Historama Autumn Mail Auction #5

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 transport of sea mail for the Israel Post, exclusively until Nov. 1952): this & other cv's in shipment were pp'd to shipping co., who uniquely stamped them w/bilingual Eng./Heb. circular h/s "KEDEM" Palestine Line LTD - T/S/S KEDMAH (here 2x full strikes; one tied to Fr. franks) & affixed 10m frank before depositing the mail in Israel for posting, here tied by 15.6.1948 HAIFA HPO pmk (eg. same date as resumption sea mail w/France). This was ship's 1st delivery of mail since 24 May, and only incoming sea mail to Israel since. Illustr. IFPL p. 139.