Auction #47

Courier cv from the JNF Office - Geneva franked w/JNF Blue Ussishkin label (K#528) tied to cv by Geneva Office biling. cachet + handstamped 23 MAI 1948 which is the date these cvs were given to the courier (who was the proprietor of the TLV Patra travel agency and unexpectedly stopped in Geneva on his way to Rome to board on the CSA flight of 25 May that arrived in Haifa on 26 May). Cv posted w/D. Ivri 10m stp tied by Israeli pmk TEL-AVIV 28.5.1948, also applied was the "PATRA" handstamp on front & back; roughly opened at top, still fine & Very Rare, certif Tsachor - Aloni, see IFPL p. 120 fig. 6-3 for similar cv