Mandate postal markings: 7 DE 1934 stampless local J'LEM OHMS cv ex Criminal Investigation Dept. to Chief Rabbi Yaakov Meir, tied by Sacher unlisted dated red circular CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION DEPARTMENT | HQ | PALESTINE POLICE cachet + "certified official" IM h/s & strike of local pmk; unsealed. R. Meir was the first Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Palestine, from 1921 w/est. of Chief Rabbinate...
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 #50427LA - Philately > Mandate postmarks, postal markings & stationary
Safed: 14 NO 1947 full strike of rare SC "SAFAD" DS w/o Maltese Cross base (Dorf-13, rated F+) tied to Mandate Post PT 512 parcel posting receipt (to addressee in Brazil); est. val. $200+
Lot #50428LA - Philately > Mandate postmarks, postal markings & stationary
Jewish soldier's mail: 9 JY 1944 stampless "honour envelope" orig. w/Heb. corres. ex FPO 655 (ABBASSIA, Egypt) to KIBBUTZ MERHAVIA, tied by strike of FPO pmk & b/s same day #4 Base PO "EGYPT POSTAGE PREPAID" machine slogan cancel "It Pays to Lend" (Proud-D, 16 months after his LKD of use - here w/wide datehead left, sm. d/h right, this unrecorded); marked on front by numbered & DCFC...
Lot #50429LA - Philately > Mandate postmarks, postal markings & stationary
Mandate postal stationary: 7-10-1941 dated PT 20 trilingual form requesting fee due for short-paid telegram (to Bombay), miscalculated at 406 mils rather than 434 mils & requesting enclosure of payment to the bearer of the form; printer serial ending 24.11.39.B.M.P - this unlisted in Groten / usage period post-dates Groten's listed PT20 by 3 years.
Lot #50430 - Philately > Mandate postal history
Mixed franking w/double overprint cv: 18 MR 1928 reg. cv ex TIBERIAS to HAIFA, franked 18m per period rate using 1m London II (plate B) w/double ovpt (Ba 71c) & 4m (Ba 74) + 13m Pictoral (Ba 98) & tied by 3 strikes of local pmk Dorf-3; b/s same day REG HAIFA arr. (GD-55); wax sealed at back, slit open at top (top left flap tip missing). Extremely rare franking & combination: [from...
Lot #50431 - Philately > Mandate postal history
Provisional registered envelope: 16 DE 1924 small prov. RE (1922 issue, Ba PR.4-S - Greek Convent Press issue) ex J'LEM to LONDON, franked 2.13Pia per period rate (1pia letter rate abroad + 13m reg. fee + 9m add. 20g; 2m overcharge) using mix of 2Pia London I (Ba66) + 13m London II (Ba79), tied by 3 strikes of REG J'LEM pmk on front + 1 on back; f/s DE 24 REG LONDON arr.; top of reverse...
Lot #50432 - Philately > Mandate postal history
Mandatory postal links: 24 JL 1945 express reg. cv on business stationary ex AMMAN to Lloyd Ltd. J'LEM, franked 50m & tied by 3 strikes of oval AMMAN REG. pmk + 2 on back; passed Jordanian censor (sexagonal bilingual PASSED BY CENSOR/B-41 h/s on front); b/s 30 JL 45 REG. J'LEM arr.; cut open at bottom. Scarce origin & rate.
Lot #50433 - Philately > Mandate postal history
Cable-car mail: 2.11.32 uprated pc ex EBENSEE Austria to AFFULA, pre-franked 18g + 10g applied & tied by DS + cable-car cancellation; re-routed locally to Poste Restante in J'LEM (and Hebrew "Jerusalem" added on front). Unusual origin.
Lot #50434 - Philately > Mandate postal history
Post Anschluss incoming mail: 29.1.39 airmail cv on Central Zionist Union of Vienna stationary ex VIENNA to HAIFA, franked 45pf using German Hindenburg franks (last date for privately held Austran franks was 31 Dec. '38; thereafter devalued), for 25pf overseas airmail + 15pf for additional 20g weight; tied by 2 strikes of local pmk; back-flap missing. The local Jewish community's activities were shut down...
