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Postal History Handbook

This is our work tool for researching stamps and postal history. It's a work in progress continually being updated, containing chronologically arranged information on rates, routes, postal procedures, events and more. In time it will include guides and appendicies on various specialized subjects of Israeli/Holy Land philately. Click here for the searchable pdf version, version 003.

About Us

JerusalemStamps is a professional online mail-order philately dealership run by the Jerusalem-based philatelist Alex Ben-Arieh, with almost 40 years experience.

We offer stamps, postal history, philately and paraphilately for sale: our focus is on all historical periods of Israel - from Ottoman Turkish Palestine, the foreign Holyland post offices and Eretz Israel Jewish settlements & colonies, to the Palestine Mandate and Yishuv, the 1948 Israeli interim period & War of Independence, independent Israel, the Arab community and the Palestinian Authority; countries of the Levant, Near East and Egypt; Judaic & Zionist philately (including the JNF, Jewish communities of the Diaspora and Zionist organizations), ephemera and memorabilia; and world-wide war times, from the American Civil war and the World Wars, the Holocaust & Jewish Ghettos, 'terror mail', 'postkrieg' and suspended service mail, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and contemporary wars; special mail services in times of emergency and siege.

We specialize in all aspects of philately, with careful attention to historical context balanced by exactitude in measuring the relevant classic philatelic elements: postal history rates, routes, special franking, surface & air mail, censored mail, military & civilian mail, taxed mail and postage dues, postmarks and postal markings, special and unique postal services, channels, links and postal handling - and more; in the areas of stamps - mint & used postage stamps, semi-postals, revenue & fiscal stamps, cinderellas and labels; tabs, settings, printings, perforations, paper types, colors, essais, errors and more.

Established and run by an American-born and educated dealer, JerusalemStamps operates according to the high standards of honesty, integrity, expertise and service that customers expect from American businesses; we are your American stamp dealer in Israel.

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