Russia. Incoming mail: 16 VI 1900 Lazar Solomonovich Poliakoff stationary registered commercial cover from MOSCOW to [Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem] Rabbi Shmuel Salant in JERUSALEM, franked 20 Kop. using ver pair 10 Kp, tied by 2 strikes of local postmark + Moscou 974 label & "Zakaznoe / Recommandirt." Russian-German registered handstamp and dotted "R" overseas mail registered mark; backstamped next day dispatch, unclear ODESSA transit; 21 JUNE 00 CONSTANTINOPLE transit & 24 JUNE dispatch; 2 JUL 1900 JAFFA transit (violet postmark Ba 614). Wax sealed backwith Poliakoff's emblem. Rabbi Salant helped establish the Etz Chaim Yeshiva in Jerusalem; Poliakoff was known as the "Rothschild of Russia". Cat val $450+
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Product Tags: Russian, Holylandish Philately - Postal Covers, Ottoman Holyland & Forerunners and Postal History from Russia, Holyland and from 1882-1903 1st Aliya, 20th Century, 1900s which are Philately - significant cachets & postal markings, Philately - Significant Addresses/Persons, Object Related Specifically to a Personality or Key Event,

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Holyland. German PO in Holyland: 13-03-1906 color picture-postcard of Jerusalem from JERUSALEM to VIENNA, franked at period postcard rate using overprinted Germania 20 Para on 10Pf (Ba25/37) and tied by full strike Ba403 postmark; est. value $130+
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Product Tags: Holylandish, Austrian Postcards, Ottoman Holyland & Forerunners and Postal History from Holyland, Austria and from 1904-1914 2nd Aliya, 20th Century, 1900s which are Philately - significant cachets & postal markings

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Holyland. Jewish colony mail (via Austrian PO): 9 IX 1910 Austrian prepaid 20 Para postal stationary postcard (1908 issue - Ba111) from Haim Dov (Rabbi Kantor of Shfeya - a Mohel & Shochet, one of the first settlers of Meir Shfeia, a tiny locale from which only 2 postcards are known posted of which one from R. Kantor) now in "Colonie" Zichron Yaakov; mailed via HAIFA (as Zichron Post Office only opened in 1912) to JAFFA, addressed to Dr. Arthur Ruppin (head of the Eretz Israel Office of the Zionist Organization) "for Rabbi Binyamin" (pseudonym of the Hebrew essayist Yehoshua Radler-Feldmann, 1880–1957, a founder of Kvutzat Kinneret and the Brit Shalom movement), tied by Austrian PO CAIFA A (Ba123) postmark + next day JAFFA B (Ba126) arrival postmark on front; marked by Ruppin's office cachet as received on 11/9/1910 and with Stars of David sketched on the front. Two filing hole refilled/repaired. Rare mail as associated with a Shfeya resident. Here not marked by "Zichron" line cachets as postcard predates their use (1911/13).
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Product Tags: Holylandish Postcards, Holyland Colonies and Postal History from Holyland and from 1904-1914 2nd Aliya, 20th Century, 1910s which are Philately - Significant Addresses/Persons, Philately - Small Locales, Philately - Postal Stationary, Hebrew on/in non-Israeli object,Object Related Specifically to a Personality or Key Event,

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Holyland. Local Hebrew Ottoman post/Small Locales: 20 FEB 1913 strike of rare violet Aioun Cara postmark (Ba 810v) tied to Ottoman 20 Para frank on picture-postcard (Tuck's) from AIOUN CARA (Rishon LeZion) to ROSH PINA, written in Hebrew; backstamped 22 FEB 1913 HAIFA transit (Ba791 postmark). Collins/Steichele (p.40) notes that "this postmark is very rarely clearly struck". Addressed Segal family is closely identified with early Jewish settlement in Holyland; "H. Segal" may be Haim Yona Segal, the "butcher from Rosh Pina" per Tidhar's 'Encyclopedia' (vol. 3 p. 1177); his wife, to whom the card is addressed was Leah. Est value $1500+
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Product Tags: Holylandish Postcards, Holyland Colonies and Postal History from Holyland and from 1904-1914 2nd Aliya, 20th Century, 1910s which are Philately - significant cachets & postal markings, Philately - Small Locales, Philately - Significant Addresses/Persons, Hebrew on/in non-Israeli object, Philately - Unusual Origin, Destination or Postal Link

