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WWI Military Mail in Palestine (8)
Inter-war Foreign Postal Links 1918-1939 (9)
Baghdad Overland Mail (1)
Domestic mail 1918-1948 (6)
Post WWI Military Mail 1919-1948 (2)
WWII era Foreign Postal Links with Allied, Liberated & Neutral Countries (17)
WWII era Military Mail (12)
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Taxed Mail (4)
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90024
Split dome undocumented plate variety error on right marginal 8m Pictorial with
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Split dome undocumented plate variety error on right marginal 8m Pictorial with
Split dome undocumented plate variety error on right marginal 8m Pictorial with gutter (Ba #106B) + right marginal vertical pair 10m with gutters (Ba #97B), all tied to 30 OC 1933 postmarked air mail registered cover from HAIFA to MOUFROUGE France, per period Imperial Airways rate (15m + 13m registration), tied by 2x strikes of HADAR HACARMEL postmark on front & 1x on back + next day HAIFA-RAFA TP...
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90026
MAJOR DISCOVERY - the 15 mils EXPERIMENTAL COIL stamp on THICK vertically ribbed
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MAJOR DISCOVERY - the 15 mils EXPERIMENTAL COIL stamp on THICK vertically ribbed
MAJOR DISCOVERY - the 15 mils EXPERIMENTAL COIL stamp on THICK vertically ribbed paper, in dark greenish-blue, tied to WWII Australian forces in Palestine 2 JUNE 1941 postmarked cover from 2nd Brigade HQ Post Office W.2. (undocumented usage period: either KHASSA or QASTINA) to Barclays Bank JERUSALEM; as not marked "OAS" (on active service), the cover was handled as civilian mail and franked 15m -...
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WWI Military Mail in Palestine

90054
Early WWI German military mail in Palestine: 20 VI 1916 stampless color picture
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Early WWI German military mail in Palestine: 20 VI 1916 stampless color picture
Early WWI German military mail in Palestine: 20 VI 1916 stampless color picture postcard of Jerusalem, published by Vester, with German message marked as 'Fieldpost', sent from JERUSALEM to WURTTEMBURG Germany; tied by very rare violet 3-line German text handstamp "BEVOLLMÄCHTIGTER des I. EXPEDITIONSKORPS für deutsche und oesterr. -ungar. Heeres angehörige in Jerusalem" ('Plenipoten...
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90055
WWI Austrian military post - unusual routing: 13(?) II (FEB) 1918 photo picture
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WWI Austrian military post - unusual routing: 13(?) II (FEB) 1918 photo picture
WWI Austrian military post - unusual routing: 13(?) II (FEB) 1918 photo picture postcard of Absalom's Tomb in Jerusalem, published by Yaakov Bentov (Bezalel) publishers of Jerusalem, with message in Hungarian dated 6 Feb., sent by sender in the Austro-Hungarian Sanitation Service in Syria from DAMASCUS to locale in HUNGARY (unclear): originally posted stampless & tied by KuK FELDPOSTAMT 452b postm...
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90056
World War I French forces in Egypt-Palestine / Armenian Legion mail: 19-11-1916
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World War I French forces in Egypt-Palestine / Armenian Legion mail: 19-11-1916
World War I French forces in Egypt-Palestine / Armenian Legion mail: 19-11-1916 dated stampless picture postcard of the Golden Gate (Old City Jerusalem), published by the Cairo Postcard Trust, bearing short 'good wishes' message in French, from PORT SAID (Egypt) to LYON (France); mailed unfranked as military mail & tied by CORR D'ARMEES | PORT-SAID double-ring date-stamp + near full strike of nava...
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90057
WWI French "Occupied Enemy Territory Administration" in Palestine: circa. 1918 s
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WWI French "Occupied Enemy Territory Administration" in Palestine: circa. 1918 s
WWI French "Occupied Enemy Territory Administration" in Palestine: circa. 1918 stampless color picture-postcard of Constantinpole with space for address only from [JERUSALEM] to MOULINS tied by illustrated "Commissariat Française en Palestine" violet cachet and also by very rare violet 2-line text handstamp "Le Haut Commissaire de la République Française en Palestine" - this undocum...
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90058
British WWI military mail in Palestine: 23 AP 1917 stampless green honour envelo
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British WWI military mail in Palestine: 23 AP 1917 stampless green honour envelo
British WWI military mail in Palestine: 23 AP 1917 stampless green honour envelope (no printers mark) from FPO 163 (163rd Norfolk and Suffolk Brigade of 54th East Anglian Division, GAZA area) to NORWICH, tied by double-ring date-stamp Proud-D2. Posted 4 days after unit's involvement in failed 2nd Battle of Gaza (17-19 April). Opened gently at back....
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90059
British WWI military mail in Palestine: 22 OC 1917 stampless green honour envelo
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British WWI military mail in Palestine: 22 OC 1917 stampless green honour envelo
British WWI military mail in Palestine: 22 OC 1917 stampless green honour envelope (no printers mark) from FPO 160 (160th Welsh Border Brigade of 53rd Welsh Division, GAZA area) to CROYDON, tied by Proud-D2 double-ring date-stamp. Posted 5 days before unit's involvement in victorious Battle of Buqqar Ridge (27 Oct.) and 9 days before the victorious Battle of Beersheba (31 Oct.). Backflap torn open...
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Inter-war Foreign Postal Links 1918-1939

