EEF & 1st Interim period mail 1918-1920

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 Fran?aise en Palestine" violet cachet and also by very rare violet 2-line text handstamp "Le Haut Commissaire de la R?publique Fran?aise en Palestine" - this undocumented. The illu...

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...

Rare early Mandate/OETA 2 Piastre double rate applied to 3 APR 1918 postmarked cover sent from 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 B-indexed 29mm postmark + backstamped 5 AP...

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 instanc...

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...

Rare Mandate postmarks - SAFED (Dorf #D6, rated I-) as 2 Aug 1920 dated postmark tied to 2m frank as early OETA Palestine overseas printed matter cover on imprinted postal stationary, sent from SAFED to PHILADELPHIA; backstamped 5 Aug HAIFA transit using demilitarized GD #14 double-ring postmark (#36); originally sent unsealed per printed matter regulations, now sealed from pressure, corners cropp...

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 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...