Auction #11 Closes on Tuesday, 17 May at 22:00 Israel-time (15:00 EST / 19:00 GMT)
Welcome to our new 11th philatelic auction, featuring THE BEST Israeli stamps & postal history available anywhere - the earliest known, the latest known, the only known covers of various kinds, of historical and philatelic importance, with an emphasis on rare stamp types, rates and routes.
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A sampling of highlights:
never before seen Holyland French Post Office taxe marked & manuscript marked postage dues postcard | Bale #21a Mandate 1 Piaster Jerusalem I setting I stamps in MNH & used condition | exceedingly rare 1938 late fee registered envelope with All-Up airmail postage | landmark 1939 WWII era 'small packet' airmailed cover + proving postmark | earliest known dated WWII army postal concession cover | EXTRAORDINARY WWII Romania-Palestine postcard sent through the mails while both countries at war with each other | unlisted 3 piece set of high denomination Mandate pictorial stamps overstamped SPECIMEN | late Mandate 1948 German express mail cover sent via Aleppo, possibly last mail from Syria | Apr 1948 last known mail from from Mandatory JAFFA | 10x11 perforated full tabbed 20m Doar Ivri stamp as part of Late Fee 1948 1st flight KLM airmail | Jerusalem convoy cover as 1st flight KLM airmail - with Mandate franks | Monster - "Doar Sadeh" endorsed Israeli army/police forerunner mail | 16 May 1948 mail addressed to bombed/closed Tel Aviv airport | 1950 1st known Israeli registered printed matter letter with 30pr Late Fee | and there is PLENTY MORE!
This is a "buy or bid" sale, where the starting prices can be underbid by up to 25% and lots can be also bought out; maximum bids are kept confidential. There is a 5 minute time extension for bids received within the last minute of the auction time. The buyer's fee is 18%.
Bids may be submitted in writing by any method - through the auction program, by the bid form (above), email, fax, sms/whatsapp; bidders can request to set 'bid budgets' and thereby bid on many items while keeping their total exposure limited to a certain sum - and setting priorities for which lots they most prefer to secure of those they bid on. Contact us for assistance.
Bids may be submitted in writing by any method - through the auction program, by the bid form (above), email, fax, sms/whatsapp; bidders can request to set 'bid budgets' and thereby bid on many items while keeping their total exposure limited to a certain sum - and setting priorities for which lots they most prefer to secure of those they bid on. Contact us for assistance.
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We encourage visitors to look closely at the display and read the descriptions carefully: there is a lot of information there, much never seen before, painstakenly assembled from primary sources. Over 90% of the information comes from our compilation called the "Handbook of Holyland Postal History and Philately", available free here; the rest comes from cited sources in the descriptions. There's a lot to learn and much to marvel at.
Our latest and pioneering research is published on our website blog; we will shortly published our new "JerusalemStamps Bulletin" research journal - contact us to be added to the distribution list, it's free. This is our Facebook "Israel-Holyland Philately Research Group" - join us for latest groundbreaking news, from the past!
