1948 ISRAEL EARLY POSTAL LINKS - Stamp Auctions

Lot 166 - 1948 ISRAEL EARLY POSTAL LINKS  -  Tel Aviv Stamps Ltd. Auction #52

Lot 166 - 1948 ISRAEL EARLY POSTAL LINKS - Tel Aviv Stamps Ltd. Auction #52

1.6.1948 Registered airmail cv Haifa to Olomouc - Czech. frank 215m D. Ivri stps = 15 + bl of 4x50m: 40 basic + 15 regist. + 4x40 for 4x addit weight (for each 10gr) arrival pmk 6.VI.48 on face, Czech censor strip at left; vf, a very early outgoing Quintuple rate cv

Tel Aviv Stamps Ltd. Auction #52

1948 ISRAEL EARLY POSTAL LINKS
Lot 167 - 1948 ISRAEL EARLY POSTAL LINKS  -  Tel Aviv Stamps Ltd. Auction #52

Lot 167 - 1948 ISRAEL EARLY POSTAL LINKS - Tel Aviv Stamps Ltd. Auction #52

Courier from Rome - ppc to Givatayim - Eretz, family corresp. message in Hebrew on 8.6.48, frank by the Courier 8m (3+5m) D. Ivri stps upon arrival & posted by him in Haifa 15.6.1948; vf & scarce, signed Tsachor

Tel Aviv Stamps Ltd. Auction #52

1948 ISRAEL EARLY POSTAL LINKS
Lot 168 - 1948 ISRAEL EARLY POSTAL LINKS  -  Tel Aviv Stamps Ltd. Auction #52

Lot 168 - 1948 ISRAEL EARLY POSTAL LINKS - Tel Aviv Stamps Ltd. Auction #52

South African Zionist Fed. - the first 2 shipments - 2 cvs each w/the Zion. Fed.'s 2 lines cachet, Peltours oval cachet & frank 10m D. Ivri stp by Peltours - all on face: a) Stp tied by pmk TEL-AVIV 11.6.1948, return address "SP. Camp Gilgil KENYA", cv straightened at left; b) Pmk 17.6.1948 cv ex Cape Town; f - vf (x2), scarce

Tel Aviv Stamps Ltd. Auction #52

1948 ISRAEL EARLY POSTAL LINKS
Lot 169 - 1948 ISRAEL EARLY POSTAL LINKS  -  Tel Aviv Stamps Ltd. Auction #52

Lot 169 - 1948 ISRAEL EARLY POSTAL LINKS - Tel Aviv Stamps Ltd. Auction #52

SURFACE MAIL: 27.3.1948 surface rate Regist cv from German Russian Occup. zone to Tel Aviv, total franking 1.10DM stps, tied by pmks GRODITZ / RIESA, arrival pmk TLV 30.5.1948! cv carried by by the S/S Kedmah  that left Genova 23 MAY & arrived in Haifa 27 MAY; roughly opened at left & 1 stp w/corner tear, fine Rare example of very early incoming surface mail accepted after the 25 March which was UPU's last day for this type of mail to Palestine

Tel Aviv Stamps Ltd. Auction #52

1948 ISRAEL EARLY POSTAL LINKS
Lot 164 - 1948 ISRAEL EARLY POSTAL LINKS  -  Tel Aviv Stamps Ltd. Auction #52

Lot 164 - 1948 ISRAEL EARLY POSTAL LINKS - Tel Aviv Stamps Ltd. Auction #52

Unusual: Airmail commerc cv Haifa to Wien correct 40m rate Palestine stps (SG 94+106+2x107) all tied by d.c. pmks HAIFA 27 AP 48, Haifa was liberated on 22 AP and the central P. O. reopened. As Lydda airpost closed on 25 AP 48, cv was carried with 1 of the 1st Czech flights (CSA) that used Haifa airport during May 1948. Austrian censor tape & cachet - used in mid 1948; f - vf Rarity, certif Tsachor