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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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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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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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Hungary. Hungary: bronze token of 1st postwar (5th) convention of the religious-Zionist "Bachad" youth movement, in Budapest, 1947; size: 1.75 x 2.1mm; weight: 2.4g. Obverse bears legend in Hebrew: "[Hebrew month of] Tamuz [June-July, in the year] 5707 Fifth Convention Budapest"; on reverse the emblem of the "Bachad" youth movement. The token is designed as a tallion.

"Bachad" - "Brit Chalutzim Datiim", the "Covenant of Religious [Zionist] Pioneers" was founded in German in 1928 to train and prepare religious-Zionist youths to emigrate to Palestine and establish communities there. The movement operated also in Austria, Britain Czechoslovakia, Holland, Hungary, and Romania, and in Poland (under the auspicies of the "Bnei Akiva" and "HaShomer HaDati" youth movements). The movement was established on the basis of another movement called "Tzeirey Mizrachi" ("Mizrachi Youth" - Mizrachi being an existing religious political party) to serve as an umbrella organization for all the religious-Zionist youth movements in Germany, and initially known as "HaChalutz HaMizrachi" before being renamed "Bachad".

The reknowned scientist and thinker, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, prepared the educational program of the movement. In 1937 "Bachad" together with other religious youth movements founded the "Kibbutz HaDati" settlement movement within whose framework it established the Kibbutz 'Tirat Tzvi'. The movement's last pre-war convention was its 4th, in 1934 in Berlin, and this tallion commemorates their 5th convention, in Budapest prior to (and on the eve of) Israel's establishment, with strict immigration quotas and a British sea-blockade on Palestine in place.
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Product Tags: Hungarian, Mandatory Palestinian Exonumia, Medals, Medallions & Tokens, Zionist Tokens & Medals and Judaic Tokens & Medals from Hungary, Palestine Mandate and from 1939-48 Jewish Insurgency in Palestine, Holocaust, 1945-1949 Postwar era, 1940s, 20th Century, which are Hebrew on/in non-Israeli object, Objects with Biblical or Jewish Religious references or Hebrew Dates,

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Palestine Mandate. JNF 1947 12 Tribes complete stamp sheet (12 x 5) with double selvage (with legend "Davings Stamps for Registering in the Bar Mitzvah Book of the Jewish National Fund"), on watermarked paper & numbered 697, MNH & OG; bottom half of right corner gutter torn off; a few round gum disturbance spots on back but do not appear to be hinge marks; staple holes in top selvage from where originally attached. Kap 1156a-1215a/Roch 1059-1118 - Kaplove attributes this series to 1950. Rare & high valued by Rochlin ($100 in 1990).
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Product Tags: Mandatory Palestinian Philately - Stamps, JNF & Judaic and Stamps from Palestine Mandate and from 1939-48 Jewish Insurgency in Palestine, 1947-49 Israel War of Independence, 20th Century, 1940s, 1945-1949 Postwar era, which are Minting/Production Error, Philately - uncatalogued/undocumented varieties,

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Palestine Mandate. Mandate Haifa postmarks: 29 MY 1947 local registered cover on Moslem Society stationary (to "Her Excellency the Director of Social Affairs, Haifa; Shtanton Street Haifa") franked 25m per period rate (10m letter + 15m registration) tied by 2 strikes of rare HIDJAZ STREET skeleton postmark GD-124/Sach-J25 (and twice on back); backstamped same day REG HAIFA; torn open at back & repaired, complete; est. value $150+
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Product Tags: Mandatory Palestinian Philately - Postal Covers, Postmarks & Postal Markings - Mandate and Postal History from Palestine Mandate and from 1939-48 Jewish Insurgency in Palestine, 20th Century, 1940s, 1945-1949 Postwar era, which are Philately - significant cachets & postal markings, Philately - Printed Matter mail,

