5) 14-16 May 1948 1st Day Israel Mail

Highest registered interim/3 period cover from Haifa Head Post Office: dateless registered cover on trilingual business stationary from HAIFA head Post Office to "Cafe Noam" TIBERIAS, franked 25m per postage period rate using interim 2x 10m Immigrant Ship (note print variations) & 5m Weizmann (Ba 11/23, all with TEL AVIV overprints) & tied by 2 strikes of interim dateless cancel of Head Post Offic...

Interim franking on 1st day Israel mail: 16-05-1948 postmarked local TEL AVIV cover (return addressed Melchett street) franked 18m using faintly overprinted interim stamps, for 10m domestic letter rate + 6m additional weight (with 2m overpaid), tied by 2x full strikes of the new Israeli trilingual cancel of the head post office; slit open at top. A scarce stamp/postmark combination possible only b...

DISCOVERY - True 1st Day ISRAEL 15 MAY 1948 cover + with *INTERIM* postmark: local HAIFA [registered] cover from the AHUZAT SAMUEL town agency to addressee Lilly Meissner at nearby 9 Vitkin street in AHUZA, franked 40 mils for the period registered letter postage rate with extra weight (10m letter + 15m registry + 2x 6m additional weight, with 3m overpaid) using top-left corner block of 4x blue in...

DISCOVERY - True 1st Day ISRAEL 15 MAY 1948 cover + with *INTERIM* postmark: local HAIFA [registered] cover from the AHUZAT SAMUEL town agency to addressee at KIBBUTZ GAATON (next to Nahariya), franked 33 mils for the period registered letter postage rate with extra weight (10m letter + 15m registry + 6m additional weight, with 2m overpaid) using 5x different interim stamps (none of philatelic sig...

True 1st day Israel mail 15 May 1948 via besieged NAHARIYA emergency mail service: stampless & undated commercial cover on inprinted business stationary (H. Maisler printing factory), return addressed HAIFA and addressed to the Local Council in NAHARIYA; couriered to the 'Ogen' shipping agency at Haifa harbour which transported the letter by sea using the 'emergency sea mail service' operating bet...

1st Day Israel mail addressed to TEL AVIV AIRPORT day after being bombed: 16 May 1948 postmarked cover sent locally in TEL AVIV (return address on lower-front) to a Yochanan Breslauer, "ground worker" at "Air Port" & franked 10 mils per inland letter rate using interim period Immigrant Ship stamp (Ba #23) & tied by strike of local trilingual postmark on its first day of use - interim stamps were t...

Exact 2m Late Fee on 1st Day Israel mail: 16 May 1948 postmarked printed matter cover sent locally in TEL AVIV, franked 8 mils using 3m (10x11 perf) & 5m single Doar Ivri stamps for double printed matter postage (2x 3m = 6m) + 2m LATE FEE for the late submission of mail, tied by 2x strikes of the head post office postmark - here a very rare instance of the fee being paid exactly as there were ...

Interim franking / small locale mail on 1st day of Israel: 16 MAY 1948 postmarked printed matter cover between health maintenance organizations, from TEL AVIV to Moshav EIN VERED, franked 3m per printed matter rate using an interim single stamp & tied by full strike of the head post office; unsealed per printed matter regulations; light vertical fold. Ein Vered, located between Herzliya and Netany...

1st day Israel cover with postmark error - discovery: 16 MAY 1948 postmarked local HAIFA registered cover, franked 25m at the DO-1 period postage rate (10m letter + 15m registration) using 5m + 20m (Ba2/5) franks tied by single full strike of 1st day HAIFA-1 trilingual postmark on front + 2 on back - where the Hebrew dateline's year has a "Gimmel" letter rather than a "Tav", undocumented; cut open...

Israeli trilingual tied to red overprinted interim frank: 1st day Israel 16-5-1948 local TEL AVIV cover, franked 10m per period domestic letter rate, using red overprinted interim Warsaw Ghetto frank (Ba #22b - unpriced on covers) & tied by single strike of the Israeli trilingual postmark of the Head Post Office + the National Loan cachet applied by the Tel Aviv sorting office; slit open at back. ...

1st Day Israel trilingual postmark cancelling Interim franks: 16 May 1948 postmarked local TEL AVIV commercial cover on imprinted business postal stationary, franked 10 mils per period domestic letter postage rate, using pair of 5m Weizmann Minhelet Haam stamps (with Tel Aviv 'Doar' overprints) & tied by the Head Post Office trilingual cancel on the 1st official day of independent Israel's pos...

Official 1st day Israel mail with special franks & postmark: 16 May 1948 postmarked commercial cover sent from doctor in REHOVOT (business cachet on back) to addressee in Kibbutz ALONIM, franked 19m for double weight letter (10m base rate + 6m extra weight, with 3m patriotic overpayment - interim stamps could not be converted to the new Israeli postage stamps), using different shade & different pe...

1948 interim mail/Nahariya 7th slogan: 14 May 1948 "Last Date" (of Mandate)/Independence Day commercial cover (Doctor's return address stamped on front) from beseiged NAHARIYA to Barclays Bank HAIFA, franked 10m per period letter rate using Haifa overprinted interim Technion stamp tied by blue local Minhelet Ha'am post office postmark (opened locally since 6 May; prior to that cancelled by Post Of...

Israel independence day 14 May 1948 interim besieged Jerusalem letter box mail: local JERUSALEM addressed double weight letter, franked 15 mils (10m base letter + 5m for 6m additional weight) using 5m & 10m stamps of the 2nd local series (Ba #104/105); prepaid and entered uncancelled into a letter box - subsequently processed by the sorting office which cancelled the franks with its unique loc...

1948 Besieged Jerusalem incoming convoy mail from outside Tel Aviv, with Doar Ivri franking: 16 MAY 1948 (official 1st day of the Israel postal service) commercial cover on local branch Anglo-Palestine bank stationary from RISHON LE ZION to the bank's branch in JERUSALEM, franked 10m using perforated Doar Ivri single tied by reintroduced Mandate double ring cancel: at this time no mail could reach...

Besieged Jerusalem 16 May 1948 dated commemorative 'Independence' postmark tied 1x on front + 1x back to local registered cover franked 25m (for 10m domestic letter + 15m registry fee) using 2nd local issue single stamp; postmarked at JERUSALEM-1 (Mea Shearim branch post office); opened gently at back....

Besieged Jerusalem 16 May 1948 dated commemorative 'Independence' postmark tied to 10m 1st local issue stamp on cover addressed to Secretariat of tiny locale KIBBUTZ SARID via Haifa post office; opened gently at back. This cover could not be dispatched at the time due to the siege on Jerusalem & was transported on the 2nd convoy of 21 June, which carried mail accumulated between 13 May and 21 June...

1st day Israel 15 May 1948 postmarked CHICAGO surface mailed cover to HAIFA, franked 5c & tied by machine cancel - but as the US Post Office suspended surface mail to Palestine on 27 March, its transmission stopped & tied by postal suspension marking Kibble Type-IV in violet; machine backstamped 17 May return....

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...