Stamps: Israeli Stamps & Significant Franks on Mail

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 ...

Doar Ivri 5 mils on undocumented pink paper: postally used single, tied by 9 Sept 1949 JERUSALEM-1 postmark; bears the physical characteristics of "thin white" paper (very thin, flexible paper; vertically milled surface on gum side). This is one of 3 such examples discovered and documented by this cataloguer, observed in use at least between Sept. 1948 and here Sept. 1949: the paper is actually pi...

Doar Ivri 5m TRANSPARENT PAPER franks (plate block group #26.2) on mail: 16 JULY 1948 local TEL AVIV registered cover from HAKIRYA (TEL AVIV government complex) franked 25m at the DO-2 postage period official mail rate (no letter fee + 25pr registration) using tabbed 3pc 5m vertical strip on thin yellow paper + 5m 1st plate block pair (star to right, CD 16.5mm, on transparent paper - the only issu...

Doar Ivri paper & setting discovery: 10 mils tabbed single affixed to limited edition (22 or 30) folio produced for the occasion of "The Opening of the Constituent Assembly of the State of Israel in Jerusalem, 14 February 1949" & tied by same-day dated strike of special event postmark. The stamp is on medium white type paper but in gray color (not "gray paper"), 11x11 perforation & with an undocum...

Doar Ivri 15 mils with tab settings 9 & 3a + stamp paper discovery: double vertical tab pairs of 15m stamps forming 60m postage affixed to 15 March 1949 postmarked express cover on imprinted business postal stationary, sent from TEL AVIV to HAIFA, tied by single strike of TEL AVIV-23 postmark; backstamped next day arrival; locally rerouted; cut open at top.Of significant note: the stamps are P...

Doar Ivri perforation varieties: Ba #4f 15mil stamp with rare 10:10 perforation on thin yellow paper (as evidenced by the horizontal lacey pattern) using setting A (May 1948 printing, probably from the group 74a per Shabtai, rated as Very Rare), here printed - unusually - on the UNGUMMED side (this issue is usually encountered printed on the gum side), MNH & off center as is typical of this perfor...

Doar Ivri 15 mils with wrong tab (Bale #4b) tied to small sized cover postmarked 31 JAN 1949 locally in TEL AVIV & cancelled by detainees illustrated slogan; rare stamp type on mail....

Doar Ivri 20 mils tabbed stamp with 10 x 11 perforation (Ba #5d), mint-hinged with original gum. The most valuable of the low denomination tabbed Doar Ivri stamps with this perforation variety....

Doar Ivri 10x11 perforated tabbed 20m stamp on late fee paid KLM 1st day airmail: Monday 14 June 1948 postmarked air mail cover sent from TEL AVIV to company in AMSTERDAM, initially franked 28 mils - likely an erronious calculation by the sender of 25m for the 35m base letter rate to the Netherlands (in this period the postage rate to some European countries like Italy and Britain was 25m) + 3m fo...

Major Doar Ivri discovery - 20 mils on 'Thick White' paper: 28 Dec 1948 postmarked local TEL AVIV registered cover franked 40 mils at the DO-2 period postage rate (15m letter + 25m registry fee) using a right marginal horizontal pair of 20 mils Doar Ivri stamps with control number 29203 & edge of 'slug' control symbol - per Bale belonging to plate group Ba126.1 (plate block catalogues at $1500...

Doar Ivri major discovery - 20 mils 1st printing on 'medium white' paper: as air mail postage on 23 March 1949 postmarked real photograph postcard (Ben Yehuda street in TEL AVIV) sent to FLORENCE Italy & tied by TEL AVIV-49 postmark; backstamped by Italian numbered sorting mark. Although the message only bears 3 words, there was no discounted airmail printed matter postcard rate at this time, ...

Major Doar Ivri discovery - 20 mils on DARK CREAM paper: 2x 20m Doar Ivri singles on undocumented dark cream paper of "medium white" type as 40 mils franking for 20m air mail postage affixed to 9 June 1949 postmarked real photograph postcard (YMCA building in Jerusalem) airmail cover sent from JERUSALEM to BUCHAREST Romania, tied by full strike of JERUSALEM-16 postmark; backstamped 14 June arrival...

Rare 20 mils Doar Ivri booklet stamp comprising part of 65m postage on 30 Sept 1949 postmarked air mail cover sent from TEL AVIV to NEW YORK; additional franks are complete series of 1949 IDF Insignia stamps (Ba #18-20) on their 11th day of use, all tied by 3x strikes of TEL AVIV-40 postmark. Stamp booklets of the Doar Ivri issue entered use on 9 Sept., here a stamp from one of the 3 very rare sta...

Doar Ivri block of 4x 50 mils stamps with 10:11 perforation (Ba #6d), MNH...

1951 New Years print error on unusual stationary: print error variety of 40pr single (Ba #57), where apostrophe in Hebrew date is missing on the right frank of a vertical pair, tied to a 24-10-1951 registered cover on a reused envelope, from KFAR SAVA to JERUSALEM, franked 40pr per period DO-2 registered letter rate; slit open at top. Note on reverse inverted watermarked text visible on the "Mataf...

Israeli stamp varieties: 5x3 (15pc) tabbed sheet of 1 Lira 1965-67 1st Town Emblems issue, perimeter printing date of 19 Dec 1974 & serial numbered 200446, on thick white paper & white matte gum - with 2 phosphor continuous (long) lines on either side of the stamp, Ba #323-IV; MNH & very rare: est. cat val = $900+...

Israeli stamp phosphor error: 2x3 (6pc) right corner marginal block of the 0.90is 1980-82 Shekel definitive issue with no phosphor lines (Ba #804eph); 12 Nov 1981 printing date & serial number 503836 in perimeter; MNH....

Israeli stamp phosphor error: 4pc right corner marginal block of the 1.10is 1980-82 Shekel definitive issue with no phosphor lines (Ba #817eph); 15 Jan 1982 printing date & serial number 142935 in perimeter; MNH, est. cat val c.$120+...

Israeli stamp phosphor error: 4pc right corner marginal block of the 1.10is 1980-82 Shekel definitive issue with no phosphor lines (Ba #817eph); 15 Jan 1982 printing date & serial number 142917 in perimeter; MNH, est. cat val c.$120+...