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Egypt. Egypt 6x revenue stamps for Gaza 1948-59, overprinted 'Palestine' in Arabic & English: 1m, 5m, 10m, 30m, 50m, 200m; MNH. The 10 mill issue appears to have rough perforations. Bale & SG 'Egypt' unlisted.
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Product Tags: Egyptian, Gazan Philately - Stamps, Egypt and Stamps from Egypt, Gaza and from 1947-49 Israel War of Independence, 20th Century, 1940s, 1945-1949 Postwar era, 1950s,

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Israel. Israel 1948 Doar Ivri DISCOVERY PIECE: pale cobalt 20mil left corner marginal tabblock of 7 + blank adjusted tab below printed tab (not a "double perforation") on thin yellow paper (May 1948 printing: setting A, plate 1 with tab types 1-2-2-3-2a-3-1.1) & with 10:11 perforations; MNH & OG; toning on upper perforation & variously on gum; lightly folded along 3rd, 4th & 6th vertical perforation; vertical perforation alignment mismatched. Ex Moshe Hesky collection; as such - Bale unlisted (basic: Ba 5d - cat. value $3745). Tsachor/Aloni certified.
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Product Tags: Israeli Philately - Stamps, Israel and Stamps from Israel and from 1947-49 Israel War of Independence, 20th Century, 1940s, 1945-1949 Postwar era, 1948 - 1st Day of Israel, which are Unique/Discovery Piece

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Israel. 1948-49 War Syrian airlink with Palestine: 25-1-1949 air mail family correspondence cover from BRUSSELS to Shaare Tzedek Hospital JERUSALEM "Palestine", franked 6F per postage period rate & tied by 2x strikes of local postmark and deposited in post box for dispatch (front marked such); as addressed "Palestine" not routed to ISRAEL & instead via SYRIA which maintained air-link to Palestine via JORDAN except when interrupted by the war, Jan-Mar 1949 ("Israel"-bound mail would have been left to Jordan to handle): here backstamped 30-1-49 DAMASCUS transit (full strike) where address manuscript-noted in French "zone Israel" - this rare as other covers not sorted such - and cover marked by rare 3-line French language "Return to Origin | Communication with Palestine | Interrupted" instructional marking handstamp K-Type-I & returned to sender. Cover resent 21-2-1949 per backstamp and now correctly routed to ISRAEL where address translated into Hebrew (red manuscript): as hospital served as a military hospital, cover processed by army post office & backstamped twice 28 II 49 APO-5 (JERUSALEM) transit. Extremely rare: less than 5 covers known marked by the Syrian instructional marking (none censored by Syria) - and this is the only Arab "no service" cover in Kibble's extensive collection also marked/handled by the Israeli military post. Opened roughly at top & repaired/reconstructed; a few minor pieces of edge missing.
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Product Tags: Israeli, Belgian, Syrian, Philately - Postal Covers, 1948 Israel: Service Suspended (by belligerents) and Postal History from Israel, Belgium, Syria, and from 1947-49 Israel War of Independence, 20th Century, 1940s, 1945-1949 Postwar era, which are Philately - Air Mail, Philately - significant cachets & postal markings, Philately - Suspended Service mail, Philately - Significant Route, Philately - Earliest/Latest, First/Last & Proving dates or places, Philately - unusual postal procedures/fines/taxes, Philately - Military Post Offices or Military Administration, Unique/Discovery Piece, Philately - Unusual Origin, Destination or Postal Link

