Historama Autumn Mail Auction #5

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 2001] Ba catalogues #71c on cv at $2500; mixed EEF & Pictorals franking virtually unobtainable (c. 10 cv's known) and not listed in catalogues: London II Plate B last issued April 1927, 13m Pictorals entered use 1 July. Very fine, ex Sorani coll. - signed by him & Tsachor; est. value $4-5000++