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 ...
HISTORAMA AUCTION #7 - 'Buy or Bid' Sale
By: Historama
Historama HISTORAMA AUCTION #7 - 'Buy or Bid' Sale
Monday 8-04-2019 Timed Sale at Bidspirit.com @ 19:15 Israel-time | LOTS #1-579
Numismatics | Judaic Tokens & Medals | Banknotes | Arabiana | Israeliana | Judaica | Militaria | Ephemera
Tuesday 9-04-2019 @ 20:00 Israel-time | LOTS #580-1313
Stamps | Postal History | Philately | Paraphilately | Philatelic Documents
Welcome you to our 7th auction, this being our first in the format of a 'Buy or Bid' sale, where lots may be bid-on or purchased outright; there are over 1300 attractive lots on offer. The sale features items in every one of our areas of specialty, and is probably the largest (and best) selection of Judaic, Holyland and Israeli collectibles for sale anywhere at this time. Featured subjects include ancient & modern coins; Jewish tokens & medals; Jewish, Mandate & Israeli militaria; World War II collaborationist and Holocaust-related militaria; loose & affixed stamps of the Holyland, Egypt and the JNF; postal history of all periods and across all themes and subjects from the Holyland, Mandate, Israel, the Palestinian Authority & near east, as well as worldwide wartime (WWI / WWII) civilian and military mail (from 'horseshoe' and pre-'horseshoe route' mail to post-Third Reich 'uberroller' & displaced persons mail), mail of the Arab-Israeli conflict & 'postkrieg', Hijack/Terror mail + American Civil War Confederate States of America philately - a new subject area for us (students of Israeli & Interim postal history - unusual routes, special rates & key dates - will recognize many similar characteristics to their CSA counterpart); plus Judaica, Israeliana, Arabiana, banknotes and other areas of interest. There are many unique and 'discovery' items in this sale, and many fascinating objects both old and contemporary worth your attention.
The sale itself is divided into 2 parts, one covering non-philatelic fields (lots 1 - 579), and one covering philately (lots 580 - 1313). The period between now and the published 'end times' of the two parts of sale functions as a 'pre-sale' period: during this time lots may be bid on in a standard mail auction manner (bids submitted in writing) or through the online auction program, or be purchased outright. The published opening bid prices are the minimum bid prices, and the buyout prices (displayed below the lot descriptions) are mostly set 50% above the opening bid levels (traditionally "best" bids, which win a lot even before an auction's end are set to 3x the opening bid price). These "buy it now" prices are dynamic: they will rise by 5-10% for every bid received on a lot once the current bid level passes the midway point between the starting bid price and the original buyout price - please visit our home site historama.com/auctions or contact us for the updated buy-out prices. This is not intended to take advantage of interest in a lot but rather to avoid discouraging bidders from continuing to bid on an item of interest. As of now, at the end of the pre-sale period for Part 1 of the sale (non-philatelic items), available lots will be offered for sale in a timed live sale on our page at Bidspirit.com; Part 2 (philately) will run as a mail auction until the published end date and time, with 5 minute time-extensions if bids are received in the last minute of the sale (or time extension).
Once the sale is over it will take a few days to issue official "winner" notifications. Please bear with us, as the more broadly the sale is displayed and the more people participate, the more complex the process of collating all the bids from various sources and actioning special requests. The winner notification email contains a link to our automated checkout on the site - and this process generates the invoice. Please check your "spam" folder for the mail (from "historama-auctions") if it doesn't reach your inbox within 2-3 days of the sale's end. Unsold lots will be available for direct purchase after the sale - but may be displayed at a higher price than the opening bid levels for the sale: we do this to discourage fence-sitting during the sale; the opening bid prices are competitively set in order to encourage bidding. Here I should emphasize that the opening bid prices are not a reflection of our evaluation of a lot’s worth: where possible I have added an estimated value at the end of a product description, but a low starting price should not be construed as a lack of understanding of a lot’s worth.
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Lot #878 - PH: WWII Civilian Postal Links
Wartime WWII/Holocaust-era Jewish civilian internee mail: 9.7.1942 stampless cover on air mail stationary from AVELLINO Italy to HAIFA, manuscript marked "Prisoner of War Post | Civilian Wartime Internee Post" & tied by local postmark + local police headquarters cachet on front and Italian double-ringed censor inspection cachet on back; passed British military censor (...
Lot #879 - PH: WWII Civilian Postal Links
Wartime outbound civilian mail: 23 NO 1942 registered life insurance document with Avis Receipt service (manuscript) from Levantine branch of 'La Nationale' French insurance business TEL AVIV to deputy chief of military infirmary section BEIRUT franked 30m (15m registration fee + 15m AR - but lacking at least 3m for printed matter; not taxed) using pair Ba108 tied by REG TEL AVIV postmark...