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Israel. 1948 interim mail/Nahariya slogans: 1ST SLOGAN PROOF printed on light blue-green Gestetner watermarked paper, size: 19.8 x 14.6cm. This is Type B of the 1st slogan, designed by Shlomo Shoshani, and used later on 22 March as a replacement for Type A for design problems including the incorrect date. The 1st slogan was only used for 1 day (22 March 1948). Only about 14 covers are known marked by either type of the 1st slogan; here as a Proof very rare & depicts the postmark at an early stage of use. Estimated value $8,000-10,000++ (Bale values marked covers at $8500).
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Product Tags: Israeli, Mandatory Palestinian Philately - Postal Proof/Trial object, 1948 Israel: Nahariya and Postal History from Israel, Palestine Mandate and from 1947-49 Israel War of Independence, 1948 Mandate Termination & Israeli Interim period, 20th Century, 1940s, 1945-1949 Postwar era, which are Philately - significant cachets & postal markings, Philately - Besieged locale, Philately - Proofs & Essays, Unique/Discovery Piece, Philately - Significant Route, 1st edition,

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Israel. 1948 interim mail/Nahariya 4th slogan: 4 APR 1948 commercial cover from NAHARIYA to HAIFA, mailed pre-franked 10m per period letter rate using vertical pair 5m Mandate pictorals & tied front/back by 4th slogan postmark on 1st day of use (indicating 20m advance fee for this service was paid); cover was transported from besieged Nahariya by sea to HAIFA, where posted 13 AP 48 at the Mandate Post Office. Slit open at top, horizontal fold.
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Product Tags: Israeli, Mandatory Palestinian Philately - Postal Covers, 1948 Israel: Nahariya and Postal History from Israel, Palestine Mandate and from 1947-49 Israel War of Independence, 1948 Mandate Termination & Israeli Interim period, 20th Century, 1940s, 1945-1949 Postwar era, which are Philately - significant cachets & postal markings, Philately - Besieged locale, Philately - Significant Route, Philately - Earliest/Latest, First/Last & Proving dates or places

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Israel. 1948 JERUSALEM siege / Jewish Quarter of Old City: full strike of Second "Wall" Postmark (????? ?????) tied to top-guttered Interim 10m JERUSALEM Locals II frank on unaddressed cover (franked per period letter rate) on mint "Doar" stationary envelope. This 2nd type was ordered as the original one was not portable. It was received on 10 May (same date that the Locals II frank entered use) by the last convoy to reach the besieged Old City, and any mail marked by it was carried by the last outgoing convoy on the 13th (day before Independence day). Unlike the 3rd type (created after establishment of Israel) known only for souvenir and philatelic strikes, this 2nd version was legitimately used by the defending forces in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City. Extremely rare and very fine - at a minimum as a genuine momento from the "siege within the siege".
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Product Tags: Israeli, Mandatory Palestinian Philately - Postal Proof/Trial object, 1948 Israel: Besieged Jerusalem (20 April-20 June) and Postal History from Israel, Palestine Mandate and from 1947-49 Israel War of Independence, 1948 Mandate Termination & Israeli Interim period, 20th Century, 1940s, 1945-1949 Postwar era, 1948 - 1st Day of Israel which are Philately - Besieged locale, Philately - significant cachets & postal markings, Philately - Significant Route, Philately - Earliest/Latest, First/Last & Proving dates or places, Philately - Unusual Origin, Destination or Postal Link

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Israel. 1948 JERUSALEM 1st convoy mail: registered cover to Anglo-Palestine Bank in TEL AVIV, posted at Anglo-Palestine Bank (JERUSALEM 4), franked 25m at period registered letter rate using 2nd local issue Ba106 tied by single strike of local interim postmark (+ 2 on back) & 12 MAY 1948 dater; transported on 1st convoy of 18 June & backstamped same day TEL AVIV arrival; slit open at bottom. Estimated value $235+
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Product Tags: Israeli, Mandatory Palestinian Philately - Postal Covers, 1948 Israel: Besieged Jerusalem (20 April-20 June) and Postal History from Israel, Palestine Mandate and from 1947-49 Israel War of Independence, 1948 Mandate Termination & Israeli Interim period, 20th Century, 1940s, 1945-1949 Postwar era, which are Philately - Besieged locale, Philately - Significant Route,

