Interim-Minhelet Haam

1948 Interim/Minhelet Haam error franking on mail: interim 3m Tirat Zvi stamp with double vertical perforations (Ba #1a) & double overprint (both unlisted in Bale) + cropped lower-right edge, tied to undated local TEL AVIV printed matter cover on pre-printed return-addressed stationary; unsealed but partially closed due to gum adhesion....

Rare & discovery Herzl interim franks on cover: undated registered cover from HERZLIYA to TEL AVIV, franked 26m (10m base letter rate + 15m registry fee,1m overpaid) using 10m blue with 1946 Jewish State overprint (Ba #8) + 10m violet with red DOAR overprint (Ba #7c) + tete-beche pair of 5m green (Ba #5) + Ba #5 single - where Ba #8 and #7c are overprinted in blue - this undocumented; tied by mult...

Interim/Minhelet Haam 10m Weizmann stamp with faint red overprint (Ba #12a) tied to 25m interim-stamp franked registered cover from TEL AVIV to HAIFA, per period rate, tied by local interim postmarks on front & back + 13 MAI 1948 French-language dater on back serving as an arrival marking (Tel Aviv used the mandate cancellation devices for dating registered letters); rare Weizmann stamp, documente...

Scarce interim frankings on late interim period registered cover (3141 of 3202): uncatalogued red overprinted Warsaw Ghetto 10m stamp (Ba #22b) + marginal gutter Jewish Brigade 10m (Ba #16) + Ben Yehuda 5m (Ba #10) tied to local TEL AVIV cover mail from TEL AVIV-1 (Allenby Road), tied by 3x strikes of local postmark on front + 2x on back & French language 14 MAI 1948 arrival dater tied to back (la...

1st day Israel rarity: HAIFA overprinted interim 10 mils Warsaw Ghetto stamp on cream paper (Ba #22f) as domestic letter postage tied to imprinted HAIFA business postal stationary cover addressed to TEL AVIV & cancelled by Israeli trilingual postmark on 1st day of the Israeli postal administration, 16 May 1948; locally rerouted to a post office box; vertically folded, slit open at top. Interim fra...

1948 JERUSALEM interim mail: local commercial printed-matter cover franked 5m using rare 3rd local issue (Ba #107; 2m convenience overfrank as city limited to local issue denominations) tied by interim postmark and 23 JUN 1948 dater (3 days after start of use of Doar Ivri franks in city); returned as addressee left (manuscript on back); unsealed per printed-matter regulations. Rare commercial use ...

Arrival stamped interim mail + error stamp: undated 1948 interim registered cover on imprinted business postal stationary, sent from the TEL AVIV head post office and addressed to the Kiryat Shmuel neighborhood of TIBERIAS; franked 25 mils per the period postage rate (10m letter + 15 mils registry fee - one stamp is missing) using a rare undenominated (5m) Negev Pipeline stamp (Ba #32c) with Tel A...

Israeli trilingual tied to red overprinted interim frank: 1st day Israel 16 May 1948 local TEL AVIV cover, franked 10m per period domestic letter rate, using red overprinted interim Warsaw Ghetto frank (Ba #22b - unpriced on covers) & tied by single strike of the Israeli trilingual postmark of the Head Post Office + the National Loan cachet applied by the Tel Aviv sorting office; slit open at back...

1st Day Israel trilingual postmark cancelling Interim franks: 16 May 1948 postmarked local TEL AVIV commercial cover on imprinted business postal stationary, franked 10 mils per period domestic letter postage rate, using pair of 5m Weizmann Minhelet Haam stamps (with Tel Aviv 'Doar' overprints) & tied by the Head Post Office trilingual cancel on the 1st official day of independent Israel's postal ...

Official 1st day Israel mail with special franks + Late fee: 16 May 1948 postmarked commercial cover sent from doctor in REHOVOT (business cachet on back) to addressee in Kibbutz ALONIM, franked 19m for double weight letter and late fee (10m base rate + 6m extra weight + 2m regular letter late fee, with 1m overpaid), using different shade & different perforated 3m Defence & Development sta...

State of Israel - extended use of interim franks: 19 MAY 1948 registered commercial cover from PETACH TIKVA addressed to a company in TEL AVIV, franked 26m for the 25m period letter rate, using interim franks including left corner red overprinted Ben Yehuda 2m in blue (Ba #9d/Aloni #7b - both unpriced on a cover) & tied by 4x strikes of the reintroduced Mandate REGISTERED PETAH TIKVA postmark + 2x...

Israel era Mandate postmark tying Interim stamp - late dated rare combination: 21 May 1948 postmarked printed matter cover sent from BINYAMINA to TEL AVIV, franked 3 mils per domestic base printed matter postage rate using scarce red counterstamped interim stamp (Ba #1e) & tied by single full strike of the reintroduced local Mandate postmark - a rare combination in this period; unsealed per printe...