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WWI Military Mail in Palestine (7)
Baghdad Overland Mail (7)
Domestic mail 1918-1948 (4)
Post WWI Military Mail 1919-1948 (2)
WWII era Foreign Postal Links with Allied, Liberated & Neutral Countries (11)
WWII era Military Mail (6)
WWII era Foreign Postal Links with Axis, Related & Occupied Countries (6)

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Domestic mail 1918-1948

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Palestine Mandate rare 2m printed matter rate prepaid postmark on 1943 newspaper
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Palestine Mandate rare 2m printed matter rate prepaid postmark on 1943 newspaper
Rare 2 mils printed matter rate applied to The Union of Religious Writers weekly paper "BaMishor" ('In the Field'), postmarked 26 Jan 1944 from JERUSALEM to TEL AVIV & tied by 2m "postage paid" postmark (Sacher E15 - 4 months after his latest recorded date of 17 AU 43). Sent to a "Sh. Ch. Kook" - probably Rabbi Shlomo Kook (1929-1971), a nephew of Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak HaCohen Kook, who also contr...
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7/1944 WWII Jewish soldier mail ex Egypt to MERHAVIA w/rare/unrecorded postmarks
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7/1944 WWII Jewish soldier mail ex Egypt to MERHAVIA w/rare/unrecorded postmarks
Small locales / Mandate & rare Egyptian postmarks on Jewish soldier's mail: 9 JY 1944 stampless "honour envelope" noted as 'Hebrew' correspondence from FPO 655 (ABBASSIA, Egypt) to KIBBUTZ MERHAVIA, tied by strike of FPO postmark & backstamped same day #4 Base Post Office "EGYPT POSTAGE PREPAID" machine cancel with slogan "It Pays to Lend" (here with wide datehead left and normal datehead die at r...
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WWII era Foreign Postal Links with Allied, Liberated & Neutral Countries

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1945 WWII/Holocaust Palestine Mandate cover MAABAROT to Turkey, censored twice
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1945 WWII/Holocaust Palestine Mandate cover MAABAROT to Turkey, censored twice
WWII Mandatory postal links / small locales: 26 FE 1945 cover from MAABAROT to Jewish addressee ("Levi") in EDIRNE Turkey, franked 20m per period non-UK overseas surface rate & tied by full strike of local postmark; opened & sealed in TEL AVIV by censor KK/25835 (predates Sacher earliest known date of use by 2 months); marked by Turkish censor on front; backstamp covered by censor's tape - probabl...
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WWII era Military Mail

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3/1943 WWII stampless censored British military mail ex Libya to HAIFA via Egypt
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3/1943 WWII stampless censored British military mail ex Libya to HAIFA via Egypt
Wartime incoming military mail: 5 MR 1943 stampless On Active Service cover from FPO 515 (DERNA, Libya) to HAIFA, marked by local military censor 2286 & Deputy Chief Field Censor cachet (Egypt); opened roughly at top, repaired, complete. Rare origin....
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Post WWI Military Mail 1919-1948

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1936 Arab Revolt Palestine Mandate airmail cover 13th Brigade FPO 22 TULKAREM
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1936 Arab Revolt Palestine Mandate airmail cover 13th Brigade FPO 22 TULKAREM
1936-39 Arab Revolt mail: 30 NO 1936 airmail cover on Lincolnshire Regiment stationary ex FPO 22 (13th Infantry Brigade, TULKAREM) to OLD WOKING (UK), franked 3d per period air mail rate to UK using 6x ½d Edward VIII definitive franks & tied by 6x strikes of FPO 22 postmark (number unclear here but confirmed by unit assignment & another related cover). The regiment was assigned to "special se...
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WWII era Military Mail

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12-6-1940 WWII British army airmail from Palestine on 1st horseshoe route flight
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12-6-1940 WWII British army airmail from Palestine on 1st horseshoe route flight
Improvised air mail before 'Horseshoe Route' posted after 10 June: 12 JUNE 1940 airmailed green honour envelope from FPO 121 (Jaffa Road, JERUSALEM) to NUNEATON, tied by British airmail etiquette & franked 60m using 12x 5m Mandate pictorals (scarce multiple franking) per the Imperial Airlines/BOAC air mail service rate; the cover was posted 2 days after Italy's entry into the war and the dramatic ...
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WWI Military Mail in Palestine