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Israel. 1948 JERUSALEM 2nd convoy remarkable assembly: 16-5-1948 'first day' registered cover (4199) from JERUSALEM-6 (Mahane Yehuda branch office) to Kibbutz DAFNA (misspelled) franked 40+ mils (10m letter + 15m registered + 2+ x 6m additional weight) using complete 2nd issue Jerusalem locals (Ba104-106) + 1 non-denominated/un-overprinted with 'canal' flaw (light brown ink: Jewish State 10m Ba30 or 1st issue 5m Ba101), tied by 3 strikes of JERUSALEM "Independence" postmark (Ba B-5) on front + 2 on back; as posted during the full siege on JERUSALEM, held at Rehavia sorting office until carried by 2nd convoy to TEL AVIV (carrying accumulated mail from 13 May - 21 June), here backstamped 21-6-1948 TEL AVIV transit (inverted Hebrew date), then 23 JU 48 TIBERIAS & ROSH PINNA transit - using reintroduced Mandate postmarks (Dorf-7/Dorf-5); slit open at bottom, vertical & horizontal folds. Addressee Ariela Elazari (b. 1929 Jerusalem) was a female soldier in the 3rd battalion of the Yiftach Brigade of the Palmach, who served as a wireless operator, and who in this function also served as part of the Israeli delegation to the ceasefire talks in Rhodes in 1949; retired from teaching in 1994; listed veteran on Palmach's website. Cover's registry-label serial belongs to the sequence Aloni associates with the Interim period (0010-8952) - possibly prepared beforehand, before postal dispatch. Rare combination of special franks & postmarks + small locale routing on 3 postal period cover.
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Product Tags: Israeli, Mandatory Palestinian Philately - Postal Covers, 1948 Israel: Besieged Jerusalem (20 April-20 June) and Postal History from Israel, Palestine Mandate and from 1947-49 Israel War of Independence, 20th Century, 1940s, 1945-1949 Postwar era, 1948 - 1st Day of Israel, which are Philately - Besieged locale, Philately - significant cachets & postal markings, Philately - Significant franks on covers, Philately - Significant Route, Philately - Earliest/Latest, First/Last & Proving dates or places, Philately - Multiple Postal Authority/Period mail, Philately - Significant Addresses/Persons, Philately - Small Locales, Philately - Significant Rates/Periods, Philately - stamp design/overprint variations, Minting/Production Error, Object Related Specifically to a Personality or Key Event

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Israel. "Box 18 Johannesburg" emergency mail: undated Aronowitz family correspondence cover from JOHANNESBURG (South Africa) to TEL AVIV "Palestine"; posted unstamped within an envelope to "Box 18" JOHANNESBURG with required postage fee enclosed within, whereupon removed from outer envelope & sent via the South African Zionist Federation's airmail service to Palestine (parcels of letters sent as "Air Freight" on Pan African Air Charter airlines [PAAC] via Rhodesia-Kenya-Khartoum-Wadi Halfa (Sudan)-Aden(!) to HAIFA; established late April); cover marked by the service's cachet "Per Postal Communication | Box 18 Johannesburg" on front and vertically at right side; at HAIFA transferred to the Peltours mail operation which stamped it with their oval business "Pel" Palestine & Egypt Lloyd Ltd. | PELTOURS | Tel-Aviv cachet & posted it in TEL AVIV with a 10m Doar Ivri frank affixed (this pre-paid by sender), tied by 11-8-1948 head post office postmark. Slit open at top (the sealed side may be the result of the service's removal of the enclosed payment); the notation "7" next to "Tel Aviv denotes that payment for 7 such letters was made. Although postal relations between many countries and Israel resumed by August, this special airmail service continued until 13 September as only then South Africa resumed airmail services with Israel.
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Product Tags: Israeli, South African, Sudanese, Philately - Postal Covers, 1948 Israel: emergency postal links and Postal History from Israel, South Africa, Sudan, and from 1947-49 Israel War of Independence, South Africa - National Party/Apartheid era, 20th Century, 1940s, 1945-1949 Postwar era, which are Philately - Air Mail, Philately - Significant Route, Philately - significant cachets & postal markings, Philately - Stampless Mail

