Taxed Mail

Taxed eastbound mail: c. JULY 1945 commercial cover (from HAIFA?) to TEHRAN, sent via overland service via Baghdad but underfranked at 10m (15m was period rate), tied by machine cancel; backstamped 29 JLY 1945 BAGHDAD transit, where cover censored (front); probably at this stage of transmission, cover damaged: backstamped 15 IX 45 TEHERAN arrival (6 week transit), marked for tax on front (uncollec...

Untaxed mail Jewish Brigade soldier: 12 JUNE 1946 family correspondence cover from TEL AVIV (return addressed GIVATAYIM) to relative in Jewish Brigade (assigned to British Army on the Rhine), franked 10m per inland letter rate (should have been 20m for non-UK surface mail - but not taxed, probably because to a soldier), tied by strike of local postmark; backstamped 22 JU 46 FPO 690 (ANTWERP) arriv...

Mandate customs inspected mail: 14 AUG 1947 backstamped registered air mail cover from hotel guest at LAKE PLACID New York USA to addressee in TEL AVIV, franked 70c; backstamped next day NEW YORK transit & 19 Aug TEL AVIV arrival; possibly on account of the extra weight paid for the cover, customs unusually opened and inspected the item before re-sealing it untaxed, with 2x PT 231 labels &...

Palestine Mandate untaxed returned printed matter: 26 July 1934 postmarked printed matter cover sent from Bank Ashrai in TEL AVIV to addressee in PETACH TIKVA, meter franked 2 mils per period inland printed matter postage rate (Sach #G40 - 2 years after his latest known date of use); front-stamped same day arrival with single circle postmark (Dorf #5). The Petach Tikva post office subsequently fou...

Mandate taxed airmail: 30 DEC 1936 air mailed postal card sent from TEL AVIV to FRANKFURT (Germany), posted only with the imprinted 8m franking rather than at 10m for the airmail rate and so underpaid; marked for postage dues with manuscript T10c probably still in Palestine - twice the 2m deficiency per the period gold centimes rate of 1c = 1d British = 4m Palestine mils - and also marked such in ...

Rare WWII era cancelled postage dues + 2x taxation methods: 7 Jan 1940 postmarked surface mailed cover sent from TEL AVIV - couriered as return addressed Kibbutz Shamir at post office box address in HAIFA - and addressed to International Red Cross in GENEVA Switzerland; franked 10 mils - but this was short paid for the period 15m rate to non-UK destinations. The cover was marked on front for posta...

Mail reforwarding tax on incoming Mandate mail: 25 March 1945 postmarked double weight registered air mail cover, sent from JERUSALEM to LONDON & franked 95 mils for 15m registry fee + 2x 10g weight at 40m each; tied by 2x strikes of the oval REGISTERED JERUSALEM postmark on front & back + registry label of the head post office. The cover was subsequently redirected to HINDHEAD in Britain & tied w...

Misidentified overseas printed matter taxed as a shortpaid letter: 19 Dec 1947 postmarked cover sent from CHICAGO to TEL AVIV, franked 3 cents per overseas surface mailed printed matter & unsealed per printed matter regulations (but not endorsed as such on the cover); nevertheless to keep the contents safe during transatlantic transport the sender used a Christmas label to shut the lip of the unse...