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MILITARY MAIL POSTAL HISTORY, POSTAGE RATES and EPHEMERA:
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British military (EEF) mail 54th East Anglian Div, 1918: ex Egyptian Expeditionary Force 163rd brigade (54th East Anglian Division) censored OAS ("On Active Service") cover (FPO 163 cachet) sent 7 DE 18, from Helmieh to Somerset. Small tear at back F-VF.
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Item Code: 0080003 Price: $25
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British military (EEF) mail in Palestine SZ14, 1917: OAS cover ex Egyptian Expeditionary Force APO SZ14 sent 4 OC 17 from Deir el Balakh, Palestine, to West Bromwich (received 23 Oct.), with censor cachet. EF.
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Item Code: 0080004 Price: $30
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British military (EEF) mail in Jerusalem, SZ32, 1918: OAS postcard of Mount Zion, Jerusalem ex APO SZ32 sent 23 JY 18 from Bir Salem (just south of Rishon LeZion) to Ealing, with censor cachet.
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Item Code: 0080005 Price: $30
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British military (EEF) mail in Sarona, SZ47, 1919: OAS postcard of Jaffa Port, ex APO SZ47 sent 21 JA 19 from Sarona (where today's IDF general command is located - "HaKirya") to London.
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Item Code: 0080006 Price: $25
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British Army Post Office mail mail: postcard of Cairo ex APO SZ10, 1918 (the "0" has shifted up) sent 12 DE 18 from Cairo to Cheshire, with censor cachet. Not marked as "on active service" - unusual!
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Item Code: 0080007 Price: $40
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British OHMS registered cover ex APO H21 (XXI Corps) in Palestine 1917: with blue crayon, sent 4 SP 17 from Deir el Balakh, Palestine, to London, with censor cachet. Some tears at top; F-VF
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Item Code: 0080009 Price: $40
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British military OHMS ("On His Majesty's Service") cover ex Iraq FPO 171 dated 16 Sept 45, with "Iraq Command" and "certified official" cachets to Tel Aviv, but postmarked 17 Oct 45(!)
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Item Code: 0080013 Price: $20
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Jewish POW in Italian camp to Neve Chaim in Palestine, 9/1942 letter in German on Italian camp postal stationary, delivered by International Red Cross; with Italian and British censor and IRC cachets; signed "Shalom Uv'racha".
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Item Code: 0080721 Price: $60
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Israeli military mail: Haganah registered cover sent 20 May 1948 from Negev headquarters to Tel Aviv HQ ("Red House"); arrived Tel Aviv 21 May 1948; with 3 Negev, 1 TA, register, "by air" and "secret" cachets. VF.
The "Red House" is famous in Israeli political and military history: built between 1923-26 in the 'Ecclectic' style, painted in a reddish color and located along the water front in Tel Aviv, it originally served as the city's [Zionist-socialist] workers council building as a service and social activity locale. In the 1930's it secretly housed the Haganah's illegal immigration activities: newly arrived immigrants would be mixed in with workers and laborers socializing and dancing in the evening hours.
During the Second World War the building housed the British Army's command staff and even a prison of the Palestine Police. After the war the building resumed concealing immigration activities; the Palmach general staff also moved into the building, and in 1947 the Haganah command moved in too, and at the end of the year, the entire Jewish defense high command moved in as well. In 1948 a Haganah recruitment office opened in the building as well. For a brief period after the War and the foundation of the State, the Foreign Ministry operated out of the building. From the 1950's to the 1970's the building housed the kibbutz movement's activities, until it was demolished and the Sheraton hotel built in its place.
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Item Code: 0080001 Price: $75
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Israel - registered military post bearing 6 3-50 Mils stamps (Bale #1-6), with 4 special cachets commemorating the arrival of refugee immigrants from Cyprus, 3 Tel Aviv cancellations (for 28 Jan 1949), and 2 military post cancellations (one for "Office 3" and the other for "Base A") on reverse. Another nice collection of stamps and franks on an improperly franked envelope, which was mailed to [Uri] Milstein, Military Post 291, of the Israel Defence Forces.
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Item Code: 0010170 Price: SOLD
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Israeli Army philatelic booklet, 1969. A philatelic / public relations booklet issued by (and stamped) by the "Postal Service of the IDF Command on the West Bank", called 'Two Open Bridges'. The 10-page booklet opens with an explanation of the philatelic issues, documents and their usage which existed briefly between 1967 and 1969 for transit between Jordan and Israel. With reproductions of Visitor Visa documents in the background, the booklet goes on to describe the landscape of the Jordan Valley and offer optimistic views of how cross-border cooperation between Israel and Jordan can serve both nations as well as the Palestinians. The booklet is franked with a twin-tabbed Bale 208/Scott 194 (from 1961-66) on the front and two Bale 446/Scott 405 (from 1970) on the reverse, both sets with IDF military cancellations from Allenby Bridge. In near-mint condition - and unusual.
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Item Code: 0010066 Price: $50
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DETENTION & INTERNMENT CAMP MAIL POSTAL HISTORY, POSTAGE RATES & EPHEMERA:
The following items are refugee-internee and political detainee post within and outside from Palestine. Internees: the 1939 White Book for Palestine restricted Jewish immigration into the mandate; refugees fleeing persecution in Europe, who successfully entered Palestine but were caught by the authorities, were sent to internment camps. Some internees during the War were also German non-Jewish nationals residing in Palestine and suspected of being hostile agents.