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Israel. 1948 early post-siege interim mail JERUSALEM: local printed matter cover franked 5m per period printed-matter rate using Doar Ivri Ba2, newly arrived in city as of 20 June, and tied by full strike of 1st day usage of 'Liberation' postmark 21 JUNE 1948; addressee not found (manuscript on back) and letter returned to sender; back-flap unsealed as per printed-matter regulations; very fine, Muenz certified.
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Product Tags: Israeli Philately - Postal Covers, 1948 Israel: Post-Siege Interim Jerusalem (after 20 June) and Postal History from Israel and from 1947-49 Israel War of Independence, 20th Century, 1940s, 1945-1949 Postwar era, which are Philately - Significant franks on covers, Philately - significant cachets & postal markings, Philately - Earliest/Latest, First/Last & Proving dates or places, Philately - Printed Matter mail

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Israel. 1948 JERUSALEM interim local mail: long printed matter cover from nutrition committee in JERUSALEM to PETACH TIKVA, marked "Printed Matter" (barely visible) and franked 5m for the 3m period printed-matter rate using rare locals III stamp with slanting "5" (Ba107) tied by large 38mm MEA SHEARIM branch office postmark with 21 JUNE 1948 rubber dater at center. Franking accepted in Petach Tikva although invalid outside of JERUSALEM as of 23 May. The postal siege on JERUSALEM ended 23 June: this cover most likely transported using the new "Burma Road" land route, opened 6 June. Mea Shearim branch office received the Israeli trilingual canceller around 7 Aug. Folded for length; gently opened.
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Product Tags: Israeli Philately - Postal Covers, 1948 Israel: Post-Siege Interim Jerusalem (after 20 June) and Postal History from Israel and from 1947-49 Israel War of Independence, 20th Century, 1940s, 1945-1949 Postwar era, which are Philately - unusual postal procedures/fines/taxes, Philately - significant cachets & postal markings, Philately - Significant franks on covers, Philately - Printed Matter mail

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Israel. 1948 JERUSALEM interim mail: 21 Jun 1948 local registered cover from "Technical Department of Jewish Agency" to [architect] Dr. Herman Schlesinger, franked 50m per period 25m rate + 4x additional weight (24m) using top horizontal row of 5x Locals II 10m with plate block number, tied by 5 strikes of local interim postmark + 1 on back; tied by JERUSALEM-18 registry-label 0873 (Rechavia BO) + English single-line dater "1 Jun 1948" with pencil added "2" before the date; back sealed with wax seals (traces visible), cut open at right, a few peripheral edge tears. If dispatched on the 21st, this would have been on the last day of the postal siege; the Jerusalem trilingual postmarks began entering use on 4 July. Of interest, the Jewish Agency held registry number 8 but this letter was sent from Rechavia. The "Technical Department" was headed by chief engineer Yaakov Rieser from 1926-59 and its projects included the planning of the "Tower & Stockade" settlements and the Tel Aviv port. Scarce multiple franked mail. Estimated value $120+
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This lot is being offered in a buy or bid sale format, whose initial buyout price is: $119. 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: Israeli Philately - Postal Covers, 1948 Israel: Post-Siege Interim Jerusalem (after 20 June) and Postal History from Israel and from 1947-49 Israel War of Independence, 20th Century, 1940s, 1945-1949 Postwar era, which are Philately - Significant franks on covers, Philately - Significant Rates/Periods, Object Related Specifically to a Personality or Key Event,

