Wartime incoming civilian mail: 8 X 1940 cv ex KOLOZSVAR (Klausenburg) Hungary to TLV, franked 40f per period surface rate to Pal.; passed T5 censor (Sach-21a) in TLV. Rare origin: locale occupied by Hungary (from Romania 11 Sept.), Hung. joins war 20 Nov. Slit open at top.
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 #50451LA - Philately > WWII Palestine military & civilian postal links
Lot #50452 - Philately > WWII Palestine military & civilian postal links
Australian postal service in Lebanon: 2 OC 1941 OAS airmail cv on Austr. Commonwealth Forces stationary ex FPO 28 (APS, BEIRUT) to BRISBANE, franked 9d (multiple franking) & tied by 4 strikes of pmk; w/officer endorsement at left & triangular censor 4416 h/s on front; sender among troops prior to transfer to TOBRUK. Cut open at left; frontal tear repaired. Scarce origin.
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Lot #50453 - Philately > WWII Palestine military & civilian postal links
Wartime air mail from Australia: 17 JAN 1941 reg. a/m cv ex MOUNT LAWLEY (Perth) to RLZ, franked 1Sh 9d & tied by 2 strikes of local pmk on front + 1x on back; opened/resealed by censor & cv tied by Censor 3 h/s; b/s same day REG WEST AUSTRALIA transit; as per franking, cv charged period 1S 1d rate to Palestine: carried locally via MMA to DALY WATERS, then via QANTAS to BRISBANE, via ANA to SYDNEY; then via QANTAS...
Lot #50454LA - Philately > WWII Palestine military & civilian postal links
Wartime incoming civilian mail: 26(?) MAR(?) 1941 cv ex Jewish(?) sender SANAA (no r/a) to "Your Excellency, Elkhwaga Y M Aemer Ikhwan" TLV (addressed in Ar. & Heb. in Yemenite-styled writing), franked 6 Boc. (back) per period surface rate & tied by strike of local pmk; passed censor 6 at ADEN (front); b/s 3 AP 1941 CAIRO transit + Egyptian civilian censor (front); probably sent by sea as opened/...
Lot #50455 - Philately > WWII Palestine military & civilian postal links
Australian forces in Palestine: 2 JUN 1941 cv ex 2nd Bde HQ PO W.2. (QASTINA) to bank J'LEM, as not marked "OAS", franked 15m (Ba108) - 5m overcharge for period domestic letter rate & tied by strike of W2 pmk (Proud rated 200); passed censor 1787 w/officer's signature on front; b/s 5 JU 41 GAZA trans (Dorf-6 predating his EKD of use by almost a year) & next day J'LEM arr. Slit open at...
Lot #50456 - Philately > WWII Palestine military & civilian postal links
Australian forces in Palestine/Middle East: well travelled surface mailed 6 SP 1941 (1939) Palestine postal stationary pc (Ba PC.9P) ex NAZARETH to a Lieut. Col. Garman of ACF (Austr. Commonw. Forces), pre-franked 8m per overseas rate (until Apr. 1940; now 13m/7m inland) & tied by 2 strikes of local pmk (Dorf-5); re-routed to "soldiers club" J'LEM where f/s 10 SP by civilian post & 16 SE by AIF FIELD PO 11 (Australian...
Lot #50457LA - Philately > WWII Palestine military & civilian postal links
Wartime incoming military mail: 6 JLY 1941 OAS a/m cv on Palestine-made "DOAR" firm a/m stationary ex Indian Army FPO 90 (ASMARA, Eritrea) to Barclays Bank J'LEM, franked 9a (back) per Indian air rate & tied by 3 strikes of FPO pmk + passed censor w/officer's endorsement (front); b/s 9 JLY 41 BASE OFFICE 2 (KHARTOUM) transit + DCFC cachet (Egypt?) on front; partly slit open at top. Rare origin...
Lot #50458 - Philately > WWII Palestine military & civilian postal links
Wartime civilian mail: 20 DE 1942 [a/m] cv ex ACRE (r/a on back) to director of "El-Tarbiah El-Hadthah" magazine CAIRO, franked 15m per 7 Jan 1942 airmail rate to Egypt (Bale unlisted) & tied by single strike of local pmk; opened/resealed in HAIFA by Sacher-unlisted PC66 label assigned to KK/33114; front marked by Egyptian civil censor on front (circle/M...