Zionist political activists caught by the authorities were sent to detention camps. In a particularly famous chapter in the Zionist political struggle, 251 underground Irgun/Eztel and Lechi fighters were expelled to East Africa following a Mandatory Government decision of 19 Oct. 1944. They were held for four years in three camps, variously Sambal (sp?) in Eritrea 20.10.44 - 25.01.45, Kartego in Sudan, Sambal again 10.10.45, and then Gilgil in Kenya 2.03.46. Mail correspondence from this period is included below, too.
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Mandatory German-Palestine internee mail: 27 FE 46 stampless cvr w/3-line "Exempt from Postage..." cachet, ex. internee Maria Bleiker in Camp II (in Atlit?) to Swiss Consulate, Jerusalem; with Palestine Police oval cachet on rev.
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Item Code: 0080021 Price: $60
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Palestine Mandate detainee mail: Bethlehem, women's prison 1947 cover ex. Sara Kalek to Yaakov Kalek (spelled differently on obv. than rev.) in Tzfat (Safed); arr. pmk 9 FE 47 and censor cachet; franked at 10 Mils. Return address via "AIG / CID" (Acting Inspector General / Criminal Investigation Department) of the Palestine Police.
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Item Code: 0080022 Price: $60
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Palestine Mandate internee mail: Acre, Jewish internee (i.e. illegal immigrant) 29 JA 42 stampless cover w/3-line "Exempt from Postage..." cachet ex. Ariel Goldstein at Internment Camp 1 in Acco (Acre) to lawyer in Jerusalem (possibly the Asher Levitzky here: www.reubinof.co.il), arr. 30 JA 42; with "Farm Labour Camp Acre" / "Internment Section" cachets on rev. (unlisted in Sacher); censor cachet.
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Item Code: 0080023 Price: $75
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Palestine, Camp Latrun Jewish detainee cover and letter: Mar. 1947 ex. Shlomo Kalek with Jerusalem postmark to Yaakov Kelek in Tzfat (Safed), arr. 12 Mar 47 (cachet on reverse); with 10 Mils franking and boxed "passed by censor" cachet on rev. 1 page letter in Hebrew included.
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Item Code: 0080026 Price: $80
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Palestine, Camp Latrun Jewish detainee cover: 13 JA 47 ex. Shlomo Kalek via "CID-HID" ("CID" - Criminal Investigations Department) with Jerusalem postmark to Yaakov Kelek in Tzfat (Safed), arr. 15 JA 47 (cachet on reverse); with 10 Mils franking and boxed "passed by censor" cachet on rev. Written "Machane Atzirim Latrun" (Latrun Detention Camp) in Hebrew on rev.
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Item Code: 0080027 Price: $60
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Asmara (Eritrea / Ethiopia), Jewish political detainee mail: cover ex. camp ("Sambal" sp?) written by "J. Shraibaum, The Rabbi of the Detainees, Asmara" to wife(?) in Haifa and posted Nov 1945 in Jerusalem; with "Headquarters Palestine Police…CID" ("CID" - Criminal Investigations Department) large box cachet on rev. Rare.
Shraibaum was not a prisoner: following a protest in the Kartego camp in November 1944 over the stoppage of Kosher meat being served, the "National Committee" (Va'ad Leumi) in Palestine sent Rabbi Shraibaum and a Kosher butcher, Rabbi Rosenberg, to service the needs of the prisoners; both lived outside the camp and were given permission to enter and leave (ref: www.etzel.org.il).
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Item Code: 0080024 Price: $300
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Asmara (Eritrea / Ethiopia), Jewish political detainee mail: cover ex. camp ("Sambal" sp?) written by Efraim Eliyahu to "Family Eliyahu" in Jerusalem via CID HQ (Palestine Police, Criminal Investigations Department HQ); posted Nov(?) 1945 in Jerusalem; with censor cachet.
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Item Code: 0080025 Price: $70
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Asmara (Eritrea / Ethiopia), Jewish political detainee mail: cover ex. camp ("Sambal" sp?) written by Efraim Eliyahu to "Family Eliyahu" in Jerusalem via CID HQ (Palestine Police, Criminal Investigations Department HQ); posted Nov(?) 1945 in Jerusalem with 10 Mils franking; with 1-line boxed censor cachet obv. Return address says "Machane Ha'Atzurim Asmara" (Detention Camp Asmara).
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Item Code: 0080028 Price: $70
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Gilgil (Kenya), Zionist political detainee mail: later period cover ex. 3 AUG 47 Efraim Eliyahu in Gilgil via CID-HQ ("CID" - Criminal Investigations Department) in Jerusalem to Family Eliyahu in Jerusalem, with 10 Mils franking and Jer. pmk and pink 3-lined boxed censor cachet on reverse. With Gilgil(?) "religious books, Tefilin, Mezuzot" (áñú''í) private business cachet on reverse.
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Item Code: 0080029 Price: $80
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Gilgil (Kenya), Zionist political detainee mail: later period cover ex. 30 DEC 47 Shlomo Kelek in Gilgil via CID-HIG HQ Palestine Police ("CID HQ" - Criminal Investigations Department Headquarters) in Jerusalem to Moshe Kelek in Hotel Lotman in Tiberias; 10 Mils franking and Jer. pmk and purple 3-line censor cachet on reverse.
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Item Code: 0080030 Price: $80
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Kartego (Sudan), Zionist political detainee mail: ex. 6 AP 45 Efraim Eliyahu in Kartego via CID-HQ ("CID HQ" - Criminal Investigations Department Headquarters of the Palestine Police) Jerusalem to Family Eliyahu, with 10 Mils franking and Jerusalem pmk. 5-line Palestine Police censorship cachet on reverse and 3-line military cachet on obv.
