16) Early Foreign Postal Links

1948 early postal links / service (not) suspended mail: "First Day airmail to Israel" return paid post card (RPPC) from CHICAGO Palestine Postal History Society to postmaster PETACH TIKVA, pre-printed with 3c franking + additional 22c franking for overseas airmail, postmarked "Chicago-Airmail" 29 JUN 1948 (1st day of US-Israel mail) & erroniously stamped "Return to Mailing Office | Service Suspend...

1948 War of Independence couriered mail + early/1st day Tel Aviv Airport mail: 25 Aug 1948 postmarked air mail cover on Italian airmail postal stationary sent from TEL AVIV (return addressed GIVAT BRENNER) to MILAN, franked 25 mils per FA-1 period postage rate to Italy & tied by single strike of local post office; machine backstamped 1 Sept. TORINO (Turin) transit-arrival; opened gently at bac...

Early Israel Czech CSA incoming airmail - printed matter: 18 May 1948 postmarked printed matter air mail cover on imprinted Jewish Agency postal stationary, sent from PRAGUE Czechoslovakia to TEL AVIV "Israel" (manuscript), tied by TISKOPIS (Printed Matter) endorsement handstamp and franked 4.50 Koruna, tied by 3x strikes of the local postmark; mailed unsealed per printed matter regulations and no...

1st outbound Israeli sea mail + 1st sea mail to USA: 23 May 1948 postmarked surface mailed cover, sent from KIRYAT MOTZKIN (return addressed KIRYAT BIALIK) to NEW YORK, franked 20m per SU-1 period postage rate & tied by reintroduced Mandate local postmark - this rare on overseas mail; opened gently at back.Important postal history: sea mail to the United States was suspended on 25 March 1948 and r...

Official 1st Israeli outbound sea mail + stamp error: 27 MAY 1948 postmarked cover from NETANYA to (West) BERLIN, franked 20m per the SU-1 postage period surface rate using 5m & 15m Doar Ivri stamps, where the 15m frank's vertical perforations are inset, indicating this was originally a double-perforated stamp detached along the duplicate perforation; tied by a reintroduced Mandate NATHANYA cancel...

Doar Ivri 10x11 perforated tabbed 20m stamp on late fee paid KLM 1st day airmail: Monday 14 June 1948 postmarked air mail cover sent from TEL AVIV to company in AMSTERDAM, initially franked 28 mils - likely an erronious calculation by the sender of 25m for the 35m base letter rate to the Netherlands (in this period the postage rate to some European countries like Italy and Britain was 25m) + 3m fo...

1948 early Israel 'emergency' mail by sea - SS Kedma: couriered cover sent from abroad and addressed to person in TEL AVIV "Palestine", carried on board the Israeli ship SS Kedmah & tied by the ship's circular bilingual English/Hebrew handstamp "TSS KEDMAH | Kedem Palestine Line Ltd"; upon arrival in Israel franked with a 10 mils Doar Ivri stamp (for domestic letter postage) & posted at HAIFA (hea...

Early Israeli airmail to USA: 16 June 1948 postmarked registered commercial airmail cover from TEL AVIV to hair business ELIZABETH New Jersey, franked 80 mils per FA-1 postage period rate (65m airmail to US + 15m registered fee) using 50m + 2x 15m & tied by 2 strikes of the Head Post Office postmark on front + 1x on back (flap sealed with 20m frank tab); here mailed 7 days after Israel's comme...

1948 Besieged Jerusalem convoy mail - First Flight airmail abroad: undated air mail cover on imprinted personal postal stationary, return addressed Haredi neighborhood of BATEI UNGARIN & addressed to company in HOOGEZAND Netherlands; franked 40m per period air mail rate to Europe using vertical pair of Mandate 20m pictorial stamps. The cover was properly prepared for international mail (using UPU ...

Reintroduced Mandate postmark on early 1948 Israeli mail abroad: 21 June 1948 postmarked airmail stationary commercial cover sent from RAMAT GAN to BUDAPEST franked 40 mils at period airmail rate to Hungary using a 20m Doar Ivri stamp pair & tied by reintroduced Mandate Ramat Gan postmark Dorf-4; backstamped 26 June 1948 transit-arrival and 28 June delivery. Probably transported by Czechoslovak Ai...

Early Polish air links: 23 JUNE 1948 registered air mail cover from WARSAW to TEL AVIV "Palestine", franked 105zl & tied by 4 strikes of the WARSAW-10 postmark; backstamped 1-07-1948 TEL AVIV 3 arrival. Airmail service from Poland was suspended around 25-27 April, and resumed around 9-11 June with the first mail from Israel to Poland being carried by Air France on the 11th. Here incoming mail on o...

Early US-Israel airmail: 2 JUL 1948 airmail cover from New York to "Haaretz" newspaper TEL AVIV "Palestine" (replaced by "Israel" in manuscript), meter-franked 25c per period airmail letter rate (service for commercial papers, printed-matter & samples only available from 16 Aug.): commencement of US-Israel airmail began 26 June (officially announced on the 29th), so this early airmail. Slit open a...