Locales in Holyland/Israel: + Taxed Mail and related

Overweight but unsanctioned Mandate air mail: 27 July 1936 postmarked cover from TEL AVIV to Cathrinebjerg manor at VARMARK in Denmark, franked 15 mils per period letter rate on Imperial Airlines, using 13m & 2m singles & tied by local machine cancel; the cover was found to be overweight and underfranked for this & marked by boxed bilingual instructional marking on front (Sacher #L74) - neverthele...

Overweight but untaxed Mandate air mail: 20 Aug 1936 postmarked cover from TEL AVIV to Cathrinebjerg manor at VARMARK in Denmark, franked 15 mils per period letter rate on Imperial Airlines, using 15m single & tied by very rare TEL AVIV double circle date cancel with 3-letter month in date-stamp (Groten #C12, rated E / Sach #B44; with index letter "C" - undocumented) - however the cover was found ...

Taxed eastbound mail: c. JULY 1945 commercial cover (from HAIFA?) to TEHRAN, sent via overland service via Baghdad but underfranked at 10m (15m was period rate), tied by machine cancel; backstamped 29 JLY 1945 BAGHDAD transit, where cover censored (front); probably at this stage of transmission, cover damaged: backstamped 15 IX 45 TEHERAN arrival (6 week transit), marked for tax on front (uncollec...

Wartime outbound civilian mail: 23 NO 1942 registered life insurance document with Avis Receipt service (manuscript) from Levantine branch of 'La Nationale' French insurance business TEL AVIV to deputy chief of military infirmary section BEIRUT franked 30m (15m registration fee + 15m AR - but lacking at least 3m for printed matter; not taxed) using pair Ba108 tied by REG TEL AVIV postmark & strike...

TRANSMITTED & RETURNED wartime civilian mail to Third Reich: Sept-Oct 1939 period commercial cover on Etz Hayim Yeshiva stationary (marked "return postage guaranteed") from JERUSALEM to SILUTE "Lithuania", likely franked 15m (Ba #108) now missing, for overseas surface mail & tied by strike of single-circle canceller of the sorting office (i.e. the cover was deposted un-postmarked into a pi...

Untaxed mail Jewish Brigade soldier: 12 JUNE 1946 family correspondence cover from TEL AVIV (return addressed GIVATAYIM) to relative in Jewish Brigade (assigned to British Army on the Rhine), franked 10m per inland letter rate (should have been 20m for non-UK surface mail - but not taxed, probably because to a soldier), tied by strike of local postmark; backstamped 22 JU 46 FPO 690 (ANTWERP) arriv...

Mandate 1st postage dues on incoming mail: 14 SEPT 1923 surface mailed picture-postcard of Constantinople in Hebrew spelled Yiddish from PIREUS(?) to TEL AVIV mailed unfranked and tied by local machine cancel on front, taxed 8m (double deficiency) in Palestine and marked by metal boxed cachet, paid using 8m 1st Mandate postage dues Ba #D4 frank tied by 30 Sept 23 TEL AVIV JAFFA branch office postm...

Postage dues for unpaid extra weight: 17 Jan 1939 postmarked cover from JERUSALEM (return address on front) to the "Ha'avara" initiative in TEL AVIV, franked 6m for the period 5m domestic letter rate, using stamp booklet vertical pair of 3m - but underfranked as the cover weighed 33g (per manuscript) and required an additional 3m for the excess 13g above the base weight of 20g. As the postage paid...

Early Mandate Postal Fine: 10x strikes of 11 DEC 1920 rare right-set single-circle "TELEGR PHS HAIFA" skeleton postmark GD-78/Sach-H9 tied to 7-12-1920 postal employee fine of 1 Piastre (for errors in transmitting telegram) signed by postmaster and franked by 20x 5m Jerusalem I setting II Ba29 (perforation 14), with various overprint varieties. Unusual (ref: HLPH journal #5 p.219)....

TIBERIAS 1948 interim cancel in black on commercial cover from business to addressee in small locale of YAVNEEL, underfranked at 5m using Mandate pictorial single instead of 10m for the period letter rate, but not taxed; slit open at bottom, vertical fold....

Stampless couriered cover from HAIFA to JERUSALEM where entered into the civilian postal system & unusually not taxed (or even marked as being unfranked); tied by near full strike of JERUSALEM 4 Main Post Office postmark (Nacht-289/5) with large datelines, dated 6 JULY 1948 (3rd day of use), unusually with Latin date over the Hebrew; torn open at left & vertically folded as typical of period couri...

1948 Polish "service suspended" mail to Palestine: 8 APR 1948 uprated airmail postal stationary (VI-1937 edition) from WARSAW to TEL AVIV, franked 25Zl in place of obliterated pre-war pre-printed frank & tied by local machine cancel; as under-franked for airmail, marked by bilingual Polish/French "Insufficient fee for air transport" & sent by surface mail, here via UK: but as of 7 APR, UK suspende...

