Taxed Mail

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 ...

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 returned printed matter: 18 March 1948 postmarked window commercial cover sent from HAIFA to address at or serviced by the KIRYAT HAIM post office; as per manuscript notation on the back the addressee was "unknown"; the address window was crossed off with red pen strikes & "T.O." ("turn over") notation, and the cover was returned to the sender; front-stamped 22 March dispatch & likely same...

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 & stampin...

Rare postage dues postal history + postmark combination: 9 Nov 1921 postmarked cover sent from BETHLEHEM to WIESBADEN Germany, franked 10 mils using 4-color combination franking of Jerusalem II (1m) and III overprints & tied by 2x strikes of the local postmark - double ring Dorf #3 5 days before his (and Proud's) earliest known dates of use (14 Nov). Backstamped 10 Nov JERUSALEM transit.The postag...

The murkey printed matter postcard postage rate: 4 May 1924 postmarked color picture postcard (Nazareth) bearing 4-word message (plus the date & location), sent from NAZARETH to PARIS & franked 3 mils as per the period overseas printed matter rate (on account of the message bearing 5 words or less) & tied by single strike of the local post office. Evidently the intended rate was not accepted in li...

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 ...

Postage dues taxed Palestine mail to USA: 6 June 1939 postmarked small cover on imprinted British Army postal stationary of The Buffs, sent from TEL AVIV to BEVERLY Massachusetts USA, franked 10 mils & tied by single strike of the head post office postmark. The letter was shortpaid by 5 mils for the period 15 mils rate for air service to the UK and surface transport from there to the US (10m was t...

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...

Rare - taxed WWII army mail: 16 Aug 1940 postmarked local HAIFA commercial cover, sent stampless on OHMS official mail postal stationary from the "Orderly Room" of the Queens Own Yorkshire Dragoons (oval cachet on front) to a local business & separately endorsed "DRLS" in manuscript at the top. The cover was taxed by the civilian post office the same day for twice the deficient postage of 7 mils &...

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...

Unusual - underfranked for any postal service but not taxed: 14 Aug 1945 postmarked small air mail cover sent by hotel guest in TEL AVIV to addressee in TOULON France; the cover is not sealed and the sender may have intended to send the letter as "printed matter", affixed 4 mils as postage for the 5 mils surface mail printed matter rate, tied by a single strike of the Tel Aviv head post office pub...