Worldwide Stamps and Covers OETA South (Palestine) Palestine Mandate
Sale No: 7
Lot No: 816
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Palestine Mandate.Small locales / Mandate postmarks: 5 MY 1919 cover from SAFED to LUZERN franked at period 1 Pia rate using Ba10 stamp tied by rare SAFED OETA postmark Dorf-2 (rated E+ of I); handstamped by boxed EPC Egyptian Postal Censorship cachet FB-EPC21; backstamped 11 MA 19 CAIRO transit; slit open at top. Estimated value $150+ --------------------
This lot is being offered in a buy or bid sale format, whose initial buyout price is: $54. 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. --------------------
Product Tags: Mandatory Palestinian, Swiss, Egyptian, Philately - Postal Covers, Postmarks & Postal Markings - Mandate and Postal History from Palestine Mandate, Switzerland, Egypt, and from OETA South (Palestine), 20th Century, 1910s, 1919-1923 3rd Aliya, which are Philately - significant cachets & postal markings
Spain.Jerusalem O.E.T. numbered censorship cover double rarity/discovery piece: Sept 1919 registered cover from ZARAGOZA Spain to JERUSALEM whose franking since removed, backstamped 14 SEP 19 MADRID & 29 IX 19 ALEXANDRIA transits - here opened by Egypt. Civil censor & resealed with FB-CCL4aii label and tied front/back by undocumented black oval "O.E.T. No 4 CENSORSHIP" cachet (extremely rare as only 4 other such cachets known but not this number - per Firebrace) - this possibly added in Sinai or Palestine (as Egypt not part of "Occupied Enemy Territory"); backstamped 4 OC 19 arrival using undocumented OETA EEF [JERUSALEM] postmark note right-tilting position of "A" over index letter, not as in Sacher); opened at top, few peripheral tears near top. --------------------
This lot is being offered in a buy or bid sale format, whose initial buyout price is: $299. 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. --------------------
Product Tags: Spanish, Mandatory Palestinian, Egyptian, Philately - Postal Covers, Postmarks & Postal Markings - Mandate and Postal History from Spain, Palestine Mandate, Egypt, and from OETA South (Palestine), 20th Century, 1910s, 1919-1923 3rd Aliya, which are Philately - significant cachets & postal markings, Philately - Censored Mail, Unique/Discovery Piece, Philately - uncatalogued/undocumented varieties
