Description
Dateless triangular cancellation on overseas mail/embarrassing postal packet: dateless pre-WWII era minature business-card sized printed matter cover, from TEL AVIV to BERLIN and endorsed "Germania" in Hebrew, franked 3 mils per period overseas rate using Pictorials single stamp (on vertically ribbed thick paper, with compound horizontal perforation of 13.25 at base and 13.5 on top - this latter not recorded for this paper type) & tied by single strike of the thick framed TLV initialled dateless triangular cancellation (Sacher #C2/Groten #E2, rated C, known used from May 1937 to Aug 1941 - pre-war here, among other obvious reasons, as lacking censor markings) - used here against regulations on mail destined abroad (these cancels were used on domestic printed matter mail during holiday periods as a way of not revealing the dispatch date, in case of delays in delivery due to the high seasonal mail volume); unsealed per printed matter regulations.
Of note, at 9.3 x 5.3cm dimensions, this cover qualified for what the Mandate postal service termed "embarrassing postal packet" (a poor translation of the Hebrew term for "Doar Mafriim" - troublesome mail items), being a mail item of a size less than the minimum prescribed by the regulations of the Post Office (10 x 7cm); here specifically as printed matter, it would have been treated as "undeliverable and dealt with accordingly" (not necessarily returned to sender, like letters as such). Nevertheless, not sanctioned and passed through the mails. Rare and unusual mail.
