Historama Autumn Mail Auction #5

1948-49 War Syrian airlink with Palestine: 7 JAN 1949 pp'd airletter ex LONG ISLAND CITY to J'LEM "Palestine", pre-franked 10c per period rate & tied by local machine cancel; as such not routed to ISRAEL & instead via SYRIA which maintained air-link to Pal. via JORDAN except when interrupted by the war, Jan-Mar 1949 ("Israel"-bound mail would have been left to Jordan to handle): here b/s [unclear] 1949 DAMASCUS transit where marked by rare 3-line Fr. lang. "Return to Origin | Communication with Palestine | Interrupted" IM h/s K-Type-I & RTS. Less than 5 covers known such marked - this earliest known date of use per pmk date (est. Damascus arr. 12 Jan).