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Item Code: 0080031 Price: $90
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Postcard sent from Rose Tustian at 211 Transit Camp in Ismaila, Egypt to a Sergeant Kossar at the Clearance Camp in Atlit, Palestine. The letter, in French, is written to Rose's brother and in it she describes how she left Haifa on 4 October 1946 at 3pm by rail and arrived at 7am the next morning (Friday) in good health. She writes that she doesn't know when she will catch the boat, and that she will write again when she knows. The card features an arial depiction of the Suez Canal on one side, and bears a 'T' cachet on the reverse. Although the Egyptian stamp is missing, the card itself is a fascinating document.
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Item Code: 0020014.2 Price: SOLD
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MANDATORY GOVERNMENT & CIVILIAN MAIL POSTAL HISTORY, POSTAGE RATES & EPHEMERA:
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Palestine Mandate postal history: (Mandatory Government mail) cover ex. Palestine Police M.T. ["Motor Transport"?] Workshop in Haifa (cachet Sacher #23a - but missing "certified official" at base) 8 AP 43 sent to Chief Rabbinate and arrived same day at Nahala branch post office on Tavor Street (cachet: Proud #D2)
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Item Code: 0080010 Price: $30
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Palestine Mandatory Government mail: cover ex. FPO (number unknown) probably Jerusalem, given the A.H.Q. Levant cachet, sent to the Treasurer of Haifa municipality 10 May 47, and arrived 14 MY 47 in Haifa w/Supernumary Police [i.e. Jewish Settlement Police / "Notrim"] HQ Haifa cachet (unlisted in Sacher).
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Item Code: 0080011 Price: $50
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Palestine Mandate civilian mail sent through FPO on 29 MY 40 on "Navy, Army and Air Force Institute" (NAAFI) stationary to NAAFI in Jerusalem, with censor cachet (unlisted in Sacher) and proper 10 Mils franking
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Item Code: 0080012 Price: $20
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Palestine Mandate reduced postage rate: The Union of Religious Writers weekly paper "BaMishor" ('In the Field') sent from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv at the reduced 2 mils rate - 2m pictoral stamp (#90) tied to newspaper by Jerusalem 23 DE 43 postmark. Sent to "Sh. Ch. Kook" - probably Rabbi Shlomo Kook, a nephew of Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak HaCohen Kook, who also contributed articles to this paper (including this edition); possibly forwarded to his post box address (290 ?) rather than to his street address, Yehuda Halevy 33. The newspaper is complete, with all 12 pages, with fold at center though with some stains and a few minor tears at the bottom of the pages.
Though not printed on the newspaper itself, the regular newspaper rate at this time was 3 mils, though the 2 mils rate was granted for newspapers registered at the post office - very rare.
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Item Code: 0120051 Price: $1500
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Palestine Mandate reduced postage rate: The Union of Religious Writers weekly paper "BaMishor" ('In the Field') sent from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv at the reduced 2 mils rate - 2m red Jerusalem "postage paid" machine cancellation (Sacher #E15 - but dated later than his catalogued 'latest' date of 17 AU 43!) dated 26 JA 44. Sent to "Sh. Ch. Kook" - probably Rabbi Shlomo Kook, a nephew of Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak HaCohen Kook, who also contributed articles to this paper; possibly forwarded to his post box address (290) rather than to his street address, Yehuda Halevy 33. The newspaper is complete, with all 8 pages, with light fold at center; otherwise in excellent condition.
Though not printed on the newspaper itself, the regular newspaper rate at this time was 3 mils, though the 2 mils rate was granted for newspapers registered at the post office - very rare.
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Item Code: 0120052 Price: $2000
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Cover from Syracuse, New York to Kiryat Haim, opened and resealed by the Censor. The letter took a few months to reach its destination: it was postmarked 27 Aug. 1941 from Syracuse, reached Kiryat Haim on Nov. 20th, was sent over to Haifa on the 21st (probably for the censor's check) and returned again finally to Kiryat Haim on the same day - about 3 weeks before America's entry into the war.
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Item Code: 0020010.1 Price: SOLD
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ISRAELI STATE and 'YISHUV' / JEWISH AGENCY RELATED MAIL
POSTAL HISTORY, POSTAGE RATES and EPHEMERA:
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'Yishuv' mail: cover with letter, from "Pechach" - the Combat Veterans and Pioneers Organization, from their head office in Munich, Germany. Envelope was opened by the U.S. Military Censor of civilian mail, resealed and stamped as such. The envelope was posted 29 Nov. 1946 from Munich (on Mich. 934; 75pf), passed through Istanbul on 12 Dec. 1946 and arrived at Rosh Pina, Palestine still in December the same year. The letter itself is from a different date, but is handwritten in Hebrew on Pechach stationary. It looks like the ink of the letter's original envelope passed through to the paper and the same sender's name and address can be seen along with a comment in German that looks like "Jewish Writing" ("geschreiben judisch"). The organization (actually known in Hebrew as the "Soldier-Pioneer Companies") sent combat veterans to help immigrant ships sailing to Palestine to break the British blockade on illegal immigration.
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Item Code: 0020010.0 Price: SOLD
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Israeli Government registered stationary envelope mailed from the Foreign Currency Department in Jerusalem (and stamped as such, 24 Oct. 1950), and mailed to a bank in Haifa. The cover bears registered mail labels and counterstamps, and three additonal counterstamps commemorating 'UN Day'. Interesting early government ephemera.