Lot #50459 - Philately > WWII Palestine military & civilian postal links
Wartime air mail from Trinidad: 25 MAR 1943 reg. a/m cv ex TRINIDAD to HAIFA, franked 86c (front/back) & tied by 3 strikes of local REGISTRATION GPO pmk on front + 1x on back; opened/resealed by Examiner 1572 - probably local as locale + Bermuda were 2 main censorship locations for Imperial international mail; lacking US transit marks, cv probably carried south by Pan-Am Carribean route via GEORGETOWN British Guyana (...
Lot #50460 - Philately > WWII Palestine military & civilian postal links
Wartime mail from Lebanon: 7 X 1942 surface mailed "Doar" (Palestine mfg) stationary cv ex BEYROUTH to HAIFA, franked 15Pia using sheet-segment of 15x stps & tied by multiple strikes of local pmk; passed Haifa H13 censor; slit open at top, vert. fold at left; lovely multiple franking.
Lot #50461LA - Philately > WWII Palestine military & civilian postal links
Wartime air mail from Iran: 26 X 1943 reg. a/m cv ex TEHERAN to HAIFA, franked (on back, covering most of r/a) 220D & tied by multiple strikes of local pmk; opened/resealed locally & tied by #4 Russian & #15 Eng. "Anglo-Soviet-Persian Censorship" h/s (front/back) + Persian "7" censor cachet (front); b/s 8 NOV 43 BAGHDAD REG transit & 15 NO 43 REG HAIFA arr.; slit open at left. Fairly...
Lot #50462 - Philately > WWII Palestine military & civilian postal links
Wartime incoming civilian mail: 16 XII 1943 cv ex BKERKI Lebanon (See of Maronite Catholic Patriarchate) to Maronite Patriarchal Agency JAFFA, franked 20P & tied by 2 strikes of local hexigonal pmk; b/s same day DJOUNIE transit & censored by Free French censor on front; open/resealed in TLV by KK/22748 (Sach-Q9); locally re-routed, cv tied by multiple strikes of oval bilingual "Maronite Patriarchal Vicarate Jaffa"...
Lot #50463 - Philately > WWII Palestine military & civilian postal links
Wartime air mail from Ethiopia: 3-3-1944 reg. a/m comm cv ex State Bank of Ethiopia to Barclays Bank HAIFA, franked 189 cent. using complete series 2nd Restoration definitives (Sc #250-257) per period rate (c. 70c for air service) & tied by 5 strikes of local pmk; airmail ex Ethiopia went via Egypt prior to ongoing transit, here marked by local civil censor (front); opened/resealed by KK/...
Lot #50464 - Philately > WWII Palestine military & civilian postal links
Wartime air mail from Panama: 4 SET 1944 business stationary reg. a/m comm. cv ex PANAMA CITY to HAIFA, franked 86c (front/back) & tied by 3 strikes of slogan AGENCIA POSTAL PANAMA pmk on front + 1x on back & tied by "Transatlantico" IM h/s on front; b/s next day BALBOA REGISTERED (Canal Zone, US terr.; exchange office) transit, SEP 6 1944 MIAMI AIR MAIL transit & SEP 8 MIAMI dispatch - here opened/sealed by...
Lot #50465 - Philately > WWII Palestine military & civilian postal links
Wartime suspended outbound civilian mail: 15 NO 1944 pc ex HAIFA to Soviet-occ. PLOVDIV Bulgaria franked 13m per period pc rate using Ba107 tied by single strike of local pmk; apparently written by Bulgarian-speaker & addressed by Eng. Speaker using ret. address "Spinneys" in Haifa. Checked by outbound TLV censor KK32. Marked in crayon "via Moscow" (USSR conquered Bulg. 8 Sept.) but as no...
Lot #50466 - Philately > WWII Palestine military & civilian postal links
Wartime incoming civilian mail: 11 XII 1944 pp'd Vatican City stationary pc ex VC to TLV, with short greeting from "Yitzhak" (probably in Jewish Brigade), tied by local machine cancel; stamped by "M" DC Arabic/Eng. censor in Egypt & Palestine censor (probably TLV); unusual origin.
