Description
UNIQUE small locale mail: undated 1948 interim Israel era commercial cover to lawyer in TEL AVIV from Yaakov Musli in HAIFA, return addressed "Musli Neighborhood" (Shechunat Musli); franked 20m for letter rate + additional weight (10m + 6m, 4m overpaid) using 2x Ramat Gan 25th anniversary stamps (Ba #26) tied by single strike of deformed interim cancel, possibly Hadar HaCarmel (based on the style of the deformity) in the late interim period (i.e. May 10-14 1948). Opened gently at back.
Musli (1885-1960) was a skilled mechanical engineer with many accomplishments to his name, including being a founder of the Hejaz railway and the water company in Haifa; inventor of numerous engineering patents and chairman of the "Mount Carmel committee" within whose framework he built houses in a special cross-shaped manner to maximize their space and suit them to their ecological surroundings - this became known as the "Musli neighborhood" in his time, and is today known as "Shoshanat HaCarmel" street. Here a unique postal history item bearing his name and the neighborhood named after him.