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Item Code: 0010136 Price: $10
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Israeli Post Office postcard mailed to Bank Leumi in Haifa from Gaza city, 10 Dec. 1956, and received in Haifa the following day. The card bears civil (i.e. not military) cancellation stamps on Bale 45 and 119 (no wmk). Israeli post from this period is scarce insofar that Israel occupied the Gaza strip for all of four and a half months between November 1956 and March 1957; Israel only annexed the territory during her subsequent occupation, beginning in June 1967. Gaza is now no longer a part of Israel, as of September 2005.
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Item Code: 0010135 Price: $10
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Israel: interesting postcard from the World Forum of Youth and Students in Moscow, 1961 mailed to Haifa Israel. The Forum was one of two organized gatherings of students in Moscow (the second was in 1964), and took place between 25 July and 3 August 1961. The card is written in German (Yiddish?) using Hebrew letters, from a son to his parents; the address is written in Hebrew however. Though missing the stamp, the postcard is dated 29 July and arrived in Haifa on 1 August. The card also bears a Russian airmail sticker - "Avia", and a stamp in Russian - "International".
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Item Code: 0020014.4 Price: SOLD
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Israel: airmail envelope with letterhead of the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission, 1960s. In Israel, the Prime Minister chairs the Commission, and the body itself was originally established by Ben Gurion, in 1952. The Commission's activities were originally based in Rehovot, until in 1958 the Atomic Research Facility was established in Nahal Sorek. In 1959 the Nuclear Research Center was established in the Negev - from where comes this unique envelope. In excellent condition, though with a fold in the center and light age marks in places.
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Item Code: 0010096 Price: $20
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HOLOCAUST MAIL and GHETTO POST POSTAL HISTORY and EPHEMERA:
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Jewish airmail postcard 10/1941 ex Wittersdorf (German occupied and annexed Alsace, France) to Potenza, Italy; written in German on German pc with German franking; sent via Berlin, with Italian arr pmks
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Item Code: 0080750 Price: $80
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Rare Vilna (Wilno) Ghetto arrest order: issued by the "Arbeitzpolizei" (Labor Police) of the Ghetto on 10/04/43 for a Chaim Midzuik, born 1909, to report to a labor camp for work duty. With German/Lithuanian cachets and filing holes.
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Item Code: 0080751 Price: $500
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Parcel packet receipt ex "Krakau" 29.05.43 to "Community Camp" (labour camp) Spandau Freiheit in Berlin, arr. 10.6.43; issued on form DPO 443 (3.41) of the Administration for German Post in the East.
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Item Code: 0080752 Price: $65
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Parcel packet receipt ex Riga (Latvia) 20.8.43 to "Einsatzstab Reichleiter Rosenberg" in Kiev, arr. 1 Sept 43.
This Einsatzstab, named after Alfred Rosenberg, was the entity responsible for appropriation of property left behind by Jews in occupied Europe. Issued on form C 20. Rare
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Item Code: 0080753 Price: $100
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Parcel packet receipt ex Oslo (Norway) 24.08.43 to Oranienburg concentration camp in Berlin, arr. 27.08.43; issued on Norwegian postal stationary. Non-Jewish named recipient; maybe POW. Rare.
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Item Code: 0080754 Price: $125
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Ghetto Judenrat cachet: Lemberg (Lvov) pmk 8.6.43 tying Deutches Reich General Gouvernement stp to Polish pc.; prepared but unused.
Rare: the Ghetto and the remainder of the Judenrat had already been destroyed and slaughtered in January 1943, with the Lvov labor camp being destroyed 1 June 1943.
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Item Code: 0080755 Price: $150
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Hungarian forced labor mail: early postcard ex labor company 207/8 in work camp ("tabori") on 17.10.40 to Budapest; with military type "514" pmk.
Rare early usage: postcard image of Royal Hungarian crown and "Erdely" ("Transylvania"); printed Sept. 1940, one month after North Transylvania was ceded to Hungary.
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Item Code: 0080756 Price: $100
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Romanian refugee camp mail: ex Polish Refugee Camp (per cachet) 26 MAR 41 by an "internee" to city of Brasov, arr 29 MAR 41; with Police censor cachet.
Unusual: camp probably set up to house ethnic Poles of Romanian citizenship.
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Item Code: 0080757 Price: $100
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Theresienstadt ("Polish Prison Camp") pre-printed change of address postcard ex 27.03.44 w/Bauschowitz pmk.
Text says to please not send more packages to this address and to wait for new address (i.e. sender was about to be "resettled" - transported - to a death camp; Terezin was just a transit camp). Rare.
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Item Code: 0080758 Price: $125
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China-Berlin mail: pc ex Jewish refugee in Shanghai 31.08.40 to Jewish uncle in Berlin via Siberia; Rosh Hashana (New Year's) greeting; with Wehrmacht censor cachet.
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Item Code: 0080759 Price: $50
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Judenrat Warsaw: ppc ex Warsaw Ghetto 27.01.42 to Switzerland; w/2-lined boxed "Judenrat Warschau" cachet, multiple censor cachets and Wehrmacht cachet; portion of text censored out.
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Item Code: 0080760 Price: $80
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Dutch emigration confirmation receipt from the Emigration service ("Auswanderungsabteilung") of the Jewish Council of Amsterdam of emigration request by Herbert Hirsch, on 15.12.41.
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Item Code: 0080761 Price: $65
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Dutch post-Holocaust: set of 2 repatriation documents (May-June 1945) from liberated Westerbork concentration camp ("k.w.") regarding transport arrangements for Barak and Herschel Bluth; one issued by Repatriation Council in Amsterdam and other by Camp Kommandant.