Lot #50467 - Philately > WWII Palestine military & civilian postal links
Wartime incoming civilian mail / Detention Camps: 22 FEB 1945 reg. cv ex ROUSSE Bulgaria to "Camp 5"/JERUSALEM, franked 20 Leva & tied by 3 strikes of local pmk; b/s 27-2-45 ISTANBUL(?); opened & passed Palestine censor; b/s REG J'LEM (most missing as flap tip torn off) but re-routed: 9 MR 45 JAFFA-REGISTERED (GD-26) arr. Cut open at top, piece missing front. As postal...
Lot #50468 - Philately > WWII Palestine military & civilian postal links
Wartime air mail from Belgian Congo: 11-10-1945 reg. a/m cv ex LEOPOLDVILLE to HAIFA, franked 32F & tied by 2 strikes of local pmk; as marked m/s "via Lagos", cv transported via BOAC to LAGOS, then probably to LONDON (as no Egyptian censor marks on cv) & from there to Palestine; b/s 2[8]? OC 45 REG HAIFA transit & same day HADAR HACARMEL BO arr.; as cv not locally censored (as was...
Lot #50469LA - Philately > WWII Red Cross, internee, POW & Holocaust mail
Holocaust mail via Red Cross: 8-12-1941 dated Palestinian bilingual Eng./Ger. British Red Cross "Postal Message Scheme" form (12.11.41 ed) ex HAIFA to TARNOW "Occupied Poland", inquiring about condition of sender's parents; passed H17 censor in Haifa (Sach-Q23, 1 month before his EKD of use); f/s 31 DEC 1941 transit at IRC in GENEVA & forwarded to Polish Red Cross & received in WARSAW 13 MARZ 1942 (f/...
Lot #50470 - Philately > WWII Red Cross, internee, POW & Holocaust mail
Wartime domestic Red Cross mail: 11 FEB 1941 Br. RC Palestine Branch stationary cv ex J'LEM to TLV pre-paid 2m at special printed matter rate for bodies registered at GPO & tied by red POSTAGE PAID (Sach-E15) pmk; re-routed locally; unsealed per pm regulations.
Lot #50471 - Philately > WWII Red Cross, internee, POW & Holocaust mail
WWII POW mail: 22.11.1944 "Kriegsgefangenpost" pc ex Jewish-Palestinian soldier at "Stammlager IV-D" (Main Camp 4-D) [TORGAU] to HAIFA, tied by camp censor h/s & mute DR DC; passed Deputy Chief Field Censor [Egypt]; msg dated Nov. 15 '44; vert. fold. Locale was small camp ex printing factory, est. May 1941 & housing c. 800 POWs.
Lot #50472 - Philately > WWII Red Cross, internee, POW & Holocaust mail
Wartime incoming Red Cross mail: 8 XI 1939 stampless IRCC POW-CIA communication-receipt pc (in En.) ex GENEVA to TLV, tied by express-letter pmk & slogan cachet; passed T16 Pal. censor in TLV - this v. rare as Sacher lists it's use only between 27-28 Nov. 1939 (and this recorded for outbound use only). Case number handwritten on front; red Fr. IRC 3-line text h/s on back...
Lot #50473 - Philately > WWII Red Cross, internee, POW & Holocaust mail
Wartime Red Cross mail: unused IRC Prisoner of War Information Center pre-paid contact postcard (in Fr.), for inquiring on whereabouts of captured relative; addressed to GENEVA; form code P. 10.027.
Lot #50474 - Philately > WWII Red Cross, internee, POW & Holocaust mail
Wartime incoming Jewish civilian mail / internee mail: undated (c. 1942) stampless a/m stationary cv ex "campo di concentramento" [internment camp] FERRAMONTI TI TARSIA to SHA'AR HA'AMAKIM via HAIFA, sent as free POW mail & marked "message in Croatian"; tied by red camp cachet & scarce 2 line "civilian internee mail via SOFIA-ISTANBUL" cachet on front (route per 1942 agreement w/It. govt); censored & sealed in...
Lot #50475 - Philately > WWII Red Cross, internee, POW & Holocaust mail
Prisoner of War mail: 12-9-1942 stampless pp Italian POW correspondence card in En. ex "CONCENTRAMENTO 21" (Chieti) Italy to Barclays Bank HAIFA; marked by Italian numbered & DCF-C censor marks (all It. censorship done in Rome) + EN "avoid delays in censorship" IM h/s; arr. 9.2.43 & received 11/2 (manuscript). Per 1942 arrangement w/Italian govt., such mail sent via Chiasso, Hungary or Bulgaria,...
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