Philatelic Auction Closes on Thursday, 7 November at 22:00 Israel-time (12:00pm PST / 15:00 EST / 20:00 GMT / 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 1987 60th Anniversary Teachers Council souvenir stamp sheet, Roch #1822; MNH
Apr 1948 War Independence affected JERUSALEM cover to USA, couriered to TEL AVIV
1949 rare institutional JERUSALEM-22 JNF registered mail label on cover to HAIFA
JNF 2pc stamp lot 1959 Childrens Forest, incl unlisted watermark, Roch #MH33 MNH
1925 Hebrew westbound overland specified cover Iraq to Palestine via HAIFA
1950 Egypt-seized TWA flight US airmail to Israel, latest known arrival postmark
1916 WWI Egypt British army cover earliest known BAPO Z LOD postmark, on cutout
1934 scarce Germany-Palestine airmail with Nazi swastika on stamp
1938 Palestine Mandate 15m cover JERUSALEM-BASEL addressee dead, mail returned
JNF Jewish National Fund brown stamp 1953 Schapira, #1418 perforation error; MNH
1944 WWII suspended service cover Palestine- Soviet-occupied Bulgaria via MOSCOW
JNF 1978 issue Flag of Israel souvenir stamp sheet, Roch #1699; MNH
Unrecorded brown 10m pictorial stamp on registered rerouted Tel Aviv-Jaffa cover
1943 late use vertically ribbed stamps as franking on JERUSALEM registered cover
1966 Israeli printed matter return taxed top of pile cover, 112ag for 14 letters
Palestine 1937 surface mailed cover to Malta via Egypt, many transit postmarks
1951 Israel-Switzerland TEL AVIV-GACHNANG double rate air mail cover backstamped
1985 Israeli high inflation last day 124is rate registered cover, rare stamp
Rare Chovevei Zion Society token with Hebrew letters & Zion within Star of David
WWII Holocaust Leipzig N26 labor concentration camp mail, Germany-Poland 1944
JNF purple stamp 1940 Western Wall issue, Roch #512; MNH
1945 WWII British military mail cover, UK to Palestine via Egypt; rare postmark
1918 WWI Egypt British military cover, APO SZ 10 postmark date missing digit
Palestine Mandate 194710m cover Tel Aviv-Netanya, backstamped arrival


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