Special Characteristics Philately - significant cachets & postal markings

Outbound mail: 18 OCT 1899 commercial cover from SAFED (with sender's cachet - 'Elias Klinger Saffed') to music business in WILDSTEIN Bohemia, Austra (on that business's stationary), franked 40 Para (on back) using pair 20 Para (Ba120) per 2nd UPU period 1Pia rate for mail abroad tied by rare blue Safed postmark Ba 780b / Steich-PM4; backstamped 5-11-1899 unclear arrival/transit postmark....

German Post Office & colonies in Holyland: 3-12-1910 "Aus Sarona bei Jaffa (Deutsche Post)" violet cacheted (Ba412/FPOP 248) 1908 series German Levant prepaid postal stationary wrapper (Ba431) from JAFFA to (unclear) Germany franked at printed matter rate using pre-printed 10c on 5Pf frank and stamped "Imprime" on front, tied by full strike of Ba401/FPOP 221 postmark; very fine, scarce combination...

German Post Office in the Holyland: 31-8-1912 unsevered complete reply postcard on German Levant prepaid postal stationary (Ba 404) with pencil written German message on back, from JAFFA via German PO JERUSALEM to LEEHEIM Germany, with preprinted 10pf Germania frank overprinted French 10 Centimes & tied by full strike of German PO local postmark + full strike of rare AUS JAFFA boxed handstamp in v...

1936-39 Arab Revolt mail: 30 NO 1936 airmail cover on Lincolnshire Regiment stationary ex FPO 22 (13th Infantry Brigade, TULKAREM) to OLD WOKING (UK), franked 3d per period air mail rate to UK using 6x ½d Edward VIII definitive franks & tied by 6x strikes of FPO 22 postmark (number unclear here but confirmed by unit assignment & another related cover). The regiment was assigned to "special se...

Mandate Jerusalem Postmarks: 16 JU 1920 registered cover from JERUSALEM to PARIS, franked 2Pia at period rate (1pia overseas letter + 1 pia registered fee) using vertical pair Ba10 tied by rare OETA EEF JERUSALEM RGD single-circle date-stamp (Sach-A13, rated F out of J) on front & back; backstamped 18 JU 20 PORT SAID transit; opened at top & resealed, frayed edges all around. Of note: the civil ad...

1948-49 War Arab POW mail: 27 SEP 1948 cover from HEBRON with typewritten English & Arabic handwritten address to Arab prisoner of war at "Camp No. 1" (noted as 791 Camp by one of the transmitting authorities), franked 10m per period domestic letter rate using Egyptian Palestine overprinted single & tied by strike of the rare local postmark: although on the West Bank, Hebron was under Egyptian con...

1948-49 War Arab POW mail: [7 DEC 1948] stampless cover from TULKAREM to "Central Detention Camp | Prisoner no. 3381 | El-sayed Mohamed Saeed Dood El-Samra | By International Red Cross | Ramallah", originally franked (Jordanian stamp) & tied by reintroduced Mandate double-ring postmark, now removed & most of postmark not visible (manuscript date written top front, presumably dispatch); front-stam...

1948 PEDI first flight mail: May 21 1948 postmarked air mail cover on Agudat Israel airmail stationary, from NEW YORK to American Consul General in HAIFA ("Palestine"), franked 50c per period double-rate postage & tied by single strike of PEDI Type II cancel + serial number 745 & "First Flight" handstamp on front; this 1st flight arrived in Haifa on 2 June where CSA Czech Airlines circular cachet ...

1948 JERUSALEM Interim overseas mail: 29 JUNE 1948 airmail commercial cover (return addressed "Palestine") to SAN DIEGO, franked 65 mils per FA-1 postage period rate to US using 3x 20m + 1x 5m Doar Ivri stamps tied by 2x strikes of transition period provisional "Egg" postmark of the Head Post Office - this rare on overseas mail; opened gently at back, tear to flap & cover's top left corner missing...

Last Day slogan cancellations: 6-02-1949 commercial cover on Holland Bank stationary from HAIFA to Anglo Palestine Bank in JERUSALEM, franked 15pr per period letter rate using Ba #4 Doar Ivri single, tied by the Cyprus Interees illustrated slogan cachet (Nacht #4) on its last day of use; slit open on top and right....

Second Boer War (1899-1902) mail: 13 DEC 1900 stampless plain envelope endorsed "No Stamps Available / from Prisoner of War" in PORT ELIZABETH to addressee in HUMANSDORP in "CC" (Cape Colony), opened and sealed by censor using horizontal black on pink V. Arms R. /Opened Under Martial Law label - tied by local postmark on back; backstamped DE 15 1900 arrival. Slit open at bottom, with 2 filing hole...

British WWI military mail in Egypt: 16 AP 1918 stampless OAS YMCA stationary (FB-YMC35) cover from BAPO Z (ALEXANDRIA) to JERUSALEM tied by scarce Proud-D7 skeleton postmark; passed local & Palestine censors (FB-PCC2/2); opened at top....

British WWI military mail in Egypt: 21 AU 1921 OHMS cover from BASE APO Z (ALEXANDRIA) to swimming club ALEXANDRIA, franked 5m per letter rate & tied by full strike scarce skeleton single circle postmark Proud-D7; backstamped same day arrival using local civilian post office postmark. Slit open at top, very fine....

WWII/Holocaust era camps > Gleiwitz: 14 DEC 1939 stampless photo picture postcard of Wilhelmstrasse with family correspondence in German from husband to wife, from GLEIWITZ Germany to VIENNA ("Ostmark" - the Nazi-era name for Austria, from 1938-1942), tied by violet circular handstamp of the Gleiwitz concentration camp + carmine boxed cachet of the camp censor & illustrated machine slogan cancel (...

WWII/Holocaust era camps > Branowitz/Vranovice: 17-7(?)-1944 registered cover from BRANOWITZ KL (concentration camp) to PRAGUE, franked 4.20k using Bohemia-Moravia stamps & tied by Branowitz-Vranovice bilingual postmark + camp censor cachet & Registry label; backstamped next day arrival; slit open at top. Rare registered postal service from an obscure camp about which almost nothing is documented....

WWII/Holocaust era camps > Reckman-Strobitz: 26-12-1944 postal card with numbered Christmas-period correspondence (#65 on reverse) dated from 23 Dec., in Polish, from woman in KRAKAU (Krakow) to a male at ARBEITS LAGER R. [Richard] RECKMAN (labor camp) in STROBITZ Germany, franked 12pf using a Generalgouvernement stamp & tied by local machine cancel + the labor camp's carmine censor handstamp. Ver...