Philatelic Auction Closes on Thursday, 3 April at 22:00 Israel-time (12:00pm PDT / 15:00 EDT / 20:00 BST / 07:00 AEDT)

A budget buyout auction featuring outstanding and intriguing postal history & stamps from the Palestine Mandate, Israel and the world with specialized topics such as Doar Ivri, Mandate overprints, coil stamps, postage dues, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the Holocaust - plus lots of JNF stamps. Bids of at least 75% of the starting price are accepted.

 
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 2 minutes 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.

Bid Budgets - bidders can use "bid budgets" to maximize their bids: specify a global amount to limit bids to and then submit a list of prioritized bids; whatever lots are won are awarded to the bidders according to their preference within their budget. Example: a person with a budget of $100 can bid on any number of lots up to $100 each and be awarded any of them as long as they are within his budget. Contact us.

Where there are 2 or more bids/bidders on a lot, if the winner has used a bid budget and forfeits his win in favor of a different lot, this lot will be awarded to the runner-up at his bid amount *prior* to the winner placing his bid (eg. awarded at his bid level net of any increases resulting from competition with the winner).

Where there is only 1 bid/bidder on a lot there is still a chance he's bidding with a 'bid budget': those interested in bidding at or below the starting price may submit their bids by email and we will keep them on file; in the event that a sole bidder is the winner of the lot but forfeits it for another lot, we will award the present lot to those bidders who submitted their alternative bids by email.
 
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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 research center; our new "JerusalemStamps Bulletin" research journal is now online. This is our Facebook "Israel-Holyland Philately Research Group" - join us for latest groundbreaking news, from the past!

Featured Items in Stock

JNF Jewish National Fund American 1961 Tag Day issue tag, Roch #TA174; MNH
JNF Jewish National Fund 2pc stamp set 1955 Settlement Mountain 1486 variety MNH
1965 short paid France-Israel air mail cover taxed postage dues
1941 WWII franked/censored Australian military air mail cover BEIRUT - BRISBANE
1965 Israeli printed matter return taxed top of pile cover, 176ag for 22 letters
Apr 1948 War Independence affected JERUSALEM cover to USA, couriered to TEL AVIV
JNF Jewish National Fund 9 stamps 1949 Galilee, #1268-70/1272-75 + varieties MNH
Palestine 1st postage dues 5pc stamp set, Ba #D1-D5; used
1955 rare Jordanian no-service marking on misrouted Germany-Israel cover
Israel Must Live 4x6 24pc stamp block issued by United Synagogue of America, MNH
Palestine Mandate double weight surface mail on 1946 34m franked cover to USA
2/1916 WWI Egypt British military cover, earliest known use of APO SZ 4 postmark
1939 WWII Palestine Mandate suspended service postcard TEL AVIV to BELZ POLAND
4 mils Typographical stamp with plate variety position 39 or 135, Ba #8; MH OG
1960 shortpaid Algeria-Israel airmail cover French stamps, taxed by Provisionals
JNF 2x green 100m 1948 Aliya stamps on white-gray & yellow paper, Roch #1255 MNH
1917 WWI Holyland German army Palestine registered cover NAZARETH-DAMASCUS
Rare postal link 1951 SUDAN-ISRAEL postage paid airmail via CYPRUS
No Service 1948 US Official mail ex Germany to Palestine-Israel, couriered Sept
1946 Palestine cover to Jewish Brigade soldier; redirected as OAS mail
1 mil Jerusalem II position 82 overprint variety stamp, Ba #30; MH OG
1972 unfranked Danish airmail Israel sent surface mail & taxed; unpaid then paid
1 mil Typographical stamp block, plate positions 197-198 & 209-210 Ba #5; MH/MNH
Jewish National Fund Rochlin unlisted pair labels 1976 75th Anniversary JNF, MNH


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