Israeli Overseas Taxed Mail 1948-1959

1948 couriered mail from Britain - taxed postage dues in Israel: unpostmarked cover addressed to a Doctor in TEL AVIV "Israel" with fragmentary return address in "ENGLAND", carried by a person by sea or air and deposited into a letter box unfranked; subsequently taxed on 20 June 1948 by the TEL AVIV head post office - but charged only for the deficient 10 mils inland letter postage, a concessionar...

The 50 mils 1st series Israeli postage dues stamp as part of 60m tax charged to allegedly short paid 15 Sept 1949 postmarked air mail cover sent from BRAKPAN South Africa to TEL AVIV & franked 6d, tied by local machine cancel.The cover was sent unsealed as evidenced by the offset imprint of the machine cancel on the back below the backflap + the full gum of the flap: the cover was likely an undecl...

Couriered mail from IRAN - taxed: Jan 1950 era commercial cover on imprinted stationary all in Farsi, from TEHRAN to female addressee in TEL AVIV, couriered to Israel & deposited unfranked into a post box; probably due to the unknown and apparent Arab language the cover was transferred to the censor in Tel Aviv (Tav 1029) which opened and resealed the cover at back, whereupon the translated ad...

1956 taxed air mail to Austria: 11 Jan 1956 postmarked airmail cover sent from BINYAMINA to Israeli Consulate in VIENNA & franked 1.20L instead of 1.50L at the FA-5/6 period rate to Europe (1.20L was the rate only for Cyprus), paid using vertical pair 60ag 1955 Tribes series stamps (Ba #123) tied by a single strike of the BINYAMINA-2 postmark; subsequently manuscript marked for tax at a rate o...

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 p...

1957 taxed incoming French postcard: 18 July 1957 postmarked airmailed picture postcard (Morzine), sent from small locale of MORZINE to TEL AVIV & franked 20F, tied by machine slogan cancel; evidentally the postcard was short-paid (there was a postage rate revision on 1 July which the sender may have missed) & marked for tax by the French postal service using a triangular T taxe mark.Pen manuscrip...