Lot #880 - PH: WWII Civilian Postal Links
Wartime mail from Lebanon: 7 X 1942 surface mailed "Doar" (Palestine made) stationary cover from 'American Junior College for Women' BEIRUT to HAIFA, franked 15Pia using sheet-segment of 15x stamps & tied by multiple strikes of local postmark; passed Haifa H13 censor; slit open at top, vertical fold at left; lovely multiple franking.
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Lot #881 - PH: WWII Civilian Postal Links
Wartime air mail from Trinidad: 25 MAR 1943 registered airmail cover from PORT-OF-SPAIN Trinidad to HAIFA, franked 86c (front/back) & tied by 3 strikes of local REGISTRATION General Post Office postmark on front + 1x on back; opened/resealed by Examiner 1572 - probably local as Trinidad + Bermuda were 2 main censorship locations for Imperial international mail & tied by Trinidad "IE" censor mark;...
Lot #882 - PH: WWII Civilian Postal Links
Wartime incoming Jewish refugee mail: 25-12-1943 surface mailed cover from ISTANBUL (no return address) to BAT YAM, franked 10k & tied by strike of local postmark on front + machine cancel on back; opened by Palestine Censor KK/23346 (Sacher Q9 type - this unlisted) & stamped twice by "Please request sender..." full name/address 4-line TEL AVIV-type Sach-Q52...
Lot #883 - PH: WWII Civilian Postal Links
Triple censored wartime outbound civilian mail: 18 AP 1943 commercial cover on Solel Boneh stationary from TEL AVIV to Hotel des Narcisses in MONTREUX Switzerland, franked 15m (10m letter + 6m additional weight, underfranked 1m) & tied by 2 strikes of local postmark. Opened 3 times by 2 censoring authorities (British Palestine censor, UK censor probably in London & German censor - per...
Lot #884 - PH: WWII Civilian Postal Links
Wartime incoming civilian mail: 8 VI 1943 airmail cover from LUGANO to JERUSALEM, franked 50Rp (40Rp total postage for 5gr including 10Rp for airmail + 10Rp additional weight) and marked for intended start of routing (rectangular cachet on front): Zurich to Stuttgart (where censored) by Swissair or DHL, by air from Stuttgart to Sofia, by rail to Istanbul, rail to Syria and...
Lot #885 - PH: WWII Civilian Postal Links
Wartime air mail from Ethiopia: 3-3-1944 registered airmail commercial cover from State Bank of Ethiopia ADDIS ABABA to Barclays Bank HAIFA, franked 189 cent. using complete series 2nd Restoration definitives (Sc #250-257) per postage period rate (c. 70c for air service + registration fee) & tied by 5 strikes of local postmark + bank's circular cachet on back; airmail from Ethiopia went via Egypt prior to...
Lot #886 - PH: WWII Civilian Postal Links
Wartime air mail from Panama: 4 SET 1944 business stationary registered airmail commercial cover from PANAMA CITY to HAIFA, franked 86c (front/back) & tied by 3 strikes of slogan AGENCIA POSTAL PANAMA postmark on front + 1x on back & tied by "Transatlantico" instructional marking handstamp on front; backstamped next day BALBOA REGISTERED (Canal Zone, US territory; exchange office)...
Lot #887 - PH: WWII Civilian Postal Links
Wartime suspended outbound civilian mail: 15 NO 1944 postcard from HAIFA to Soviet-occupied PLOVDIV Bulgaria franked 13m per period postcard rate using Ba107 tied by single strike of local postmark; apparently written by Bulgarian-speaker & addressed by English speaker using return address of "Spinneys" business in Haifa. Checked by outbound TEL AVIV censor KK32 (unusual...
Lot #888 - PH: WWII Civilian Postal Links
WWII/Holocaust-era POW mail: 24.11.1944 stampless "Kriegsgefangenpost" postcard in English from Jewish-Palestinian soldier at "Stammlager IV-D" (Stalag IV-D) [TORGAU] to HAIFA, tied by camp shield-shaped censor handstamp (Geprüft 28 Stammlager IV-D) & mute double-ring date-stamp; passed Deputy Chief Field Censor [Egypt]; message dated 15 Nov. 1944 (odd delay in dispatch); vertical fold....
Lot #889 - PH: WWII Civilian Postal Links
Wartime incoming civilian mail: 11 XII 1944 pre-paid Vatican City stationary postcard from VATICAN CITY to TEL AVIV, with short Hebrew greeting from "Yitzhak" (probably a soldier in the Jewish Brigade), tied by local machine cancel; stamped by "M" DC Arabic/Eng. censor in Egypt & Palestine censor (probably TEL AVIV); unusual origin - possibly related to a 'Papal Audience...
