Sales That Have Ended

Airmail to ship: 1 SEP 1935 postmarked uprated air mail Mandate postal card with message in German dated same day in Haifa, from HAIFA to a passenger on the SS Mariette Pacha paquebot of the French Messageries Maritime transport company (referenced in the address), in MARSEILLE; franked 10m using a combination of the pre-printed frank + pictorals, at the period Imperial Airways postcard rate to Fr...

Privately couriered mail: cover from HAIFA to RISHON LE ZION franked 10m per domestic letter rate & tied by 27 JUN 1947 (1 PM) dated Sacher F5a machine cancel. Of interest is the business cachet on back for "Zariz/Saris" ('Zariz' in Hebrew means "quick" or "agile"), applied after sealing the envelope: the Palestine Gazette (#1516 of 15/08/46, p.778) mentions a "Saris Transport Service" company in ...

WWII 60m Imperial Airways/BOAC air mail rate (via Horseshoe Route) applied to 22 JULY 1940 postmarked cover from TEL AVIV to LONDON, franked using 10m & 50m Pictorial singles & tied by single strike of the local postmark; opened & resealed by censor 70/7333 using PC 22 light green tape & tied by mute boxed handstamp. The all-air 10g 60m Imperial Airways rate came into effect on 17 Sept. 1939, and ...

The WWII 125 mils air mail postage rate applied to 4 Dec 1940 postmarked airmail stationary cover, from TEL AVIV to BALTIMORE (USA), charged as per the July 1940 rate for 5g weight via the trans-Pacific route through Hong Kong & Singapore on BOAC and then by Pacific "Clipper" air service to the US (via the parallel Atlantic route, via the UK, the period fee was 150m), using 3-color Pictorials fran...

WWII 105m PanAm West Africa route to US: 6 JUNE 1943 postmarked registered air mail cover with "Clipper" endorsement from TEL AVIV to NEW YORK, under-franked 5 mils at 115m per period postage rate of 105m per 5g letter + 15m registration, using 100m & 15m Pictorials singles - but not taxed - and tied by 1x strike of REGISTERED TEL AVIV postmark + 2x on back (the dateline reads "JL" for JULY but th...

Unusual French VE-Day mail: 9 MAY 1945 Vichy-era postal card with French message from CASTRES to TEL AVIV, franked 2.40F pr period surface rate using mixed franking of pre-printed Petain 1.20f frank & French liberation period franks - untaxed/un-obliterated & rare as such since [collaborationist] Petain stamps were banned as of 1 November 1944 - ironic here as used on VE Day; tied by 2x cachets of...

Air mail from sea: 26 OCT 1946 cover on air mail stationary, sent by D. Tolkowsky on the ship S/S Gudrun at ISTANBUL (per return address) to female Ofra Bourla addressee in TEL AVIV - but posted as air mail from Greece (ATHENS?); slit open at left. Unusual postal link. The ship may have belonged to the Deutsche Levante-Linie/Transmarin shipping company. An unusual but familiar name in a locale kno...

Czechoslovakian airmail to Palestine: 22 AUG 1947 registered air mail cover from PRAGUE to addressee at childrens home ("meshek yeladim") at PARDESS HANNA, franked 21.80Kr per the period rate (8kr registry + 4kr basic overseas letter rate + 4x 2.40Kr additional weight) & tied by multiple strikes of the local postmark - an unusual combination of pre-WWII & post-WWII franks which were accepted for p...

Morocco - Jewish mail postal service: small commercial cover addressed to "Mr. Tayeb Mohamed Mekki", tied by blue octogonal negative seal handstamp belonging to the 56km long FEZ-MEKNES route, established by the Jewish Frenchman Messod Bensimon, a former headmaster of the Jewish Alliance School in Fez who later became a businessman, in January 1897. This route was one of 21 established by various ...

Late Mandate / Kofer HaYishuv mail: 21 APR 1948 commercial cover on "Doar" stationary from TEL AVIV to BNEI BRAK franked 10m per period letter rate using a Kofer HaYishuv label (Ba 133) instead of a Mandate frank, & tied by single strike of the local Mandate postmark - this rare, most such covers date from the interim period & after. Backstamped (unusually, as not a registered letter) 23 AP arriva...

1948 besieged JERUSALEM interim mail: local commercial cover franked 10m at postage period rate using 2nd local issue (Ba105) tied by JERUSALEM Sorting Office rosette postmark & 18 MAY 1948 dater (date unclear but deformity of rosette inner ring, in use since 13 May, borne out by other mail of same date with same deformity). The sorting office's postmark likely used here as cover posted uncancell...

1948 South African "service suspended" mail to Palestine: 20 MAR 1948 surface mail commercial cover from JOHANNESBURG (no return address) to 'Haaretz' newspaper TEL AVIV, franked 3½d & tied by 2 strikes of local postmark; posted 11 days before South Africa suspended surface mail service to Palestine but still affected it (probably before official suspension date) & marked 2x on front by 2-lin...

1948 PEDI first flight mail - numbered 28: airmail stationary cover from BROOKLYN to TEL AVIV franked 25c regular airmail rate, postmarked MAY 21 1948 (1st day of PEDI service) using both Type I and II cancels, and bearing very low serial number, 28 (out of 1288 carried on 1st flight); with US "First Flight" & locally applied CSA cachets on front; this 1st flight arrived in Haifa 2 June; opened ro...

1948 rejected Jerusalem interim franking: 20 JULY 1948 cover from JERUSALEM to HAIFA (about a month after the end of the siege), franked 10m per period domestic letter rate using the then available and accepted local Jerusalem interim stamps & tied by single strike of the Jerusalem-1 postmark; this franking was rejected by the MOUNT CARMEL post office in Haifa (Doar Ivri stamps were available in J...

2nd postage dues on Israeli overtaxed incoming British mail: JULY 1952 airmail cover from LONDON to TEL AVIV underfranked at 6½d as the period air mail rate as of 1 May 1952 was 9d, and taxed twice the deficiency of 2½d (= 5d) in the UK as 25 gold centimes per the period conversion rate of 1d = 5gc; the Israeli post office miscalculated the amount due (1d = 5 gold cent. = 4 prutot) and t...

DISCOVERY: 3 mils Mandate Pictorals stamp in apple green on undocumented vertically ribbed thick BROWN paper, as printed matter postage tied to 14 SEPT 1931 postmarked picture postcard (Old City Jerusalem - Eliahu Bros) sent from JERUSALEM to tiny locale CAMERLATA Italy; as bearing a message with 5 words or less, charged as surface mailed printed matter. The stamp is compound perforated horizontal...

The rare thin semi-transparent vertically ribbed 3 mils Mandate pictorial experimental coil stamp in pale-green (Ba #91e) serving as overseas surface printed matter postage affixed to 12 SEPT 1932 postmarked cover on imprinted business stationary, sent from JERUSALEM to BROOKLYN & tied by machine cancel; backstamped 30 SEPT SAINT JOHNS PLACE STATION arrival; unsealed per printed matter regulat...