2) Minhelet Haam-Interim period

Mixed Mandate & Interim franking with latest known used coil stamp: 12 MAY 1948 postmarked local HAIFA express cover sent to northern district engineer, franked 50m at the period postage rate for 10m letter + 40m express fee, using block of 4x10m Ramat Gan interim stamps (Ba #26) + 1x 10m Mandate pictorial vending machine 'regular' coil stamp with 14 horizontal perforation holes (Ba #97) & tied by...

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...

Rare - "archive" strike of the interim KFAR ATTA postmark in violet (not black) tying an interim 3 mils stamp on an unaddressed cover; the notation is from the consginor - likely the meaning is that this strike was done without authorization after the interim postmarks were withdrawn from use....

Very early/"first day" interim registered cover: dateless local HAIFA registered cover from Tuberculosis League, franked 25m per postage period rate (10m letter + 15m registered fee) using interim Technion 5m & pair 10m (Ba13/14,with Haifa overprints) & tied by strike of interim postmark + 2x on back; tied by Haifa-12 (NAHLA Branch Office) registry-label 0019 - this very early use (0003-1672 were ...

Rare - properly fully handled registered mail in the interim period: 2-4 May 1948 period postmarked commercial cover on imprinted lawyer's office postal stationary, sent from PETACH TIKVA to KFAR SAVA, franked 25 mils for the period postage rate (10m domestic letter + 15m registry fee) using 3x interim stamps & tied by 2x strikes of the local dateless interim postmark on front + 2x strikes on back...

1948 interim double rate newspaper wrapper: undated 2-14 May 1948 period printed matter wrapper sent from "Educational Center" TEL AVIV (handstamped return address on back) to School in KFAR HADAR via RAMATAYIM post office & franked 6 mils for 2x 50 gram weight - a rare postage rate in general and especially for a wrapper in this period; scarce destination....

1948 interim double rate newspaper wrapper: undated 2-14 May 1948 period printed matter wrapper sent from TEL AVIV to Mizrachi Girls School in HAIFA & franked 6 mils for 2x 50 gram weight - a rare postage rate in general and especially for a wrapper in this period....

Unusual interim period postal handling: 2-14 May 1948 period postmarked local TEL AVIV sealed envelope, addressed to "H. Bloch at Wechler on #40 Ben Yehuda street" & bearing full correspondence written on the back(!) Franked 3 mils using an interim right bottom corner single as "printed matter" postage - accepted by the post office & tied by strike of the local interim postmark. Very unusual posta...

NAHALAL interim cancel in violet on commercial cover to workshop in TEL AVIV, franked 10m per period letter rate using pair 5m Mandate pictorial stamps; return addressed to "kvutzat haSheni" (youth movement group) at Nahalal post; opened gently at back. Docketed dispatch date of 4 MAY 1948 on front - sent on the 3rd day of operation of the Minhelet Ha'am postal service (in secondary towns and loca...

TIBERIAS 1948 interim cancel in black on commercial cover from business to addressee in small locale of YAVNEEL, underfranked at 5m using Mandate pictorial single instead of 10m for the period letter rate, but not taxed; slit open at bottom, vertical fold....

1948 interim Israel 10m Diaspora II stamp of Synagogue in Rome tied to imprinted patriotic cover addressed to TEL AVIV lawyer in "Eretz Israel being Liberated" & cancelled by single strike of black interim postmark...

1948 interim Israel local TEL AVIV registered commercial cover on long business imprinted postal stationary, franked 30m (10m letter + 15m registry fee + 5m for additional weight, 1m underpaid) & tied by multiple strikes of the head post office postmark; scarce as a business imprinted cover in this period....

1948 interim Israel period lot of 3x unaddressed covers bearing interim stamps - 2x tied by the TEL AVIV interim postmark & 1x by the RAMAT GAN postmark; 2x are backstamped with different types of the Mandate era Allenby Road branch office postmark; mint....

Discovery - "Large" TEL AVIV interim cancel in black tying Mandate 10 mils pictorial single stamp as inland letter postage applied to local TEL AVIV cover; slit open at bottom. The remarkable aspect of this postmark is that it is consistently larger than other Tel Aviv postmarks of the interim period (21mm within the inner ring & 34-35mm within the outer ring versus 20mm/33mm on standard postmarks...

1948 interim 2-period cover with frozen dated cancel: MAY 1948 undated registered commercial cover from loan society NATANYA to Anglo-Palestine Bank TEL AVIV, franked 25m per postage period rate using mixed interim & Mandate franks (4 mil Pipeline & 20 mil Pictorial) + registry-label 2309 (numbers 2183-2877 known used throughout interim period), tied by 2 strikes of interim postmark in violet on f...

Frozen dated Mandate cancel on interim mail: undated May 1948 period local TEL AVIV registered mail, franked 25m per period rate, using interim franks & tied by 2x strikes of the local interim postmark (none on the back - unusually, for registered mail); backstamped 5 MAY arrival using the double ring Mandate bar cancel - this being a "frozen dated" device (set to the last date of the Mandate post...

1948 interim Israel era dateless postal card with family correspondence sent locally in TEL AVIV & franked 10m with interim stamp for the period 7m inland postcard rate + tied by the local interim postmark; rare as a genuinely used interim period postcard...

Interim/Minhelet Haam printed matter wrapper franked 3m per period rate, sent from TEL AVIV to small locale of KFAR ONO ("via Tel Aviv post office") & sealed by period-style mimeographed address label. Interim period wrappers are a scarce postal item....

1948 interim Israel heavy weight cover: undated interim era large sized registered cover, sent locally within TEL AVIV (return address is that of the Nordau Hotel), franked 68m per period rate (15m registration fee + 10m initial 30g letter fee + 42m for 7x 30g additional weight, with 1m overpaid) using 3x stamp blocks (Ba #9/11-12) & tied by 3x strikes on front + 2x on back of the local interim po...

Rare interim period double-rate printed matter (pre-State official mail): 6-14 May 1948 period large vertical envelope, sent locally in TEL AVIV from P.O.Box 36 (the post office box of the 'Mapai' political party of David Ben-Gurion) to P.O.Box 303 of the Labor movement Archives; franked 6 mils for double printed matter postage & tied by single strike of the violet interim postmark of the head pos...

Arrival stamped interim mail + error stamp: undated 1948 interim registered cover on imprinted business postal stationary, sent from the TEL AVIV head post office and addressed to the Kiryat Shmuel neighborhood of TIBERIAS; franked 25 mils per the period postage rate (10m letter + 15 mils registry fee - one stamp is missing) using a rare undenominated (5m) Negev Pipeline stamp (Ba #32c) with Tel A...