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Item Code: 0080762 Price: $80
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Postcard from the anti-Semitic exhibition, "The Eternal Jew", Munich, Germany, Nov. 8, 1937 (exactly 1 year before Krystallnacht). Franked and cancelled with special cachet to mark the event, and mailed to a Josef Hagemann in Thuringen-Ulm. Has a few minor surface scuffs. The exhibition ran until 31 January, 1938. According to one source, it attracted 412,000 visitors and Gestapo reports indicated that it fostered a sharp rise in anti-Semitic feelings, leading in some cases to violence against the Jewish community.
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Item Code: 0040007 Price: SOLD
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The following 6 postcards come from the same source, and three of them were mailed to the same individual - enabling us to better understand the cards' sources and content:
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Hungarian forced-labor brigade mail: postcard with green 18 Filler pre-paid postage stamp, postmarked 29 Mar. 1944. Postcard is in blue-green print, from the Royal Hungarian Press, and dated "Budapest 1943". Postmarked from Budapest and sent to Chenger (a Satmar Chasidic community); stamped by the military censor ("Ellenorizve"), and sent by Ferenc Flesch of Labor Company 113 vap. The card is densely packed with writing but as of the moment it is difficult to relate its content...
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Item Code: 0020015.2 Price: SOLD
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Hungarian forced-labor brigade mail: postcard with green 18 Filler pre-paid postage stamp, postmarked 11 Jan. 1944. Postcard is in blue-green print, from the Royal Hungarian Press and dated "Budapest 1943". Postmarked by the Royal Hungarian Movement Post ("M. Kir. Mozgo Posta"), to a "Lady" Biro Ilava, subletting at a location belonging to Taub Ferenc in Budepest. Among the text of the card, the sender writes "Thank G-d I arrived safely. In the meantime no good news." Although the sender is unknown and the content is difficult to read, this is one of 3 cards mailed to Ms. Biro, one of which indicates that the origins of all three are from the labor companies.
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Item Code: 0020015.1 Price: SOLD
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Hungarian forced-labor brigade mail: postcard with maroon 12 Filler pre-paid postage stamp, postmarked 3 Dec. 1943 from Kassa (today's Kosice - in Slovakia) and received 4 Dec. 1943 in Budapest (postmark on a 12 Filler stamp). Postcard is in maroon-red print, from the Royal Hungarian Press, and dated "Budapest 1943". The card is another that was sent to Ms. Bela Ilava, sub-letting at Taub Ferenc. The content is as yet unknown but to my Hungarian translator it looks like it was written in a hurry.
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Item Code: 0020015.4 Price: SOLD
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Hungarian forced-labor brigade mail: postcard with maroon 12 Filler pre-paid postage stamp, postmarked 16 Mar. 1943 from Budapest. Postcard is in maroon-red print, from the Royal Hungarian Press, and dated "Budapest 1943". The card was sent from Flesche Pal of the 707/1 Work Company in Diosek to Biro Eudieue sub-letting at Taub Ferenc in Budapest. Biro's name appears as "Ilava" in the other two later-dated cards, suggesting that the writer may have married her sometime after this card. Pal writes: "My love, I arrived alright at the transit camp in Berezbem. I hope that you also feel well. My little one, parting from you was hard. Unfortunately there's not much hope. I wear your soul on me."
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Item Code: 0020015.5 Price: SOLD
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Hungarian forced-labor brigade mail: postcard with maroon 12 Filler pre-paid postage stamp, postmarked 19 Dec. 1944. Postcard is in maroon-red print, from the Royal Hungarian Press, and dated "Budapest 1944". It is postmarked from Budapest and stamped with a "T" cachet, and sent to Mekes Lojos in Budapest. Although the sender's name is not identified and no labor company code appears on the content, this card is part of the same consignment of labor company mail, and its content makes clear from where the sender is writing: "To my sick wife, we have arrived here. We are sleeping on the floor. We have not been fed. There are so many people that the Jewish charity organization can't supply food. If you or someone else would be able to send food, the gate here is open on 9th of November, between 2-4pm. I would gladly pay whatever the price. I would really like cigarettes. Thank G-d I have my health, but my poor wife, I don't know if I can hold up."
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Item Code: 0020015.3 Price: SOLD
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Hungarian forced-labor brigade mail: black and white picture postcard of Banhida, postmarked 15 Oct. 1942 from Banhida, with a black 3 Filler stamp. The card is stamped by the censor of the Royal Hungarian Labor Company II/4 ("M. kir. II./4. Kmsz. szd. Ellenorizve") in two lines. The card was sent to Veigest Gyorgy.
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Item Code: 0020015.6 Price: SOLD
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FOREIGN POSTAL LINKS and UNDERCOVER / PRIVATE MAIL SERVICES:
JUDAIC PHILATELIC and HISTORICAL EPHEMERA:
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Postwar Poland/USSR (1946-47): the following 3 documents relate to the movements and whereabouts of a Jewish-Polish Holocaust survivor, Berek Frydman. They give a fascinating insight into the immediate postwar experience of survivors in the eastern bloc, and also of the bureaucracy of the Soviet-Polish authorities of that time.
The first document is a primitive-looking Soviet 'Reference [letter]' issued to citizen 'Fridman, B.' who works in the invalid workers' cooperative "Artel 'Molot'" in the capacity of an at-home shoemaker.' In spite of its improvised appearance, the document bears official counter-stamps, one of which is still pre-formatted to the 1930's: The document was issued on 1 Nov. 1946, in the Yuzhno-Kazakhstan Oblast in Turkmenistan, and signed by the head manageress Olshayetzkaya and her secretary Kandelky. The 'stationary' counterstamp simply states the "invalid cooperative"s name and location.
