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Typographs with missing perforation - bottom marginal block of 4x 1 millieme stamps in sepia (Ba #5) with missing horizontal perforation along the bottom perforation on plate positions 229-230 (and positions 217-218 above); no gum...

Typographs with missing perforation - bottom marginal block of 4x 2 milliemes stamps in deep green (Ba #6a) with missing horizontal perforation along the bottom perforation on plate positions 234-235 (and positions 222-223 above) + guide dot in center of the selvedge; mint-hinged...

Typographs with missing perforation - bottom marginal block of 4x 4 milliemes stamps in scarlet (Ba #8) with missing horizontal perforation along the bottom perforation on plate positions 230-231 (and positions 218-219 above); no gum...

Typographs with missing perforation - bottom marginal block of 4x 5 milliemes stamps in yellow-orange (Ba #9) with missing horizontal perforation along the bottom perforation on plate positions 230-231 (and positions 218-219 above); no gum...

Typographs with missing perforation - bottom marginal block of 4x 1 piastre stamps in indigo (Ba #10) with missing horizontal perforation along the bottom perforation on plate positions 234-235 (and positions 222-223 above) + guide dot in center of the selvedge; no gum, right vertical pair partly detatched...

Typographs 1 piastre rough perforation (Ba #10R) with plate position 150 of the lower pane, mint hinged...

Typographs 20 piastres in gray (Ba #15) with undocumented / unassigned plate position variety (white indenture on top right Arabic numeral panel), mint hinged...

Typographs 20 piastres in slate gray (Ba #15a), used; with undocumented / unassigned plate position variety (extra white 'box' adjoined to Arabic zero in lower left panel); tied by partial strike of dateless (1920) barred "POST OFFICE JERUSALEM" parcel post cancel (Sach #H25, rarity rated F). Of note the paper is very fibrous & front side is brownish - both undocumented....

Palestine Jerusalem I overprint EXTREME RARITY: 1 Piastre stamp (Ba #21a) with 15:14 perforation & setting I type 17 overprint (dashes slightly raised; complete Arabic overprint; vertical stem on Hebrew "Lamed"; vertical letter alignments as documented in Bale 2001 & 2010) + undocumented plate variety with thick "1" in bottom right panel, used & rare as such (only 5 used copies known to Bale), cat...

London I 5 piastres stamp with rough 15x14 perforation (Ba #67R), postally used...

London I rough perforated 9 piastres stamp in bistre (Ba #68R), used...

London I overprint varieties - 9 piastres with damaged Hebrew "Shin" (Ba #68), postally used...

London I overprint varieties - 10 piastres with damaged Hebrew "Lamed" (Ba #69), mint-hinged...

London I 10 piastres stamp with rough 15x14 perforation (Ba #69R), mint-hinged...

London II - 8 mils stamp in scarlet, plate A overprint, 14:14 perforation (Ba #78a), on thin transparent paper; mint very lightly hinged...

London II - 5 piastres stamp in purple, plate A overprint, 14:14 perforation (Ba #82), mint very lightly hinged...

London II paper discovery - 2x 20 piastres stamps with 15x14 perforation (Ba #89), one on standard white paper & one on undocumented yellowish paper; postally used...

GROUND-BREAKING DISCOVERY: 4 mils pictorial stamp in rose pink (Ba #92a) on thin semi-transparent vertically ribbed paper - undocumented; used. The transparency is evident by running the stamp over a dark object under standard room light (illustrated here): the object will be mostly and instantly visible aross the field; on standard [thick] vertically ribbed paper the object is not visible at all,...

Pictorials discovery: 4 mils gutter pair in undocumented brown ink color rather than purple-plum, on woven paper; this variation was disovered by this cataloguer, and this is the 2nd example observed; reference Ba #104, Dorf #104/104w. Although the paper types in both examples is light brown, the ink itself is brown in color. As on woven paper the stamp is from the 1940s. Mint never hinged with fu...

THE EARLIEST KNOWN USED BOOKLET SHEET STAMP: 28 OCT 1929 postmarked commercial cover on imprinted business postal stationary, sent from TIBERIAS to SAFED & franked 8m for the period postage rate for extra weight inland letter (5m initial 20g letter weight + 3m additional 20g weight), using pictorial series 3m single & 5m single with half-cropped left gutter (both on thick vertically ribbed paper) ...

Major Coil Discovery - 7 mils machine vended coil stamp: 13 Oct 1937 postmarked registered commercial cover on imprinted business postal stationary, sent from JERUSALEM to TEL AVIV & franked 18 mils for the period postage rate (5m base letter + 13 registry fee), paid using 2x undocumented types of coils stamps - vertical pair of 2 mils on thick vertically ribbed paper (with single pulled tooth on ...

Rare - 7 mils pictorial stamp in violet on thin semi-tranparent vertically ribbed paper (Ba #105b); used. Catalogue value (2010) = $600 as used single....

Extremely Rare - 8 mils pictorial stamp on semi-transparent vertically ribbed paper (Ba #106e), MNH with full original gum. Ben-Arieh certification enclosed. Catalogue value (2010) = $2200...

DISCOVERY: undocumented CA multiple crown watermark depicting narrow rounded crown with spiked top, on 10m Ba #97 used single stamp on woven paper; unlike the usual broader outward-extending type crown with broad upper rim and cross at top....