90060
1927 London II/Pictorals mixed franking: 20 JULY 1927 registered cover from JERU
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1927 London II/Pictorals mixed franking: 20 JULY 1927 registered cover from JERU
1927 London II/Pictorals mixed franking: 20 JULY 1927 registered cover from JERUSALEM (return addressed "German Colony") to ROHRBACH Germany, franked 28m using mix of then new 3m Pictorals (Ba #91) + 1pia & 3x 5m (Ba #75 - 2x with plate type 1 per Bale & Dorfman /#80 - this as type 218 of London I Somerset printing from the lower pane with dot next to lower left Arabic "1"), for 26m postage rate (...
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90061
American military maritime mail in Palestine: 7 APR 1926 commercial cover from U
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American military maritime mail in Palestine: 7 APR 1926 commercial cover from U
American military maritime mail in Palestine: 7 APR 1926 commercial cover from USS PITTSBURGH in HAIFA to Navy Savings Bank NEW YORK (United States/America), franked 2c per military mail rate & tied by ship's datehead + HAIFA | PALESTINE obliterator - token of a rare short visit by the ship; per crew diaries it appears the sailors visited Nablus (Shchem) by land and made their way to Haifa where t...
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90062
Airmail to ship: 1 SEP 1935 postmarked uprated air mail Mandate postal card with
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Airmail to ship: 1 SEP 1935 postmarked uprated air mail Mandate postal card with
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...
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90063
Overweight but untaxed Mandate air mail: 20 Aug 1936 postmarked cover from TEL A
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Overweight but untaxed Mandate air mail: 20 Aug 1936 postmarked cover from TEL A
Overweight but untaxed Mandate air mail: 20 Aug 1936 postmarked cover from TEL AVIV to Cathrinebjerg manor at VARMARK in Denmark, franked 15 mils per period letter rate on Imperial Airlines, using 15m single & tied by very rare TEL AVIV double circle date cancel with 3-letter month in date-stamp (Groten #C12, rated E / Sach #B44; with index letter "C" - undocumented) - however the cover was found ...
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90064
Very rare TEL AVIV double circle date cancel with 3-letter month in date-stamp (
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Very rare TEL AVIV double circle date cancel with 3-letter month in date-stamp (
Very rare TEL AVIV double circle date cancel with 3-letter month in date-stamp (Groten #C12, rated E / Sach #B44; with index letter "C" - undocumented) tied to 30 mils franking on 6 Nov 1936 postmarked air mail cover from TEL AVIV to Cathrinebjerg manor at VARMARK in Denmark, charged as per the period double rate (20g) mail on K.L.M. Royal Dutch Airlines using 2x 15m singles; backstamped 10 Nov FR...
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90065
Soviet covertly censored mail as "Damaged" mail during the Arab Revolt: 21 Jan 1
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Soviet covertly censored mail as "Damaged" mail during the Arab Revolt: 21 Jan 1
Soviet covertly censored mail as "Damaged" mail during the Arab Revolt: 21 Jan 1938 50 kopek imprinted postal cover sent from KIEV to TEL AVIV, franked at the period overseas letter rate & tied by single strike of local postmark; backstamped 31 Jan RISHON LE ZION transit-arrival (this routing possibly due to series of Arab attacks on transport arteries at this time, during the Arab Revolt) & seale...
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90066
Soviet covertly censored mail as "Damaged" mail: 19 Sept 1938 surface mailed cov
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Soviet covertly censored mail as "Damaged" mail: 19 Sept 1938 surface mailed cov
Soviet covertly censored mail as "Damaged" mail: 19 Sept 1938 surface mailed cover from SIMFEROPOL USSR to TEL AVIV, franked 50k per period overseas letter rate & tied by 2x (different?) strikes of the local postmark; backstamped 22 Sept ODESSA transit: although originating in the Crimea and in transit via a major port city, the cover was not sent by sea but by rail to KIEV where a French-language...
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90067
Dateless triangular cancellation on overseas mail/embarrassing postal packet: da
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Dateless triangular cancellation on overseas mail/embarrassing postal packet: da
Dateless triangular cancellation on overseas mail/embarrassing postal packet: dateless pre-WWII era minature business-card sized printed matter cover, from TEL AVIV to BERLIN and endorsed "Germania" in Hebrew, franked 3 mils per period overseas rate using Pictorials single stamp (on vertically ribbed thick paper, with compound horizontal perforation of 13.25 at base and 13.5 on top - this latter n...
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Baghdad Overland Mail