Tel Aviv Stamps Ltd. Auction #52

1948 ISRAEL EARLY POSTAL LINKS
Lot 170 - 1948 ISRAEL EARLY POSTAL LINKS  -  Tel Aviv Stamps Ltd. Auction #52

Lot 170 - 1948 ISRAEL EARLY POSTAL LINKS - Tel Aviv Stamps Ltd. Auction #52

12 July 1948 cv from England to the under cover address of Pierre Roger in Marseiile to be directed in Israel, postal service from England resumed only on 22 July 1948, delivered by the s/s PAN-YORK 6 OCT 1948 (cachet), censored; f - vf & seldom offered, see "Foreign Postal Links" fig. 6 - 18 & 20

Tel Aviv Stamps Ltd. Auction #52

1948 ISRAEL EARLY POSTAL LINKS
Lot 165 - 1948 ISRAEL EARLY POSTAL LINKS  -  Tel Aviv Stamps Ltd. Auction #52

Lot 165 - 1948 ISRAEL EARLY POSTAL LINKS - Tel Aviv Stamps Ltd. Auction #52

Peltours Service courier via Cyprus - airmail cv originated in Tel Aviv addressed to Johannesburg, carried to Cyprus where frank 11pi Cyprus KGVI stps for airmail rate, cancelled NICOSIA / CYPRUS 8 MY 48 (very early date), endorsed by the recipient: "Postal services from Palestine stopped by mandatory, letters sent via Cyprus"; vf & scarce

Tel Aviv Stamps Ltd. Auction #52

1948 ISRAEL EARLY POSTAL LINKS
Lot 156 - 1948 ISRAEL EARLY POSTAL LINKS  -  Tel Aviv Stamps Ltd. Auction #51

Lot 156 - 1948 ISRAEL EARLY POSTAL LINKS - Tel Aviv Stamps Ltd. Auction #51

Rarity: Airmail double addressed courier cv from Jerusalem franked 25m 1st local issue stp (Ba 103c imperf at bottom) to Livorno Italy (correct rate to Italy), couriered to Tel Aviv where the courier realized that there is no air mail service to Italy (resumed 13.7.48), the address in Italy was put in brackets and an additional address of the Jewish Agency Office at Av. de Wagram Paris was added, 35m Doar Ivri stps affixed (correct rate to France) all stps including Jerusalem local, cancelled in Tel Aviv 22.6.1948 Israeli trilingual pmks; horiz. fold not affecting, vf & Extremely Rare 2 diff. rates to Europe, certif. Tsachor-Aloni

Tel Aviv Stamps Ltd. Auction #51

1948 ISRAEL EARLY POSTAL LINKS
Lot 157 - 1948 ISRAEL EARLY POSTAL LINKS  -  Tel Aviv Stamps Ltd. Auction #51

Lot 157 - 1948 ISRAEL EARLY POSTAL LINKS - Tel Aviv Stamps Ltd. Auction #51

25.7.1948 Air Letter Tel Aviv to Bridgeport Conn. USA 65m Rare Mixed Franking of 10m Jerusalem 2nd local issue + 55m Doar Ivri stps (5 + 50m) correct air mail rate to the USA (no Air Letter service to USA at that date), all tied by TEL AVIV 25.7.1948  Israeli trilingual pmks message in English; vertical center fold not affecting, vf & a Rare Franking          

Tel Aviv Stamps Ltd. Auction #51

1948 ISRAEL EARLY POSTAL LINKS
Lot 158 - 1948 ISRAEL EARLY POSTAL LINKS  -  Tel Aviv Stamps Ltd. Auction #51

Lot 158 - 1948 ISRAEL EARLY POSTAL LINKS - Tel Aviv Stamps Ltd. Auction #51

COURIER cv Paris to Tel Aviv mailed in Tel Aviv Unfranked taxed concessionary courier mail 10mrate & not 20m = x2 the deficiency, 1st P. Due 10m (#J3) tied by pmk Tel Aviv 21.6.1948; f-vf

Tel Aviv Stamps Ltd. Auction #51

1948 ISRAEL EARLY POSTAL LINKS