8) Besieged locales: Nahariya

1948 interim mail/Nahariya 2ND SLOGAN 1st Day of use: 2x superb full strikes dated 23 MAR 1948 tied to front & back of cover to Rina Shine HAIFA (from "Shitz" in Nahariya), franked 10m using Mandate pictoral (Ba 97) & cancelled 26 MAR 48 by Haifa machine cancel; vertical fold at center, slit open at top. The slogan was applied to mail carried by the emergency sea-route established while Nahariya w...

Nahariya emergency mail Discovery: pre-cancelled & undated strike of 5th slogan postmark tied to cover, serving as a prepared "prepaid envelope" here used on 22 April 1948 - 2 days after the last known date of use of the 5th Slogan - and addressed to HAIFA, where franked at the head post office using Mandate 2m + 8m pictorial stamps & arrival-cancelled 26 April, as documented for other Nahariya ma...

Nahariya 1st day/last day interim mail Discovery - 7th slogan + Haifa postmark: 7 May 1948 postmarked commercial cover addressed to bank in HAIFA & franked 20m using a 1st issue red local Emergency Post stamp as the fee for submitting a letter through the emergency service via sea; tied by the 7th slogan postmark here serving as a cancellation device.According to the specialist literature (Shimony...

Nahariya emergency mail service - incoming mail 10m yellow service fee label tied to 7 May 1948 postmarked window cover sent from the HAIFA head post office & franked 10m per the base domestic letter rate using 2m + 8m Mandate pictorial stamps, tied by a single strike of the double ring HPO postmark; upon arrival by sea at Nahariya using the local emergency mail service the 10m delivery fee was ch...

Nahariya emergency post 11m red delivery label on undated 1948 era cover from HAIFA, franked 10m per period letter rate & tied by 2x strikes of Haifa interim postmark + light strike of Nahariya interim postmark; cut open at left. The interim Nahariya canceller and stamps arrived in the city on 6 May; the use of the red delivery label began towards the end of the interim period and is scarce on cov...

1948 interim mail/Nahariya 7th slogan: 13 May 1948 postmarked commercial cover (return addressed Oppenheimer at the 'Penguin' restaurant - the city's oldest restaurant founded by that family) from besieged NAHARIYA to HAIFA, franked 10m per period letter rate using Mandate pictoral stamp tied by black local Minhelet Ha'am post office postmark (opened locally since 6 May; prior to that cancelled by...

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...

1948 besieged Nahariya 1st Day & Last Day incoming mail: undated cover from TEL AVIV to NAHARIYA ("near Haifa") franked 10 mils using an invalid 10m denominated JNF label (not overprinted 'Doar', as a proper interim frank) + a 10m Kofer HaYishuv stamp - the latter either to compensate for the invalid label or for patriotic purposes; both tied (against regulations for the former) by full strike...