Postmarks & Postal Markings of Israel

1948 JERUSALEM Interim & State mail - TRIPLE RARITY: 15 JULY 1948 printed matter commercial cover on loan society stationary ("Totzeret HaAretz" manufacture) from JERUSALEM to BEIT HAKEREM, franked 5m per period printed-matter rate a) using Local III issue stamp (with slanted "5" - rare on covers) & b) tied by full strike of JERUSALEM-1 Sorting Office postmark with METAL DATE SLUG - this v...

1948 post-siege JERUSALEM late use & acceptance of interim stamp + red postmark: 26 July 1948 postmarked cover to TEL AVIV, franked 10m using 2nd local issue interim stamp & tied by Israeli trilingual JERUSALEM-1 head post office postmark in red ink - here late use of the interim stamp, over a month after Doar Ivri stamps reached Jerusalem (20 June), and late acceptance of it outside of th...

INVERTED Hebrew date slug: 27 JULY 1948 local JERUSALEM printed matter newspaper wrapper, franked 3m per period rate & tied by JERUSALEM 4 (Main Post Office) cancel whose metal Hebrew date slug is upside down. Undocumented error + rare as wrapper....

SUBSTITUTED letter in Hebrew date slug on MIXED post office cover: local JERUSALEM 25 AUG 1948 stampless registered official mail cover on requisitioned OHMS stationary from the Income Tax Authority, tied by 1 full strike on front + 2 on back of JERUSALEM 5 (Main Post Office - Registered letters department) postmark whose Hebrew month is spelled here Alef-Kaf instead of Alef-Bet (for "Av"): the ch...

Cyprus detainees illustrated slogan cachet tied 2x on front of 3 FEB 1949 postmarked stampless official mail cover sent locally in TEL AVIV from the Custodian General; vertically folded, opened gently at back...

Israeli ship paquebot mail: 24-10-1949 postmarked cover sent to HAIFA from Israeli ship SS Kedma, franked 15pr per DO-2 period domestic letter rate & tied by ship's special illustrated cancellation; opened at back, some folds/creases....

1950 1st airmail / PO's, rates & routes: SEPT-OCT 1950(?) New Years period greeting card from JAFFO to HAIFA franked 5pr at the DO-2 period printed matter rate using single 5pr (Ba32) tied by scarce printed matter bulk mail dateless triangular "Jaffo" cancellation. Some damage to the stamp from storage conditions....

1950 1st airmail / PO's, rates & routes: 8-11-1950 "Lacol" austerity period stationary registered cover from HAIFA to TEL AVIV franked 40pr at the DO-2 period rate (15pr letter + 25pr registration) using pair 5pr (Ba32) + tabbed 15pr 1949 2nd Coinage (Ba24) + tabbed 10pr 1950 3rd Coinage (Ba43) + 5pr 1950 New Year (Ba38) tied by 3 strikes of Haifa-8 postmark on front + 2 on back, and scarce datele...

1st day Israeli trilingual postmark error + tied to Interim period frank: 16 MAY 1948 latin-dated local HAIFA cover, franked 10m per period domestic letter rate using single interim Minhelet Haam (Tel Aviv overprinted) Ramat Gan 25th anniversary frank (Ba #26) during the extended grace period of 14-22 May & tied by single strike of the HAIFA Head Post Office Alef-shift cancel - this mistakenly Heb...

Reintroduced Mandate postmarks from 2 cities: 1 JY 1948 HAIFA TELEGRAPHS single-circle date-stamp (GD-79 - 11 months after their last known date of use) tied to trilingual Mandate telegram form PT 6A & tied by 4 JY 48 JERUSALEM receipt using single-circle date-stamp; the JERUSALEM cancel believed used at Rehavia in early State period until receipt of Israeli trilingual devices - on telegrams until...

Rare "1590" year date error on 27 April 1950 date slug of HAIFA head post office postmark trying 15pr franking on domestic cover on imprinted business postal stationary of the Technion's electrical testing lab sent to the Institute of Standards in TEL AVIV; machine backstamped same day transit arrival; opened gently at back. Superb strike of this error postmark. This cataloguer has observed this d...