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1917 WWI Holyland German army Palestine registered cover NAZARETH-DAMASCUS
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1917 WWI Holyland German army Palestine registered cover NAZARETH-DAMASCUS
WWI German military post: 29-12-1917 large registered cover from Deutche Feldpost 663 (unit located in NAZARETH since 9 Dec) to DAMAS (Damascus), unfranked as military mail and tied by postmark Ba M-14/FPOP 281 + very rare registry-label Ba R-40-7 of unit 663 & hand-marked "einschreiben"; received by postal service of the Fuel Storage Depot of Army Group F & backstamped twice 'Brief-Stempel Stokra...
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134278
1918 WWI Palestine Holyland Austro-German army registered cover VIENNA via Syria
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1918 WWI Palestine Holyland Austro-German army registered cover VIENNA via Syria
WWI Austro-German military post: JAN 1918 registered cover from Austrian "Liquidierender Rechnungsführer der | k. u. k. Gebirgshaubitzdivision i. d. Türkei" (Paymaster of the Austrian Mountain Howitzer Division) in Palestine to War Ministry, VIENNA; marked on front by 2-line violet unit cachet; carried to Syria where dispatched using German military post in DAMASCUS, postmarked 11-1-18 a...
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134942
1918 WWI Egypt British army YMCA stationary cover BAPO Z ALEXANDRIA to Palestine
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1918 WWI Egypt British army YMCA stationary cover BAPO Z ALEXANDRIA to Palestine
British WWI military mail in Egypt: 16 AP 1918 stampless OAS YMCA stationary (FB-YMC35) cover from BAPO Z (ALEXANDRIA) to JERUSALEM tied by scarce Proud-D7 skeleton postmark; passed local & Palestine censors (FB-PCC2/2); opened at top....
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7/1918 WWI Palestine British military mail APO SZ 19 unlisted postmark on cutout
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7/1918 WWI Palestine British military mail APO SZ 19 unlisted postmark on cutout
British WWI military mail in Palestine: cutout 24 JY 1918 strike of FPO SZ 19 (PALESTINE?) single dateline postmark: unlisted template in Proud & Firebrace and none listed as being inverted 5 and Z at base; locale assignment not documented in Proud, possibly EEF prior to BAALBEK (7 Nov)....
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1917 WWI Palestine British army cover ex APO SZ 14 DEIR EL BELAH + unit cachet
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1917 WWI Palestine British army cover ex APO SZ 14 DEIR EL BELAH + unit cachet
British WWI military mail in Palestine: 12 SEP 1917 stampless long OHMS cover from APO SZ 14 (DEIR EL BELAH, Palestine Lines of Communication) to Anglo-Palestine Bank ALEXANDRIA, tied by violet oval A [unclear] BATTERY | R.F.A. (Royal Field Artillery) cachet manuscript dated day before - Firebrace unlisted & single strike APO postmark Proud-D2; backstamped 13 SP BAPO Z transit & next day BAPO Z lo...
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9/1918 WWI Palestine British military cv FPO 162 Meggido unlisted pmk on cutout
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9/1918 WWI Palestine British military cv FPO 162 Meggido unlisted pmk on cutout
British WWI military mail in Palestine: cutout 26 SP 1918 full strike of FPO 162 (162 East Midland Brigade, MEGIDDO Palestine) double-ring Proud-D2 type postmark (this unlisted -with thick lettering in outer ring). Undocumented postal period for this postmark in Proud....
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1918 WWI Palestine British military mail APO SZ 36 Jericho postmark on cutout
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1918 WWI Palestine British military mail APO SZ 36 Jericho postmark on cutout
British WWI military mail in Palestine: cutout 18 JU 18 strike of scarce APO SZ 36 (JERICHO) single-circle Proud-D1 postmark index B; digit "6" faintly visible, here oddly shaped as per Proud....
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WWII era Foreign Postal Links with Axis, Related & Occupied Countries

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UNIQUE WWII 10/1939 Palestine cv to Nazi Germany received, processed & returned!
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UNIQUE WWII 10/1939 Palestine cv to Nazi Germany received, processed & returned!
TRANSMITTED & RETURNED wartime civilian mail to Third Reich: Sept-Oct 1939 period commercial cover on Etz Hayim Yeshiva stationary (marked "return postage guaranteed") from JERUSALEM to SILUTE "Lithuania", likely franked 15m (Ba #108) now missing, for overseas surface mail; as of 23 March 1939 the locale became part of German-annexed Memelland (not Lithuania), hence now processed by Wehrmacht cens...
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135373
1940 WWII Vichy French cover to Palestine Mandate after renewed postal relations
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1940 WWII Vichy French cover to Palestine Mandate after renewed postal relations
Wartime incoming civilian mail: 10-08-1940 uprated postcard from LYON (now Vichy France) to TEL AVIV franked 1.50Fr; received in Palestine as per hexigonal T5 Tel Aviv censor cachet. The UK suspended postal services to France and her colonies on 25 June 1940, on the same date the Vichy government was installed; Vichy severed diplomatic ties with the UK on 8 July following her attack on French Flee...
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WWII era Foreign Postal Links with Allied, Liberated & Neutral Countries

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12/1944 WWII censored cv ex Jewish soldier at VATICAN CITY to TEL AVIV via Egypt
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12/1944 WWII censored cv ex Jewish soldier at VATICAN CITY to TEL AVIV via Egypt
Wartime incoming civilian mail: 11 XII 1944 pre-paid Vatican City stationary postcard from VATICAN CITY to TEL AVIV, with short Hebrew greeting from "Yitzhak" (probably a soldier in the Jewish Brigade), tied by local machine cancel; stamped by "M" DC Arabic/Eng. censor in Egypt & Palestine censor (probably TEL AVIV); unusual origin - possibly related to a 'Papal Audience' with the Pope, Pius XII (...
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1943 WWII multiple-censored airmail Switzerland to Palestine Mandate via Germany
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1943 WWII multiple-censored airmail Switzerland to Palestine Mandate via Germany
Wartime incoming civilian mail: 8 VI 1943 airmail cover from LUGANO to JERUSALEM, franked 50Rp (40Rp total postage for 5gr including 10Rp for airmail + 10Rp additional weight) and marked for intended start of routing (rectangular cachet on front): Zurich to Stuttgart (where censored) by Swissair or DHL, by air from Stuttgart to Sofia, by rail to Istanbul, rail to Syria and Palestine, where censore...
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WWII era Foreign Postal Links with Axis, Related & Occupied Countries

