Historama Autumn Mail Auction #5

Egyptian postal boycott of Israel: 15 SEP 1948 a/m cv ex EAST FINCHLEY (UK) to KFAR PINES (via KARKUR), franked 6d & tied by local machine cancel + same day LONDON F.S. ("Foreign Section") dispatch; as address didn't include country name, this [mis-] routed via EGYPT where censored - uniquely - in ALEXANDRIA (rather than Cairo) using K-Type3 ("Mim") h/s, where country-name "Palestine" added - and returned to sender without being opened for inspection - this also unique; cv re-sent & b/s'd 8-10-1948 KARKUR arr. Remarkably fast turn-around time; postal relations between UK & Israel began 22 July.