Lot #890 - PH: WWII Civilian Postal Links
Mandatory postal links: 26 FE 1945 cover from MAABAROT to Jewish addressee ("Levi") in EDIRNE Turkey, franked 20m per period non-UK overseas surface rate & tied by full strike of local postmark; opened & sealed in TEL AVIV by censor KK/25835 (predates Sacher earliest known date of use by 2 months); marked by Turkish censor on front; backstamp covered by censor's tape - probably TEL AVIV transit; cut...
Lot #891 - PH: WWII Civilian Postal Links
Wartime incoming civilian mail / Detention Camps: 22 FEB 1945 registered cover from ROUSSE Bulgaria to "Camp 5"/JERUSALEM, franked 20 Leva & tied by 3 strikes of local postmark; backstamped 27-2-45 ISTANBUL(?) transit; opened & passed Palestine censor in JERUSALEM KK/27788 (Sacher unlisted) & tied by octogonal handstamp KK/3 (Sach-Q22); backstamped REG JERUSALEM (most missing as...
Lot #892 - PH: WWII Civilian Postal Links
Germany 1945 "Überroller" mail: 9-3-1945 business stationary cover from medical business HAMBURG to city hospital DORTMUND, franked 10pf per period rate using Hitler definitive stamp & tied by machine cancel; appears to have passed a domestic German censor (mute circular cachet on front) but further transmission ceased & processing of the mail resumed with the American...
Lot #893 - PH: WWII Civilian Postal Links
Germany 1945 "Überroller" mail abroad: 9-3-1945 business stationary cover from fur-hat business LAUTERBACH to business in STOCKHOLM (Sweden), franked 25pf per period surface mail rate to Europe using the firm's slogan-meter cancel; cover front-stamped next day transit in locale's postal system & marked at back by numbered circular censor cachet - but further transmission ceased...
Lot #894 - PH: WWII Civilian Postal Links
Postwar incoming civilian mail: 29 V 1945 registered postcard in Russian on Polish postal stationary from Mariam Berlas STRYI Poland to Jewish soldier (Erus Schutzer) in 468 Palestine Company Royal Army Service Corps General Transport (HAIFA), franked 40Kop (but uncancelled - no dispatch postmark on the postcard) & marked by 2x different registry handstamps (one Polish & one Soviet);...
Lot #895 - PH: WWII Civilian Postal Links
Postwar incoming civilian mail: 29 V 1945 registered postcard in English on Polish postal stationary from Mariam Berlas STRYI Poland to Jewish soldier (Erus Schutzer) in 468 Palestine Company Royal Army Service Corps General Transport (HAIFA), franked 20kop (damaged) & tied by local postmark; passed Soviet military censor & H12 Palestine censor (Sach-Q22 - 3 years...
Lot #896 - PH: WWII Civilian Postal Links
Postwar incoming civilian mail (triple re-routed): 30 MAY 1946 uprated postcard in Polish(?) on Polish postal stationary from Mariam Berlas SŁUPSK to Jewish soldier (Erus Schutzer) in 179 Palestine Company Royal Army Service Corps General Transport UDINE Italy, pre-franked 1.50L (additional 1.50L frank removed at top); backstamped 15 JY 46 BAPO 15 (NAPLES) transit - ...
Lot #897 - PH: WWII Civilian Postal Links
Postwar incoming civilian mail: 31-5-1946 uprated postcard in Russian on Polish postal stationary from Mariam Berlas SŁUPSK Poland to Jewish soldier (Erus Schutzer) in 179 Palestine Company Royal Army Service Corps General Transport (possibly HAIFA), with pre-printed frank of 1.50Zł + additional 1.50Zł attached & tied by 2 strikes of local postmark. Marked possibly by Polish censor. At...
Lot #898 - PH: WWII Civilian Postal Links
Postwar outbound civilian mail: 25 SP 1945 airmail cover from TEL AVIV to LVOV addressed in Latin and Cyrillic letters, franked 70m using Ba97/100 & tied by 2 strikes of local postmark; backstamped Soviet military censor & 6-12-45 arrival - but as addressee "left" (in war periods this is an ominous marking), marked by French language instructional handstamp "RETOUR | PARTI", and returned to sender....
Lot #899 - PH: WWII Civilian Postal Links
Postwar air mail from Belgian Congo: 11-10-1945 registered airmail family correspondence cover from LEOPOLDVILLE to HAIFA, franked 32F & tied by 2 strikes of local postmark; as manuscript marked "via Lagos", cover transported via BOAC to LAGOS, then probably to LONDON (as no Egyptian censor marks on cover) & from there to Palestine; backstamped 2[8]? OC 45 REG HAIFA transit & same day HADAR...
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