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WWII/Holocaust era Jewish mail from Hungarian occupied KLAUSENBURG to TEL AVIV
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WWII/Holocaust era Jewish mail from Hungarian occupied KLAUSENBURG to TEL AVIV
Wartime incoming civilian mail: 8 X 1940 cover from KOLOZSVAR (Klausenburg) Hungary to TEL AVIV, franked 40f per period surface rate to Palestine; passed T5 censor (Sach-21a) in TEL AVIV. Rare origin & period: locale occupied by Hungary a month earlier (from Romania 11 Sept.); Hungary entered WWII shortly after, on 20 Nov. 1940. Locale was home-town of important Sanz-Klausenburg Hassidic dynasty. ...
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WWII era Foreign Postal Links with Allied, Liberated & Neutral Countries

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1940 WWII airmail Greece to Palestine Mandate censored & passed exchange control
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1940 WWII airmail Greece to Palestine Mandate censored & passed exchange control
Wartime incoming civilian mail: 8 II 1940 uprated airmail postcard in French (family correspondence) from THESSALONIKI to TEL AVIV, pre-franked 5d + 13d additional for airmail, tied by 2 strikes of local postmark + Greek airmail etiquette; postcard tied by double-ring handstamp of the "exchange control" authority (ΥΠΗΡΕΣΙΑ ΠΡΟΣ...
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1946 postwar WWII Holocaust postcard mail Poland to Jewish soldier Palestine
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1946 postwar WWII Holocaust postcard mail Poland to Jewish soldier Palestine
Postwar incoming civilian mail: 31-5-1946 uprated postcard in Russian on Polish postal stationary from Mariam Berlas SŁUPSK Poland to Jewish soldier (Erus Schutzer) in 179 Palestine Company Royal Army Service Corps General Transport (possibly HAIFA), with pre-printed frank of 1.50Zł + additional 1.50Zł attached & tied by 2 strikes of local postmark. Marked possibly by Polish cens...
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1945 post WWII Holocaust cover Soviet occupied Poland - Jewish soldier Palestine
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1945 post WWII Holocaust cover Soviet occupied Poland - Jewish soldier Palestine
Postwar incoming civilian mail: 29 V 1945 registered postcard in English on Polish postal stationary from Mariam Berlas STRYI Poland to Jewish soldier (Erus Schutzer) in 468 Palestine Company Royal Army Service Corps General Transport (HAIFA), franked 20kop (damaged) & tied by local postmark; passed Soviet military censor & H12 Palestine censor (Sach-Q22 - 3 years after his last known date of use)...
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1942 WWII mail cover Palestine Mandate to undercover address ISTANBUL via ANKARA
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1942 WWII mail cover Palestine Mandate to undercover address ISTANBUL via ANKARA
Wartime outgoing mail (undercover address): 24 FE 1942 surface mailed cover from JERUSALEM to ISTANBUL, franked 15m (3 color franking) per period surface mail rate & tied by 2 strikes of single-circle local postmark; passed J30 Palestine censor; backstamped 2-3-1942 ANKARA transit (suggesting inland transport by rail, not sea) & 4 March arrival Cut open at top. The curious brevity of addressee's n...
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12/1943 WWII/Holocaust censored Jewish refugee mail from Turkey to BAT YAM
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12/1943 WWII/Holocaust censored Jewish refugee mail from Turkey to BAT YAM
Wartime incoming Jewish refugee mail: 25-12-1943 surface mailed cover from ISTANBUL (no return address) to BAT YAM, franked 10k & tied by strike of local postmark on front + machine cancel on back; opened by Palestine Censor KK/23346 (Sacher Q9 type - this unlisted) & stamped twice by "Please request sender..." full name/address 4-line TEL AVIV-type Sach-Q52 instructional marking front/back (4 mon...
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Baghdad Overland Mail

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11/1946 late period westbound overland airmail, TEHRAN to JERUSALEM via BAGHDAD
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11/1946 late period westbound overland airmail, TEHRAN to JERUSALEM via BAGHDAD
Late period westbound Baghdad overland mail from Iran: 9 XI 1946 registered airmail cover from Jewish Agency TEHRAN to the Jewish National Fund head office JERUSALEM, franked 26R on back & tied by 2 strikes of local postmark; backstamped 13 NOV 46 REG BAGHDAD transit postmark & 15 NOV 46 REG JERUSALEM arrival; opened roughly at top, complete. Interestingly not censored in Palestine. Rare origin & ...
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