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1956 taxed incoming French air mail: 8 Feb 1956 postmarked airmailed cover on imprinted hotel postal stationary, sent from PARIS to French Consul General in JERUSALEM & franked 40Fr - but found to be short paid & marked for tax by the French post office using T taxe mark charging the cover 17 gold centimes for twice the deficient postage; machine backstamped 12 Feb transit-arrival; in Israel the post office charged the postage dues as 105 prutot, at the period exchange rate of 6.2pr : 1g ctm, paid on 13 Feb at JERUSALEM-2 (head post office) using 100pr + 5pr stamps of the 3rd postage dues series; slit open at top.