A subsequent document shows that Frydman was born in a Polish city occupied by the Germans (i.e. not the Soviets) in 1939; Frydman may have escaped the German advance and entered Soviet territory (afterwhich the Soviets may have deported him eastward), or perhaps he survived a camp and was liberated by the Soviets. It may be that Frydman was liberated - that would explain his presence at an invalid's workers' cooperative.
The second document is a Polish work certificate issued by the Employment Office for the Wroclaw (formerly Breslau) district - in the city of Walbryzch, on 8 May 1947 (i.e. 2 years after the Second World War) - though stamped both by the Polish office and by the Soviet administration. It appears that Frydman was repatriated back to Poland, and he worked at an electrical firm. His presence there was confirmed 3 separate times that year by the stamps on the back of the form - until September 1947.
The third document is a Polish-issued temporary certification of identity, issued roughly a year after the reference letter (31 Dec. 1947) by the authorities in the city of Zarad (in the county of Walbrzych) - on Stalina Street #11 (note the predominance of Stalin's name in Eastern Europe at this time) - to Frydman, who is listed as being born in Pulawy. This certificate's validity expired a year later. The document is stamped by the city authorities.
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Item Code: 0010126 Price: $75
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MISCELLANEOUS PHILATELIC and HISTORICAL EPHEMERA:
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Eretz Israel "Knesset Israel" receipt, 1931: a receipt paid in the sum of 250 Palestinian Mils to the Rabbinate Office of the "Hebrew Community Committee of Yaffo-Tel Aviv, Knesset Israel" (the "Va'ad Ha'Kehila") for a Rabbinical Court judgment ("psak din"), dated by the Hebrew calendar "T'u Tamuz Tartza" - 30 June 1931, and stamped by the Community Committee.
"Knesset Israel" was the first organized administrative organ of the Jewish community in Palestine (the "Yishuv"), formed in 1920, and providing for the education, social-welfare and religious needs of the Yishuv at large; in 1928 it was recognized as an official administrative organ by the Mandatory Government and issued guidelines for its operation. Knesset Israel oversaw the Chief Rabbinate, composed of one Ashkenazi and one Sephardic Chief Rabbi, who in turn oversaw the "Community Committee" in whose name this receipt was made out. When the State of Israel was established the new government absorbed the functions maintained until then by the Knesset Israel. A scarce example of early Eretz Israel governance; in excellent condition.
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Item Code: 0070010 Price: $12
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Eretz Israel / Palestinian citizenship order, 1929: issued in the name of the then High Comissioner for Palestine, (Sir) J. (John) R. (Robert) Chancellor to a Shmuel Kroz of Machane Brenner in Tel Aviv, originally from Russia and now a "merchant" in Palestine, married to Sima and the father of Ze'ev. The document dated 6 January 1929 bestowed "the status of a Palestinian citizen" to Shmuel, his wife and child. The document is in the three main languages of the Mandate - English (in stately font), Hebrew and Arabic, with the fields filled in with English and Hebrew.
With tragic irony, it was much easier for Jews to enter and settle in Palestine during the 1920's than during the '30s when Jewry was under much greater threat - a document like this had a high premium only a year or two after the date it was issued here. Sir Chancellor served as the Mandate's High Comissioner from 1928 to 1931, and during his tenure, while in London, the Arab riots of 1929 broke out. A fascinating document little seen and in good condition (several creases from vertical and horizontal folds, and some frays to the bottom edge).
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Item Code: 0070011 Price: SOLD
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Austerity period food ration booklet, mid-1950s. This is the "Bet" version, issued in Haifa to Nava Ben-Herut (born 1951); booklet # 158052. A more 'advanced' version of the austerity period rationing booklets, now using IBM punch-card technology and printed personal data. Issued by the Food Division of the Ministry of Trade and Industry. Stamped on the cover "Consumer # 6765, Rommema 'Alef'", with yellow pages and black/green print.
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Item Code: 0020010.4 Price: SOLD
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Scarce membership card of the Association of the Labour Zionist Party / Poale-Zion (Z.S.) - Hitachduth in Germany, 1947 - issued shortly after the Holocaust and Second World War. A simple folded card with a blue and white stripe across a red background on the covers; written in Hebrew and English, with some transliterated German in Hebrew letters (i.e. no German text). Issued on 1 June 1947 to Leah Zuckerberg (born 1919) in the Ulm (Hindenburg) party branch; the Party was headquartered in Munich. The card contains a 12-box grid for monthly Party dues, ironically ending in May 1948 (Israel's Independence period), and a place for the card-holder's picture (since removed). The card bears the stamps of the "Head Office of the Zionist Organization in Germany" as well as of the Ulm branch of the Labour Zionist Party. In very good condition with some frayed edges, and wear to the creases.
Modern Israeli politics is a complicated galaxy of personalities and movements: in this case, the Poale-Zion (meaning "Zionist Labourers" - Labour Zionists) originated as a movement of Marxist Zionist Jewish workers founded in various Russian cities at the turn of the 20th Century, which in turn split into three tendencies, thence into 3 separate parties in 1906 - Zionist-Socialists (to which this card-holder was a member), Jewish Socialists, and the Poale-Zion - and finally into one main Poale-Zion party. The party began its activities in Eretz-Israel in 1904 (with the Second "Aliya" - immigration movement), which eventually included the founding of the first Kibbutz, the foundation of the "Ha'Shomer" guard movement to protect Jewish settlements, and the movement for the ideological "conquest" of Jewish-Zionist labour ("Kibbush Avodah", in Hebrew). The Party was also active in the creation of the Jewish Legion of the British Army in the First World War. David Ben-Gurion, the future first Prime Minister of Israel and member of the Poale-Zion from Poland, in Eretz-Israel as head of the Zionist Labour Federation - the "Histadrut" - merged the Poale-Zion with the "Achdut Ha'Avoda" ("Work Association") Party, which in later years became the Mapai ("Mifleget Poalei Eretz-Israel" - Israel Workers Party) Party and in turn the basis of the present Israeli Labour Party.
