Palestine Mandate. Palestine/Switzerland: 20th Zionist Congress delegate's pin, (1937); nickel(?); manufactured by Moshe Moro of Jerusalem; size: 19.5mm x 22.5mm; weight: 5g. Square shield shaped pin depicting the official emblem of the congress (a Hebrew letter "Kaf" whose numerical value is "20"), with Star of David in right corner and Hebrew legend above "The Zionist Congress". On reverse, a safety pin and Moro's mark. The 20th Zionist Congress took place in Zurich throughout most of August 1937, under the leadership of Menachem Ussishkin (the head of the Jewish National Fund): against the backdrop of the 1936-39 Arab Revolt in Palestine, it debated the position of the Zionist movement with regard to the 1936 Peel Commission's study to establish the practicality of dividing Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states - Ussishkin's faction was opposed, though the faction represented by Chaim Weizmann and David Ben-Gurion supported such a partition. In the end, the Congress rejected specific borders recommended by the Commission but permitted its executive to negotiate over them.
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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: Mandatory Palestinian, Swiss Pins, Zionist Tokens & Medals and Judaic Tokens & Medals from Palestine Mandate, Switzerland and from 1936-39 Arab Revolt, 1930s, 20th Century, 1929-1939 5th Aliya, which are Objects with Biblical or Jewish Religious references or Hebrew Dates, Object Related Specifically to a Personality or Key Event,

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Palestine Mandate. Unusually routed incoming French airmail carried by sea: 15-9-1937 airmail commercial cover from MONTLHÉRY to correspondents c/o resident NAHARIYA (via Post Office box Haifa), franked 3.50Fr & tied by 5 strikes of local postmark + airmail etiquette; backstamped same day PARIS AVION (air) transit slogan postmark ("Save time Reply by Air Mail"); upon arrival apparently transferred directly to Haifa branch of private company "Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes" (Maritime Messengers Company) whose rare 22 SEP 1937 dated boxed cachet is stamped on the back & cover subsequently transferred to passenger aboard "S/S Champollion" & noted "28.9.37 Messageries Maritimes" per manuscript on front - presumably the addressees were in transit. Opened roughly at back, repaired; complete. The ship was built in 1924 and serviced a route between France-Lebanon-Palestine-Egypt, and was heavily used by immigrants to Palestine, Holocaust survivors and partisans; sank 1952. Messageries Maritimes was a French merchant shipping company.
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This lot is being offered in a buy or bid sale format, whose initial buyout price is: $224. 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: Mandatory Palestinian, French Philately - Postal Covers, Palestine Mandate and Postal History from Palestine Mandate, France and from 1936-39 Arab Revolt, 20th Century, 1930s, 1929-1939 5th Aliya, which are Philately - significant cachets & postal markings, Philately - Sea Mail/Paquebot, Philately - Air Mail, Philately - Unusual Origin, Destination or Postal Link, Philately - Earliest/Latest, First/Last & Proving dates or places

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