EEF & 1st Interim period mail 1918-1920

Major rarity - 1 Piastre Jerusalem I setting I Ba #21a on mail: 9 Dec 1920 postmarked registered cover sent from JERUSALEM to BERLIN Germany, franked 2 Piastres per period postage rate (1pia overseas letter + 1 pia registry fee) using 2x 1pia stamps both in deep indigo violet color, of which one (at left) is setting I type 16 - 'shin' missing interior stroke, break in Arabic T, general vertical al...

MAJOR RARITY - 1 Piastre Jerusalem I SETTING I on mail: 20 Dec 1920 postmarked commercial cover on imprinted business postal stationary, sent from JAFFO to MARSEILLE France, franked 1 Piaster per period base letter postage rate using extremely rare Ba #21a stamp in deep indigo violet, with type 20 setting I overprint (key characteristics being large letter 'Yud' & letter 'Alef' with shortened righ...

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 undocumented. The i...

WWI era postcard from Allied liberated Palestine, circa. 1917-1918: French-language photo postcard, uncredited, depicting General Edmund Allenby inset on background image of the Old City of Jerusalem & French caption "The Holy City taken from the Turks [Dec. 1917]. Jerusalem and view of the road to Jaffa. (In the medallion a portrait of General Allenby, commander of the British troops in Palestine...

WWI/OETA Palestine era (Occupied Enemy Territory Administration) 1918-1920 military postal souvenir: unused picture postcard of "Tiberias and the Sea of Galilee", an artistic replica of a photograph, printed on uncredited bisected postal stationary titled "Post Card" and with sub-heading "Souvenir of the occupation of Palestine by the British troops"; the caption is in English and French, probably...

Very Rare early Mandate/OETA 2 Piastre ordinary letter double rate postage applied to 3 Apr 1918 postmarked cover sent from Army Post Office APO SZ 44 (JERUSALEM) to CAIRO, serving as twice the 20g letter rate to non OETA South regions including Egypt prior to the introduction of a 6m fractional rate (published 15 Aug. 1919); franking using horizontal pair of Blues #3 1pia & tied by 2x strikes of ...

Mandate EARLIEST recorded LATE FEE on VERY EARLY printed matter mail sent abroad applied to 2 Aug 1918 postmarked minature cover, sent from Army Post Office APO SZ44 (JERUSALEM) to officer at #14th Australian General Hospital (Abbassia Barracks in CAIRO, Egypt); as not endorsed "on active service" (OAS) the sender was likely a civilian & the cover liable for postage - here a very early instance of...

OETA Palestine mail abroad: WWI era censored cover from JERUSALEM to PARIS, franked 1p (Ba #10) & tied by strike of OETA-EEF JERUSALEM postmark (Sach #A6), slit open at left...

Very early incoming postage dues to OETA era Palestine: 9 Jan 1920 postmarked 2c imprint-franked postal stationary envelope, sent from freemasons lodge in NEW YORK to Bezalel art school founder Boris Schatz in JERUSALEM; tied by local machine cancel - but the cover was short-paid and taxed postage dues. The period letter postage rate was 2 cents only to Canada, Cuba, Mexico & Panama; for the rest ...

Earliest known Mandate era customs fee paid on registered letter: 21 Sept 1920 datestamped "Certificate of Posting of a Registered Postal Packet", with registry number 3422 filled in along with the sender's name and postal clerk's signature; the article sent was not a parcel as the fields for its postage paid (if any) were left blank. Of significance is that the certificate has been franked 2 1/2 ...

Mixed typographic & Jerusalem I franking on 30 Dec 1920 postmarked postal card sent from JERUSALEM to WIERUSZOW Poland, franked 4m per period postage rate for overseas postcards using 2m typograph Ba #6 in blue green + 2m with Jerusalem I setting II overprint in blue green (Ba #27 with 14:14 perforation) & tied by 2x strikes of the skeleton Sach #B1 postmark. At the bottom-center there are remains...

Rare censor-mark cover on Jerusalem mail: 9 AP 1919 registered commercial cover from JERUSALEM to PARIS, probably franked 2Pia per period rate (cut out from front) & marked by mute registry-label, tied by 2 strikes of double-ringed OETA-EEF JERUSALEM postmark (Sach-A6) on front + 1 on back; as of Feb. 1919 censorship in Palestine ended: as surface mail with transit via CAIRO, cover marked by rare ...

Rare combination: name-imprinted newspaper wrapper of The Palestine News (forerunner of the Hebrew Palestine "Haaretz" newspaper), sent from CAIRO to subscriber in TANTA & franked as printed matter using British stamp ½d & tied by Army Post Office APO postmark (unclear but not SZ10 of Cairo); addressee determined to be unknown & backstamped trilingual "unclaimed" Egyptian civilian post office...