APR 1948 comm cv ex NAHARIYA to HAIFA, mailed stampless & tied front/back by 4th slogan pmk on 1st day of use (indicating 20m advance fee for this service was paid); cv was transported from besieged Nahariya by sea to HAIFA, where posted 13 AP 48 at the Mandate PO - here franked 10m per period letter rate using vert pair 5m & tied by local pmk.; horiz. fold.
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Lot #50516 - Philately > 1948 Early, Interim & Emergency mail
Air France first flight: 9-6-1948 a/m stationary cv ex TLV (r/a "Palestine") to PARIS, franked 35m per FA-1 period a/m letter rate to France & tied by TLV HPO pmk + special TLV (narrow text) black bilingual Heb/Fr. FF 2-line text cachet: probably carried on 1st flight ex HAIFA on 11 June and not [2nd] FF ex TLV of 16 June as this flight only announced day before; here dispatched before Aloni's...
Lot #50517 - Philately > 1948 Early, Interim & Emergency mail
Air France first flight ex Haifa: 10-6-1948 reg. a/m cv ex HAIFA to PARIS, franked 50m per FA-1 period rate (35m a/m letter + 15m reg. fee) using mixed perf. franking of 10m roulette & 2x20m & tied by HPO pmk, ensorsed m/s "per Air France"; carried on 1st flight ex Israel since restoration of a/m links w/Fr. 9 June (& reg. service 8 June) of 11 June (arr. 12th); tied on front by...
Lot #50518 - Philately > 1948 Early, Interim & Emergency mail
Early airmail to US (pre postal relations): 16-6-1948 reg. comm. a/m cv ex TLV to hair business NEW JERSEY, franked 80m per FA-1 period rate (65m a/m to US + 15m reg. fee) using 50m & 2x 15m & tied by 2 strikes of HPO pmk on front + 1x on back (flap sealed w/20m frank tab) - here mailed 2 weeks before resumption of a/m services bet. US & Isr. (29 June) & carried by CSA, Air...
Lot #50519 - Philately > 1948 Early, Interim & Emergency mail
Early Israeli postal links: 21-3-1948 reg. pm a/m cv ex LODZ to 'supreme leadership' (of HaShomer HaTzair) KIBBUTZ MERHAVIA "via AFFULA post", marked in poor Polish "Printed Leaflets" on front & franked special 75Zl rate tied by 4 strikes of REJ. URZ. TE. TG. LODZ pmk; day before all airlines (except TWA & BOAC) suspended services to Lydda...
Lot #50520 - Philately > 1948 Early, Interim & Emergency mail
1948 emergency mail: courier cv on JNF stationary ex ARNHEM to TLV, brought on board Israeli ship "S/S Kedma" here on its final transport of 1948 "emergency mail" before commencing transport of sea mail for the Israel Post (exclusively until Nov. 1952): this & other cv's in shipment was prepaid to the shipping company, who uniquely stamped these cv's with bilingual Eng./Heb. circular h/s...
Lot #50521 - Philately > 1948 Early, Interim & Emergency mail
1948 emergency mail: front surf. mail reg. comm. cv on business stationary ex PARIS to bank in TLV, pre-franked 45F locally per period rate but not posted as surface mail to Pal. suspended (until 15 June 1948): here, dispatched as pre-paid "courier cv" brought on board Israeli ship "S/S Kedma" on its final transport of 1948 "emergency mail" (before commencing...
Lot #50522 - Philately > 1948 Early, Interim & Emergency mail
"Box 18 Johannesburg" mail: undated comm cv ex "Judges' Chambers Supreme Court" CAPE TOWN to Gershon Agron [founder/editor of] "Palestine Post" J'LEM; posted unstamped within an envelope to "Box 18" JO'BURG w/postage fee enclosed within, whereupon removed from outer envelope & sent via S. African Zionist Fed. a/m service to Palestine (parcels of letters sent as "Air Freight" on PAAC via...
Lot #50523 - Philately > 1948 Early, Interim & Emergency mail
GILGIL (Kenya) detention camp mail: stampless cv ex Revisionist detainee to family HAIFA, sent via S. African Zionist Fed. a/m service to Palestine (parcels of letters sent as "Air Freight" on PAAC via SUDAN to HAIFA, est. late April; from 7 May mail ex Gilgil detainees forwarded free of charge) & cv marked by their cachet "Per Postal Communication | Box 18 Johannesburg"; cv carried by...
Lot #50524 - Philately > 1948 Early, Interim & Emergency mail
Cyprus detention Camp 69: 26 AP 1948 cv on "Doar" a/m stationary (a/m crossed off) ex NICOSIA (r/a Famagusta German Refugee Camp) to HAIFA, franked 2Pia per period letter rate & tied by strike of local pmk + "Mail Camp 69" Heb. boxed cachet; surface mail to Palestine suspended by UK 6 April; Cyprus suspended a/m 20 April & all a/m to Pal. suspended on 26th: hence cv marked "SERVICE SUSPENDED...
Lot #50525 - Philately > 1948 Early, Interim & Emergency mail
Jewish Center couriered cv from Italy: 2 JULY 1948 cv ex MILAN to HERZLIYA "Palestine"; specially transmitted through local refugee resettlement center (at 5 Via Unione; source of clandestine emigration to Pal.) where franked w/undenominated Negev pipeline JNF label (K#935) & tied by dated Heb. box cachet "DELEGATION OFFICE | MILAN": this couriered to Israel where posted w/o additional postage - ...
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