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Item Code: 0010212 Price: SOLD
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Certificate of Immigration ("Teudat Aliya"), 1935. Issued by the Central Office of Immigration to Eretz Israel, of the Jewish Agency in Warsaw to Yitzhak Kramer (b. 1907); # 3507. He left Warsaw on 24 June 1935 and arrived in Palestine on 30 June 1935 on the ship "Polonia". According to the notation in his booklet, his sole means were £2, and the costs of his immigration were borne by the Lvov branch of the Eretz Israel Office whose stamp is on that page. The certificate contains an ornate lable of the Jewish National Fund, as well as printed instructions and procedures on the inside covers for the prospective New Immigrant.
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Item Code: 0020010.9 Price: SOLD
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The following 5 sets items are from the estate of Paul Mortge and Yehudit Lave.
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ARP (Association for Protection against Gas and Air Attacks) Haifa membership booklet. Hardcover in dark-green and printed in Hebrew and English. This is the membership card of Paul Mortge (aged 18, born 1924) of Hillel Street #52, in the position of a warden, issued in July 1942, in Haifa. It appears that Mortge joined the ARP in 1940 and that this membership was either renewed or the booklet re-issued in 1942. The booklet contains the stamp of the ARP (probably from 1942) and the stamp of the Association for Civil Defense, Haifa, of the [pre-State] National Guard (Mishmar Ha'am), probably from 1946. The pages are loose, but booklet and pages in good condition.
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Item Code: 0020010.10 Price: SOLD
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Identity Card, [Mandatory] Government of Palestine, 1946. Issued to Paul Mortge, this is the second issue of this document to him. The document is light pink hard paper, issued in Haifa and stamped by the district authorities. Paul's occupation is listed as "Clerk". One interesting stamp states that "possession of this card in no way constitutes evidence of legal residence in Palestine". One unusual omission from the card's template is its holders date of birth - but we know from other documents that Paul was 22 at the time this card was issued. All fields are printed in English but all are hand-written in both English and Hebrew (including the date of issue).
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Item Code: 0020010.11 Price: SOLD
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Wireless receiving licences, [Mandatory] Government of Palestine - 3 licenses, 1944-47. All three licenses were issued to Paul Mortge, the first in February 1944, the second in February 1945 and the third in February 1946, all from the Hadar HaCarmel branch office in Haifa. The first license was written out on the form based on the Wireless Telegraphy Ordinance of 1924, which was out of date by the time it was issued - the correct price of 1 Palestinian Pound was paid instead of the 750 Mils as printed on the form, and the payment was stamped a few times on this document. The other two licenses were issued as per the Ordinance of 1943. The interesting thing about these documents is that all three are "Renewals" (the 'N' in 'RN' at the top has been struck out per instructions on the form), and the license holder - Paul - was just 20 years old at the time the first document was issued. Given the relative uniqueness of possessing a wireless license and of the holders young age, it is possible that his station was used by the pre-State underground organizations for their communications purposes. Documents have crease-marks, thinned in places or frayed at the edges.
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Item Code: 0020010.12 Price: SOLD
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Marriage documents, Israel, 1954. Eight documents relating to the marriage of Paul Mortge to Yehudit Lave, on 26 October 1954. There are two copies of the Marriage Certificate issued by the Ministry of Religious Affairs, and stamped by the Chief Rabbinate of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, along with a pre-printed cover letter from the city Rabbinate confirming the issue and congratulating the young couple. There are two letters on official stationary from invitees - one from the Canada-Israel Central Bank and another from the Agricultural Association, and a letter of greeting in German to Paul from a well-wisher of the Beit Israel Religious and Cultural Association in Haifa. There is also a confirmation of payment from the catering company(?) (Bejarano Bros.) and a visiting card of the wedding hall (Ron).
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Item Code: 0020010.13 Price: SOLD
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Bank documents (2), Barclays Bank, Israel & Palestine, 1946-56. A Debit Note issued by Barclays Dominion, Colonial and Overseas services to Paul Mortge in May 1946, in the amount of 35 Palestinian Pounds. Also the savings account book written in the name of Paul's son, Eliyahu, a soft plastic-cover booklet issued by the Hadar HaCarmel branch of Barclays DC&O service in 1956, and stamped several times by the bank itself. The transactions were entered by hand from 1956 to 1970. At the time of issue, Paul was still living on Hillel Street #52, but now his occupation is listed as "Driver" - a prestigious public position in those days.