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Israel. 1948 JERUSALEM interim mail: commercial cover to TEL AVIV franked 10m per letter rate using 2nd local issue Ba105 tied by "Egg" liberation postmark on 1st day of use, 22 JUNE 1948; slit open at top. Estimated value $150+
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This lot is being offered in a buy or bid sale format, whose initial buyout price is: $149. 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: Israeli Philately - Postal Covers, 1948 Israel: Post-Siege Interim Jerusalem (after 20 June) and Postal History from Israel and from 1947-49 Israel War of Independence, 20th Century, 1940s, 1945-1949 Postwar era, which are Philately - significant cachets & postal markings, Philately - Earliest/Latest, First/Last & Proving dates or places,

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Israel. 1948 interim mail JERUSALEM / 1st day "Egg" postmark: local commercial cover (requisitioned OHMS stationary) from Minhelet Ha'am Income Tax Office (two clear strikes of scarce cachet on front) franked period letter rate using 10m 2nd local issue Ba105 (Doar Ivri stamps available in the city only as of 20 June) and tied by full strike of first day of use "egg" postmark 22 JUNE 1948 (a day before the end of the 'postal siege' on Jerusalem); roughly opened at left and resealed, vertical fold.
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This lot is being offered in a buy or bid sale format, whose initial buyout price is: $149. 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: Israeli Philately - Postal Covers, 1948 Israel: Post-Siege Interim Jerusalem (after 20 June) and Postal History from Israel and from 1947-49 Israel War of Independence, 20th Century, 1940s, 1945-1949 Postwar era, which are Philately - Earliest/Latest, First/Last & Proving dates or places, Philately - significant cachets & postal markings,

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Israel. Doar Ivri in Interim Jerusalem: rare rouletted 10m frank tied to cover from JERUSALEM to HAIFA & cancelled by -2 JULY 1948 interim egg postmark (2 days before last day of use). Doar Ivri stamps officially entered use in Jerusalem on 20 June but it is generally believed that the rouletted types were not included in the first shipment; as these were the earliest type of Doar Ivri stamps produced, these are rarely seen on later-dated mail originating from Jerusalem; cut open at top.
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This lot is being offered in a buy or bid sale format, whose initial buyout price is: $149. 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: Israeli Philately - Postal Covers, 1948 Israel: Post-Siege Interim Jerusalem (after 20 June) and Postal History from Israel and from 1947-49 Israel War of Independence, 20th Century, 1940s, 1945-1949 Postwar era, which are Philately - Significant franks on covers, Philately - significant cachets & postal markings,

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Israel. 1948-49 War Arab POW mail: stampless undated cover on NABLUS municipality stationary (no return address) to "Respected sir, Mahmoud Abdelhady Khalaf | Prisoner no. 6180 | Detention Camp no. 795", transferred to Israel via Red Cross whose red GENEVA cachet is tied to front; backstamped by Iraqi Army negative censor cachet whose expeditionary force operated in area of Qalqilya-Tulkarem-Nablus-Jenin between 15 May 1948 & April 1949; cover passed Israeli censor "51" (front/back) & marked front/back by bilingual "Passed Censor" double-ring handstamp (3x different censor marks in total); unsealed.
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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: Israeli, Palestinian, Jordanian, Philately - Postal Covers, 1947-49 Arabian mail in War of Independence and Postal History from Israel, Palestine, Jordan, and from 1947-49 Israel War of Independence, 20th Century, 1940s, 1945-1949 Postwar era, which are Philately - significant cachets & postal markings, Philately - Censored Mail, Philately - Significant Route, Philately - Multiple Postal Authority/Period mail, Philately - unusual postal procedures/fines/taxes, Philately - Displaced Persons/Internee/POW Camp mail, Philately - Stampless Mail,

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