HISTORAMA AUCTION #7 - 'Buy or Bid' Sale

Wartime outgoing mail (undercover address): 24 FE 1942 surface mailed cover from JERUSALEM to ISTANBUL, franked 15m (3 color franking) per period surface mail rate & tied by 2 strikes of single-circle local postmark; passed J30 Palestine censor; backstamped 2-3-1942 ANKARA transit (suggesting inland transport by rail, not sea) & 4 March arrival Cut open at top. The curious brevity of addressee's name, also being British(?) + post office box address in neutral country suggests that this was an undercover address and possibly addressed to a code name, but so far not documented. Locale was known as major center of spying and intrigue in WWII.
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This lot is being offered in a buy or bid sale format, whose initial buyout price is: $74. This price will rise by about 5-10% for every new bid received once the bid level passes the midway mark between the starting bid price and the initial buyout price. In such cases please check the latest buyout price on our homesite or contact us.
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Product Tags: Turkish, Mandatory Palestinian Philately - Postal Covers, WWII era Postal Links and Postal History from Turkey, Palestine Mandate and from World War II, Holocaust, 20th Century, 1940s, which are Philately - Censored Mail, Philately - Significant Addresses/Persons,