Lot #50435LA - Philately > Mandate postal history
Wartime shipping schedule changes: 26-27 Sept. 1939 notice of schedule changes for m/n Calitea & s.s. Galilea of the Adriatica Societa An. di Navigazione company; the Calitea's departure ex Haifa for 26 Sept. was cancelled without further notice & Galilea's departure ex Haifa was moved up a day from the 27th to the 26th. The shipping firm (founded 1932) had been contracted by the...
Lot #50436 - Philately > Mandate postal history
Anschluss period incoming mail: 26 VI 1938 reg cv on "Eretz Israel Office" stationary ex VIENNA to Technion HAIFA, franked 148g per period rate using Austrian franks: as of 4 April value of franking using Groschen values was to be converted into Reichpfenning at rate of 1Rpf = 1½Gr; with a/m etiquette. Scarce period rate & Austrian-only franking: as of 25 April Austrian currency no longer legal tender; as...
Lot #50437LA - Philately > Mandate postal history
Lot 35x cvs mostly Mandate, few Israel & local Jewish Chilean; many Rabbinic or to Jewish/Zionist institutions; incl. compulsory reg., taxed cv's, cv ex TLV Chief Rabbi Unterman on his stationary (probably in his handwriting), wrappers, 1936 cv ex DAMASCUS to J'LEM via HAIFA, 28 NOV 1948 "commercial paper" (Hebrew IM) cv ex HAIFA (scarce IM), 1938 Mandate OHMS cv; cv's to...
Lot #50438LA - Philately > Mandate postal history
Lot 26x cvs, 7x docs/forms & 6x stamps: mostly Mandate & few Israel, incl. Mandate postal & govt. stationary forms; covers to Jewish charities (Ozar HaChessed & Meir Baal HaNess) - various stationary/cachets; pre-War European postal links (Poland, Lith., Austria; many ex Jewish org's); 1908 reg. wrapper ex US to Austria; Oct. 1944 Br. milit. RE to TLV; 1948...
Lot #50439 - Philately > WWII Palestine military & civilian postal links
Wartime outbound civilian mail: Sept-Oct 1939 comm cv on Etz Hayim Yeshiva stationary (marked "return postage guaranteed") ex JERUSALEM to SILUTE "Lithuania", missing frank (probably Ba108 15m for surface rate) which removed; as of 23-03-39 locale part of German-annexed Memelland (not Lithuania), hence processed by Wehrmacht censor ("Auslandsbriefprüfstelle | Königsberg (Pr)") which approved it (straight line "Von der...
Lot #50440 - Philately > WWII Palestine military & civilian postal links
Eve of WWI incoming civilian mail: 20 VII 1939 ppc of Kaunas (Kovno) in Hebrew-written Yiddish, ex KOVNO to "Plugat Beitar" ROSH PINNA, franked 35ct & tied by full strike of local pmk; f/s 31 JY 39 arr. & locally re-routed to MISHMAR HAYARDEN. Possibly mailed by air as transit time so short. The "Beitar Companies" were units of Beitar movement volunteers engaged in agriculture and building activities...
Lot #50441 - Philately > WWII Palestine military & civilian postal links
Wartime incoming Jewish refugee mail: 29 SEP 1939 uprated UPU stationary pc in Eng. ex BANEASA (r/a Bucharest) to TLV, pre-franked 6L + 22L additional (probably express fee as 7L was period pc rate to Pal.); passed by scarce T4 Pal. censor in TLV (in use only Sep-Dec '39). Sender is refugee ex Warsaw who flew(!) to Romania [to flee the...
Lot #50442 - Philately > WWII Palestine military & civilian postal links
Wartime incoming civilian mail: 22 XI 1939 postal stationary pc in German ex LIEPAJA (Libau) Latvia to TLV, pre-franked 20c & tied by single strike of local pmk - unusually not marked by Palestine censor. Six weeks earlier (5 Oct.), Latvia forced into pact with USSR which paved way for latter's occupation of former, Jul. 1940.