1948 early postal links / taxed incoming couriered airmail: unfranked airmail stationary cover from PARIS to TEL AVIV, couriered from abroad by air and posted locally unfranked, where marked for tax with Mandate scarce metal boxed cachet "To pay 10 mils" and charged concessionary tax (half the usual postage dues) as addressed to private individual, and paid using 10m 1st Postage Dues Ba #PD3 frank...

Interim franks as postage dues: interim period cover from GIVATAYIM to TEL AVIV, franked 10m per period inland letter rate but using 2x invalid JNF 5m Map labels (not overprinted with 'DOAR') - here cancelled (twice) against regulations by the local post office, but cover marked by boxed cachet for full 20m tax (double the deficiency); tax was paid on arrival using vertical pair of Diaspora series...

Interim franks as postage due on a postcard: 11 MAY 1948 manuscript dated postal card from HERZLIYA-TEL AVIV to TEL AVIV franked 10m for period 7m postcard rate using invalid JNF Zionist Congress Jubilee label (not overprinted with 'DOAR'), so not cancelled & postcard marked by tax boxed cachet - erroniously charged for twice the deficiency per letter rate (20m - almost 3x the postcard rate), ...

1948 underpaid overweight mail taxed instead for invalid franks: 21 MAY 1948 business stationary commercial cover from PARDESS HANNA to TEL AVIV franked 10m using Minhelet Ha'am 'Diaspora-2' stamp (Ba #56) - the last day these were valid for use, tied by single full strike of reintroduced Mandatory local postmark (D2/Dorf-2), then struck again in field with manuscript notation alongside for 12m ta...

1948 waived taxed late interim mail / small locales: 23 MAY 1948 commercial cover from KARKUR (return addressed "TEL SHALOM, Karkur post") to a business in HAIFA, franked 10m using now demonetized and invalid interim frank (Herzl Ba7) as of 23 May; this not initially accepted by the postal clerk who circled the frank and stamped the cover with reintroduced Mandate postmark (D3/Dorf-4) on blank fie...

1948 small locale Ramot HaShavim couriered & taxed cover: MAY-JUNE 1948 period cover from sender care of resident in RAMOT HASHAVIM to HAIFA, franked 10m per period domestic letter rate using interim frank (with Tel Aviv overprint); the cover is not postmarked and has a vertical fold normally observed on couriered mail (Ramot HaShavim had no post office until October 1949, which may also explain t...

1st Postage Dues on 3 postal-period cover: 30 MAY 1948 cover from NETANYA to HAIFA, franked 10m per period inland letter rate but using now-invalid (as of 22 May) Minhelet Haam frank (faint 'DOAR' overprint visible at top left), and not cancelled per regulation; rather, reintroduced Mandate cancel applied, correctly to field of the cover and it was then marked in Hebrew manuscript at top for 20m t...

1950 1st airmail unusual franking: 20 NOV 1952 Israeli air mail postal stationary printed matter cover from TEL AVIV to LONDON, franked 80pr at the FA-3a period 90pr printed matter rate - here, 10pr short-paid & franked using full-tabbed 50pr and vertically bisected 30pr stamp, tied by single strike of TEL AVIV-18 postmark; the cover was not taxed & the bisected stamp was not rejected; unsealed as...

1966 DO-12 postage rate period domestic taxed mail + postmark errors: 29-5-1966 commercial cover from ASHQELON (return addressed Kibbutz Gat) to TEL AVIV franked at the old DO-11 letter rate of 12 Ag (invalid as of 14 Jan 1966) using 1961 Zodiac Ba210 & tied by strike of local machine cancel (whose Hebrew year is misspelled Tav-Shin-Vav-Vav-Kaf); taxed twice the deficiency (6 Ag), marked by scarce...

Early postage dues + double perforations: 30 May 1948 local HAIFA commercial cover franked 6m with 2x rouletted 3m Doar Ivri stamps (Ba #1c) with left gutter tied by full strike of Haifa Head Post Office postmark, possibly intending to pay for printed matter + additional 50g, as the cover unsealed (per printed-matter regulations), but this unaccepted perhaps because cover not marked "printed matte...

Late paid taxed mail: 4 June 1948 cover from HAIFA to TEL AVIV, mailed unfranked & tied by Haifa Head Post Office postmark + stamped on front by Haifa "T" tax cachet; the cover was initially undeliverable and held at the post office for pick-up; the addressee collected the mail about 3 weeks later and was then charged twice the deficiency of the postage, 20m, paid using a single postage dues frank...

Early postage dues on demonetized mail: 7 June 1948 local HAIFA/BAT GALIM commercial cover on business stationary, franked with Mandate 10m Ba #97 stamp per domestic letter rate, but demonetized as of 16 May and now unaccepted, so not cancelled (correctly, per regulations) & cover postmarked in field by the dispatching Haifa Head Post Office postmark, and taxed twice the 10m letter rate (manuscrip...