8) Besieged locales: Nahariya

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...

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...

"Besieged" Nahariya discovery piece / 'Maryline' mail: 27 April 1948 HAIFA postmarked cover return-addressed to NAHARIYA and addressed to NETANYA, franked 10 mils for the domestic letter rate using Mandate stamps & tied by the head post office postmark; opened roughly at back & repaired, slit open at left.Important postal history: the specialist philatelic literature (eg. "Emergency, Local & Priva...

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...

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...