Worldwide Stamps and Covers ISRAEL - HOLYLAND Austrian Offices in the Holyland
Sale No: 0919
Lot No:734
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Cat No:1a
1867 Austrian Levant 2sld yellow (coarse print), horizontal pair canceled by a perfect strike of "Gerusalemme 4/7" on a "Habazeleth" newspaper, dated 27 June 5633 (1873), printed on both sides in Hebrew, folded with slight soiling, fine (Habazeleth was a Hebrew-language newspaper published in Jerusalem in 1863 (5623-5624) and from 1870 to 1911. It operated for some time as a monthly publication, while in later years it became a biweekly and then weekly publication. Israel Dov Frumkin (1850-1914) was Habazeleth's editor and owner). A fine and rare item (Cat No. 1a) (Image)