Description
Scarce combination Mandate postmark on mixed perforation Doar Ivri franked registered letter: 2 June 1948 postmarked local TEL AVIV registered printed matter cover franked 18m at period rate (3m printed matter rate + 15m registration fee) using 3 color mixed perforation Doar Ivri franking: 3m (10x11 perf) Ba #1d, 5m Ba #2 & 10m rouletted Ba #3c franks tied by 2x strikes of reintroduced Mandate TEL NORDAU-TEL AVIV postmark (Groten-I20) on front + 1x on back, with Mandate TEL AVIV-5 R-label & National Loan cachet applied by the TEL AVIV sorting office on front; unsealed per printed matter regulations. Most registered mail of this period is observed datestamped by the Israeli trilingual postmarks of the head post offices of Tel Aviv and Haifa, much scarcer is registered mail tied by the Mandate postmark of a secondary post office.