90068
Taxed eastbound mail: c. JULY 1945 commercial cover (from HAIFA?) to TEHRAN, sen
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Taxed eastbound mail: c. JULY 1945 commercial cover (from HAIFA?) to TEHRAN, sen
Taxed eastbound mail: c. JULY 1945 commercial cover (from HAIFA?) to TEHRAN, sent via overland service via Baghdad but underfranked at 10m (15m was period rate), tied by machine cancel; backstamped 29 JLY 1945 BAGHDAD transit, where cover censored (front); probably at this stage of transmission, cover damaged: backstamped 15 IX 45 TEHERAN arrival (6 week transit), marked for tax on front (uncollec...
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Domestic mail 1918-1948

90069
Rare 2 mils printed matter rate applied to The Union of Religious Writers weekly
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Rare 2 mils printed matter rate applied to The Union of Religious Writers weekly
Rare 2 mils printed matter rate applied to The Union of Religious Writers weekly paper "BaMishor" ('In the Field'), postmarked 23 Dec 1943 from from JERUSALEM to TEL AVIV & franked with 2m single stamp (Ba #90, on woven paper, in Prussian blue & 13.25 horizontal perforations as documented for this paper). Sent to a "Sh. Ch. Kook" - probably Rabbi Shlomo Kook (1929-1971), a nephew of Rabbi Avraham...
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90070
UNIQUE 2 MILS postage rate applied with COIL stamp to 12 March 1945 postmarked p
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UNIQUE 2 MILS postage rate applied with COIL stamp to 12 March 1945 postmarked p
UNIQUE 2 MILS postage rate applied with COIL stamp to 12 March 1945 postmarked postal card with non-commercial private correspondence (dated [Saturday] 10 March) from JERUSALEM to TEL AVIV, affixed with 2m single coil stamp - a discovery as of WOVEN paper in Prussian blue & compound horizontal 13.5 perforation on bottom and 13.25 on top - woven paper is documented with 13.25 horizontal perforation...
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90071
British stamp on post-WWII era Mandate civilian mail: unusual 5 JULY 1946 printe
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British stamp on post-WWII era Mandate civilian mail: unusual 5 JULY 1946 printe
British stamp on post-WWII era Mandate civilian mail: unusual 5 JULY 1946 printed matter cover all in Arabic from Kibbutz MISHMAR HAEMEK (return addressed "Ibrahim Nemery Al - Qantar" - KANTARA) to "Dear Sir Mordechai Presker, HaShiloach Street 9" HAIFA, franked 3 mils using Mandate pictorals stamp (on woven paper; 13.5 x 14.5 perforation) + single British 1d stamp (valued at 4x 1m) for a total of...
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90072
Privately couriered mail: cover from HAIFA to RISHON LE ZION franked 10m per dom
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Privately couriered mail: cover from HAIFA to RISHON LE ZION franked 10m per dom
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 ...
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90073
Free mail to Government departments - Income Tax Office: local HAIFA 5 Dec 1947
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Free mail to Government departments - Income Tax Office: local HAIFA 5 Dec 1947
Free mail to Government departments - Income Tax Office: local HAIFA 5 Dec 1947 postmarked long commercial registered cover from private citizen to Income Tax Office, franked 15m, only for the registry fee as mail to this Government department only, was free of basic postage - this was not published in the postal guides but set rather by the regulations of the Tax office, tied by 1x strike on fron...
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Post WWI Military Mail 1919-1948

90074
1936-39 Arab Revolt mail: 19 NO 1936 airmail cover on Lincolnshire Regiment stat
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1936-39 Arab Revolt mail: 19 NO 1936 airmail cover on Lincolnshire Regiment stat
1936-39 Arab Revolt mail: 19 NO 1936 airmail cover on Lincolnshire Regiment stationary ex FPO 22 (13th Infantry Brigade, TULKAREM) to OLD WOKING (UK), franked 3d per period rate air mail rate to UK using 2x 1½d Edward VIII definitive franks & tied by 2x strikes of FPO 22 postmark. The regiment was assigned to "special service" in Palestine between 18 July and 11 December 1936 (day of King's a...
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WWII era Foreign Postal Links with Allied, Liberated & Neutral Countries

90075
Late Fee on World War II mail: 20 Sept 1939 postmarked air mail cover from sende
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Late Fee on World War II mail: 20 Sept 1939 postmarked air mail cover from sende
Late Fee on World War II mail: 20 Sept 1939 postmarked air mail cover from sender at Palestine Railways HAIFA to STURMINSTER NEWTON (UK), endorsed "via KLM" & franked 30 mils reflecting the new postage rate, in effect since 17 Sept., using 2x 5m + 2x 10m stamps for the postage + 2m single for the regular-mail late fee - this was paid as it was posted with less than 15 minutes left to the 13:00 dis...
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