Postmark double-error: inverted date-slug on 6-07-1948 dated strike of NATHANYA postmark on postcard to HAIFA; the Hebrew and English dates don't match: if the Hebrew date is correct the English date should have been 26 July - but the "2" is missing on an otherwise clear strike....

1948 JERUSALEM interim mail: commercial cover on OHMS requisitioned stationary to TEL AVIV franked 10m at postage period rate using 2nd local issue (Ba105) tied by deformed Sorting Office rosette postmark on last day of use & 20 JUN 1948 dater. The Sorting Office's postmark likely used here as cover posted uncancelled in a street mail box. Slit open at top. Scarce; estimated value $250+...

1st day use of JERUSALEM Head Post Office "Liberation" postmark as full strike on 21 JUNE 1948 postmarked cover to HAIFA, tied to 10m frank of 2nd locals issue Ba105; torn open at bottom & repaired; cover complete, rare....

6 JY 1948 reintroduced JERUSALEM Mandate-period single-circle datestamp tied to local JERUSALEM trilingual Mandate telegram form PT6, date-stamp use here pre-dating Glassman's earliest known date of use "mid-July"; continued in use until Oct. when replaced by Israeli trilingual postmark....

DISCOVERY: [13] AUG 1948 period JERUSALEM-6 postmark without the date slug, tied to registered cover to the local council of BAT YAM from a Doctor Ben-Zion in Kiryat Shmuel, franked 25m per period rate & backstamped by full strike of dateless JER-6 cancel + 13 Aug 1948 TEL AVIV (Chet of Av as visible on the Hebrew dateline) transit & 15 Aug 1948 BAT YAM arrival (the 2-day transit is probab...

Small locales / Last Day 17-02-1949 dated full strike of the JERUSALEM "Constitutent Assembly" ("HaAsefa HaMechonenet") postmark (Nacht 216/1) on JNF stationary cover to addressee at KIBBUTZ MA'AGAN near MOSHAVA KINNERET, franked 15pr per DO-2 postage period domestic letter rate; vertical fold...

PROOF strike of the rare 1st Israeli JERUSALEM machine-cancel (Nach-289/21; EG-75), 1949: here with Hebrew date of "A Adar 5709" and Latin date of "10 1 1949" (the two don't match). This cancel was used only on morning of 21 Feb 1949 (Kaf-Bet Shvat), a locally manufactured head on a Mandate-era machine - but it broke down and could not be fixed. Considered the rarest of Israel's cancellations....

PROOF strike of 2nd type JERUSALEM machine cancel (Nacht-289/22), dated -1.9.1949 & tied to unaddressed cover franked 5Pr - event confirmed in Glassman; 1st commercial use occurred 20 Sept. A rare cancel with few surviving commercial covers....

UNIQUE POSTMARK: RED JERUSALEM Head Post Office postmark dated 11 NOV 1949 tied to locally addressed stampless and unsealed cover. This is not the red "Paye" postage paid postmark but rather the late-issued unnumbered trilingual type (Nacht #289/1) which entered used on 4 May 1949, here uniquely used with red ink as a "postage paid" marking to indicate pre-payment of printed matter postage, and th...

1590 (1950) date error TWICE: JERUSALEM Israeli Vaad HaPoel HaZioni slogan cancel with 27 April 1590 "1950" date error tied to 55Pr franked express cover to TEL AVIV on Pension/hotel postal stationary, backstamped same day arrival by TEL AVIV-22(?) post office postmark with same "1590" date error!...

Last Day slogan cancellations: local JERUSALEM 24-10-1950 postmarked mimeographed invitation document from the Israeli Association of Political Science Studies & franked 5pr per the period printed matter rate using a single 5pr stamp & tied by strike of UNO Day illustrated slogan cancellation (Nacht #30) on its only day of use; rare type of printed matter mail....

Prepaid markings: lot of 3x 1951 era covers with JERUSALEM and TEL AVIV red pre-paid postmarks...

Early Jerusalem machine cancels: 29 OCT 1951 official mail cover from the Foreign Currency Department in TEL AVIV to Bank Leumi in JERUSALEM, franked 15pr per the DO-2 period letter rate using an overprinted Official Mail stamp (Ba 20b) tied by the local postmark & backstamped next day arrival using the scarce 2nd machine cancel type (Nacht-289/22; EG-76, about which he writes "not many covers str...