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Item Code: 0020010.14 Price: SOLD
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Early Israeli "Certificate of Immigration", 1948. The 'Te'udat Aliya' is a central document in the course of making immigration to Israel and effectively fulfilling the 'Zionist Vision'. This 6-page booklet is unique for the reason that it was issued just 2 months after Israel's declaration of independence, in July 1948, and at the height of the War of Independence (1948-49). This document was issued by the Jewish Agency for Palestine's Absorption Department of the Division for Immigration, to Moshe Shulman. Shulman, aged 32 from Poland, was issued his immigration certificate on 8 July 1948 in Pardes Hannah. He arrived on the ship "Von Breshchen" (sp?) with his wife Rebecca and listed relatives in the country who were living in Kfar Blum. The certificate documents certain events for Shulman: he left the immigrants' home on 12 July 1948, and on 10 February 1949 the customs house in Tel Aviv stamped that is released 3 packages (containers) representing all of Shulman's delivery. A unique document representing the earliest wave of new immigrants following the establishment of Israel, as well as the establishment of the new state's bureaucracy for absorbing and assisting immigrants. In used but well-preserved condition.
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Item Code: 0010006 Price: SOLD
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Early Israeli identity booklet, 1949. An early version of the State's first 'Te'udat Zehut' (certificate of identification). This 10-paged booklet ('Pinkas'; with a stylized Menorah and "State of Israel" background template on the pages) represents a combination of legal identity in the new-born State, a confirmation of voting rights, as well as a form of official entitlement to services under the austerity regime of the period 1948-60. This document was issued on 9 January 1949 - towards the end of the War of Independence - to Leah Melnik of Kfar Blum. Bearing her photograph, the document described Melnik as being 33 years old, Jewish, blue-eyed, brown-haired of medium build and measuring 165 cm.; married, and living in Kfar Blum since 1947; she was born in Latvia but is listed as a "citizenless person" whose profession is as an agricultural worker.
The heavily-stamped document includes these notations: a stamp of the "Ministry of Interior of the State of Israel" - on the photograph; membership in the union of assembled machinists; registered as voting for the 2nd, 4th, 6th and 7th Knesset and for the 43rd Zionist Congress; registered as receiving her ration book for 1949, her points card for 1951, her food card for 1951 and again for 1953-54 and 1955-56; registered as receiving a special purchasing card for pregnant women, in 1952. All the pages are now stamped "Cancelled". A remarkable document attesting to the early bureaucracy and order of the new Israeli state; a document representing all the rights and privileges that many Jews fought (and often lost their lives for) before, during and after the Second World War.
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Item Code: 0010007 Price: SOLD
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Mandatory Palestine permanent curfew pass issued during the "Great Uprising" (or "Arab Revolt") of 1936-39, to Dr. M. Rachmilevitz - a doctor at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem - by the Jerusalem police authorities, in October 1938. According to the document, stamped by Hadassah hospital and by the Jerusalem Commissioner's office, Rachmilevitz is entitled to move between his home and the hospital during curfew hours. An unusual and interesting document, in used (Fine) condition.
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Item Code: 0010054 Price: SOLD
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Pre-State Israeli bureaucracy: original typed memorandums from the Jewish National Fund's ('Keren Kayemeth Le'Israel') head office in Jerusalem to the JNF's Lithuanian offices in Kovno, September 1924 (i.e. on the eve of the Jewish New Year), on official letterhead stationary. The first letter, from 2 September is an invoice for the shipment of booklets of JNF labels (i.e. stamps produced by the JNF), of various images. The labels were sold to raise funds for the JNF, and as this letter exhorts, "as per our conclusions in letter L/A 2161 from 18/8, we propose increasing the sales [of labels]".
The second letter from 8 September, to Kovno, is a 2-sided document confirming various issued raised in past correspondences: Jerusalem's receipt of news clippings about the JNF from the Kovno office; compliments on August (1924) being a record fund-raising month for the JNF's Lithuanian office - a pen-written comment indicates that Jerusalem forsaw record months occuring following [Menachem] Ussishkin's (the JNF's chairman 1923-41) visit there. Another point mentions the production of pocket calendars in Kishinev (Moldova), and that only a certain amount (2000) were sent to Lithuania in Hebrew because they're more relevant for use in Eretz Israel. A further point lists a series of correspondences by code number for which Jerusalem was still awaiting replies from Kovno. Both letters are replete with bureaucratic filing codes, hand-stamps and JNF labels - the stationary is even marked with form codes. Remarkable documents of Israel's original establishing bodies.
The Jewish National Fund was established in 1901, during the Fifth Zionist Congress (in Basel), as a mechanism to purchase land in Palestine to enable Jews to immigrate there and establish the communities which would enable a Jewish state to rise in the future.
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Item Code: 0120001 Price: SOLD
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Israeli radio license document, 1952-58. This fold-out card was issued to Zvi Mishori of Shtand street in Tel Aviv, in November 1951. Every year the holder of this document would go to the post office to pay the annual fee to possess a radio: the card is franked with both the 1st and 2nd series revenue stamps, and all are cancelled. According to the dates set in the form, the annual licensing for Mishori was valid until the end of October, though to judge by the counter-stamps it appears that he paid the fees early one year (1956) and late the following year (1957). The actual license card was issued at that time by the Ministry of Transport, Mail, Telegraph, Telephone and Radio.
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Item Code: 0010177 Price: SOLD
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United Nations in Palestine visa documents, 1959-60. A lot of 7 visa request documents placed by the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization for Palestine headquarters in Jerusalem with the Jordanian immigration authorities in Jerusalem. The visa requests were made for Australian, Canadian, Danish and Italian Army officers serving as UN military observers, as well as for the wife of a New Zealand Army observer and Under Secretary of the UNTSO. The UNTSO was established in 1948 to oversee implementation and observation of the Israel-Jordan cease-fire agreement of 1949. The documents were issued and signed by the General Service Officer in the Visa Section of the UNTSO, bearing the stamps of the United Nations, and are all in excellent, preserved condition.
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Item Code: 0010065 Price: $20
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