Postmarks & Postal Markings of Haifa

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...

Unusual postmark error on airmail to Chile: 36(!) Oct 1950 postmark-dated airmail cover sent from HAIFA (return addressed MATZUVA via Nahariya post - possibly couriered) to SANTIAGO Chile, franked 150pr at the FA-2a postage period rate using mix of 30pr & 40pr 1950 1st Airmails (Ba #33/34) + 2x 10pr & pair 30pr 1949 2nd Coinage (Ba #23/25) stamps, tied by 4x strikes of the erroniously Latin-dated ...

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...

Reintroduced Mandate postmarks from 2 cities: 1 JY 1948 HAIFA TELEGRAPHS single-circle date-stamp (GD-79 - 11 months after their last known date of use) tied to trilingual Mandate telegram form PT 6A & tied by 4 JY 48 JERUSALEM receipt using single-circle date-stamp; the JERUSALEM cancel believed used at Rehavia in early State period until receipt of Israeli trilingual devices - on telegrams until...

Postmark double-error: inverted date-slug on 6-07-1948 dated strike of NATHANYA postmark on postcard to HAIFA; the Hebrew and English dates don't match: if the Hebrew date is correct the English date should have been 26 July - but the "2" is missing on an otherwise clear strike....

Rare "1590" year date error on 27 April 1950 date slug of HAIFA head post office postmark trying 15pr franking on domestic cover on imprinted business postal stationary of the Technion's electrical testing lab sent to the Institute of Standards in TEL AVIV; machine backstamped same day transit arrival; opened gently at back. Superb strike of this error postmark. This cataloguer has observed this d...

Israeli illustrated slogan cancellations: lot of 9x covers with various illustrated slogan cancellations, all different, circa. 1949-1951...

1963 incoming French postage due mail: 19 SEPT 1963 postmarked air mail cover sent from PARIS to HAIFA & short paid at 0.75Fr; the French post office subsequently manuscript marked the cover for postage dues totalling twice the deficiency and wrote this as 43 gold centimes; as per the circular numbered cachet on the front the cover passed the French censor. In Israel the gold centimes dues was con...

1963 incoming French taxed mail: 15 Oct. 1963 airmail cover from FRANCE (Isere region) to HAIFA underfranked at 0.50Fr and taxed 0.49L in Israel, paid 18-10-63 using tabbed corner 0.50L 1961 Zodiac Ba215 frank tied by red Haifa-38 postmark; backstamped 17-10-63 by local machine slogan cancellation; cut open at left, vertical fold; very fine....