Lot #: 133999c

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Lebanese postal boycott of Israel: 31 MAY 1950 air mailed long cover sent from LONDON to Israeli President Chaim Weizmann's aide de camp Major David Arnon in REHOVOT "Israel", meter franked 6d for the period ½ ounce airmail rate to the Middle East. The cover was mis-routed: subsequently marked by a boxed "4" cachet (origin unknown), backstamped with a June dated BEYROUTH transit-arrival postmark and 2x strikes of the rare Lebanese instructional marking in French "Pas de relations postales avec Israli" (sic), Kibble Type-1.

The cover was returned to the UK but as the sender had not written a return address, the letter was opened by the Returned Letter Section in LONDON and the address written on the front; the cover was sealed and backstamped 21 JUNE return-transit. Very rare: only 4 covers are known to Kibble with the Type-1 no-service marking, with this cover being the latest dated known mail with that instructional marking; the only observed instance of Arab postal boycott mail with a postal seal used.