Lot #50443 - Philately > WWII Palestine military & civilian postal links
Wartime incoming civilian mail: 8 II 1940 uprated airmail pc in French (family corres.) ex THESSALONIKI to TLV, pre-franked 5d + 13d additional for a/m, tied by 2 strikes of local pmk + Greek a/m etiquette; pc tied by what may be DC local Jewish community cachet in Greek; passed T6 Pal. censor (Sach-Q21a). Scarce origin.
Lot #50444 - Philately > WWII Palestine military & civilian postal links
Wartime incoming Jewish refugee mail: 26-4-1940 uprated airmail pc in Polish ex TRIESTE (r/a poste restante) to TLV, pre-franked 75c + 50c additional for a/m (via Ala Littoria - etiquette attached) & tied by 2 strikes of local [air mail] pmk; passed T5 Pal. censor in TLV. Posted 6 weeks before Italy entered the war (10 June) and A/L air service unavailable.
Lot #50445LA - Philately > WWII Palestine military & civilian postal links
Wartime incoming Jewish refugee mail: 26 IV 1940 reg cv in Polish on hotel stationary ex KAUNAS (Kovno) to addressee c/o sports org. "Mercaz HaMakabi" TLV, franked 1.20L per period int'l surf. rate & tied by 2 strikes of local pmk; passed T12 Pal. censor (Sach-Q21a) in TLV, 14 MY 40 REG TLV transit & next day Allenby Rd BO arr.; gently opened at back, minor tear to right flap tip. Probably sent by recent refugee ex...
Lot #50446 - Philately > WWII Palestine military & civilian postal links
Wartime air mail from Chile / outbreak of WWII in West: 6 MAY 1940 reg. airletter ex SANTIAGO to HAIFA, franked 15.10P & tied by 2 strikes of local a/m pmk; as tied by special 10th anniversary (12 May) Air France south-Atlantic flight boxed cachet (on 10 May Germany invaded France & Lowlands; AF ceased operations in June), cv carred by AF on weekly wartime route BUENOS AIRES - MONTEVIDEO - PORTO...
Lot #50447LA - Philately > WWII Palestine military & civilian postal links
Wartime incoming Jewish refugee mail: 28 V 1940 uprated pc ex BAGNÈRES-DE-LUCHON to REHOVOT, written in Hebrew-lettered Yiddish, pre-franked 1.20Fr + 25c frank, tied by local pmk + slogan cachet; passed Palestine censor (possibly in Haifa). Message written day before; day before that began evacuation of Allied troops at Dunkirk; locale located at southernmost edge of border w/Spain. Ger. campaign against Fr....
Lot #50448 - Philately > WWII Palestine military & civilian postal links
Wartime incoming civilian mail: 24 VI 1940 pc ex BUDAPEST to TLV (post restante) in Hungarian, franked 24f & tied by Horthy airmail postcard slogan cachet; checked by T.5 Censor in TLV (Sach-Q21a) & tied by 12 JY 1940 TLV arr (Sach-B45); re-routed to "clearance camp Athlit" (detention camp for illegal Jewish immigrants, i.e. refugees) where received next day (m/script). Hungary not part of Axis until...
Lot #50449 - Philately > WWII Palestine military & civilian postal links
"Shanghai Ghetto" mail: 11.7.1940 uprated pp'd pc ex Jap.-occ. SHANGHAI to HAIFA, in German on Chinese postal stationary, franked 30c & tied by 2 strikes of local pmk; maked on front by Egyptian civil censor & Haifa H29 + H22 censors (former preceeds Sacher's EKD of use by 8 months); Jewish refugees arrived in locale as early as 1933. Vert. fold at center.
Lot #50450LA - Philately > WWII Palestine military & civilian postal links
Wartime incoming civilian/Rabbinic mail: 19 JUL 1940 uprated pc in Hungarian ex MAKO Hungary to Chief Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky, J'LEM, franked 20f at period rate & tied by strike of local pmk; passed J4 Pal. censor (Sach-Q21a) in J'LEM & stamped w/scarce 3-line boxed "Please request sender..." full name/address IM (Sach Q42 - predates his Oct 1940 EKD of use), here...
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