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ISRAEL, PALESTINE and WORLD stamps, mail, specialty covers and philatelics
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Confederate States of America - uncut block of 4 CSA #12 (KB - Keatinge and Ball Printing) dark-blue 10 cents stamps. Near-mint (has horizontal crease-line at center of block), original gum, unused and unhinged; well-centered. A lovely block. This stamp series was originally printed Richmond, Virginia, by Archer & Daly Printing in May 1863, but in August-September 1864, fearing the fall of the city to Union forces, the printing plates were transferred to Columbia, South Carolina, where they were produced by Keatinge and Ball. This stamp series ceased to be produced in February 1865 when Columbia was captured by the Union army.
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Item Code: 0010044 Price: $125
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Danish West Indies pre-paid postcard for 3 Cents, circa 1870-1902. Text and stamp in carmine-rose color; stamp has thick inverted frame. Uniface, in crisp unused condition.
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Item Code: 0010033 Price: $20
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France - 2 air labels belonging to the collaborationist French Volunteer Legion (LVF) of the German Army, in World War 2. The French Volunteer Legion [against Bolshevism] - the 'Legion Francais Contre le Bolshevisme' - was formed within days of Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union, on 22 June 1941. The movement for an establishment of such a volunteer force came not from the collaborationist Vichy regime, but rather from Fascist organizations that operated within occupied France - a creature that earned the derision of both the German government and the French public. The Legion barely numbered 2,300 men, but it served the same symbolic capacity as similar collaborationist units serving in the German ranks during the first half of the Second World War, and earned a reputation for its tough combat ability on the Eastern Front. As such, following its evolution through a few re-titled reincarnations in the ranks of the Waffen-SS in the latter half of the War, many of its veterans met their end serving France during the early years of the Vietnam war, notably at Dien Bien Phu in 1956.
These air labels were part of a series of privately produced philately promoting the Legion. These 2 labels are the 1942 bi-lingual overprints of the original issue from Nov. 1941, with 'Front De L'Est / Ostfront' (Eastern Front) in black. Similar to the aspirations of other foreign legions in German service, these labels bear strong French associations in design and language - both also retain tabs bearing the Vichy hammer emblem. The Air Tax label is the version lacking accents on the word 'Special' and 'Francais'. Mint.
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Item Code: 0010138 Price: $120
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German World War I prisoner of war camp post - a postcard from a Miss Giesaroshskaya in Vilna (presumably the lady in the photo on obverse) to Russian inmate (number 50155, Mr. Lisek Gilarovski) at Block 5, barrack(?) 18 of a prisoner of war camp in Hammerstein (West Prussia). The postcard was written on the 13th of July 1917 and postmarked on the 16th, with a German-language counterstamp ('Wilna'). The receiving camp censor stamped the card with 'Prisoner of War Communication - Hammerstein, Examined #26'.
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Item Code: 0010035 Price: $30
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Israel - set of 4 "Doar Ivri" (Hebrew Post), high value Mils issue, 1948 (Bale 7-9). The lot includes 3 mint, unhinged 250, 500 and 1000 Mils stamps, plus one cancelled 250 Mils piece. The 1000 Mils, in particular, is well-centered and a handsome piece.
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Item Code: 0010041 Price: $410
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Israel - set of 5 Postage due 1st issue "Doar Ivri" (Hebrew Post), 1948. Bale PD1-PD5; cancelled, no gum, lightly hinged.
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Item Code: 0010042 Price: $65
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The following items - 'Minhelet Ha'am' post - are pre-State Israeli post which existed during the brief period between the British Mandate Postal Administration's closure and the termination of the Mandate itself (April 15 - May 14, 1948). In the gradual absence of mail service by the Mandate, the "Jewish Peoples' Administration" - 'Minhelet Ha'am' - authorized the usage of available labels belonging to the Jewish National Fund. During the period of this interim postage, from May 2nd until 22 May 1948, such labels overprinted with the Hebrew word 'Doar' (Post) were used as postage for mail.
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Israel - 'Minhelet Ha'am' (People's Administration) commercial cover, properly franked with a 10-mils Jewish Sportsmen green JNF label (Bale #21) with black Haifa "Doar" ovpt and scarce Zichron Ya'akov cancellation (in black; Bale pmk A/80). Addressed to "Mr. Yehoshua Paltzel(?)" at the Tel Aviv Municipality's Department for Higher Education, on 31 Bezalel St., from Zichron Ya'akov.
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Item Code: 0010163 Price: $60
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Israel - 'Minhelet Ha'am' (People's Administration) commercial cover from Binyamina to Tel Aviv, properly franked with a 10-mils Diaspora Series 1 blue (Bale # 50b). The cachet is unclear but would have to be from Binyamina.
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Item Code: 0010164 Price: $20
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Israel - 'Minhelet Ha'am' (People's Administration) envelope bearing 1 10-mils Diaspora Series-2 brown JNF label (Bale #54) and 1 50-mils black Bialik/Herzl JNF label (Bale #27), with Tel Aviv "Doar" overprint in violet and cancelled in Tel Aviv (in black; Bale pmk A/73), and two more Minhelet Ha'am cachets on rev. A nice collection of stamps and franks on an improperly franked envelope, hence the reduced price.
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Item Code: 0010161 Price: $10
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Israel - 'Minhelet Ha'am' (People's Administration) envelope bearing 1 10-mils Technion green JNF label (Bale #14) with violet Tel Aviv "Doar" ovpt and cancellation (in black; Bale pmk A/73), 1 10-mils brown (Bale #30 - no ovpt) and 1 50-mils black Bialik/Herzl JNF label (Bale #27), with Tel Aviv "Doar" overprint in violet - both tied to Tel Aviv cancellation (Bale pmk A/73), and two more Minhelet Ha'am cachets on reverse. A nice collection of stamps and franks on an improperly franked envelope, hence the reduced price.
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Item Code: 0010162 Price: SOLD
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Israel - Minhelet Ha'am (People's Administration) single 10-mils Technion green (Bale #14), with violet Tel Aviv "Doar" ovpt and black Tel Aviv cancellation (Bale pmk A/73); properly franked envelope for a letter, but the cover is blank so it's not a proper commercial cover (and hence the reduced price).
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Item Code: 0010165 Price: $6
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Israel - 'Minhelet Ha'am' (People's Administration) cover bearing 1 10-mils blue Negev JNF label (Bale #33), with Tel Aviv "Doar" overprint in violet and cancelled in Petach Tikva (in black; Bale pmk A/58). Unfortunately, overfranked at 10 Mils instead of the going rate of 7, and addressed to "H. Ahronson Stamp Shop" in Tel Aviv (i.e. not a genuine commercial cover) - hence the reduced price.
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Item Code: 0010160 Price: $6
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Israel - 'Minhelet Ha'am' (People's Administration) cover bearing 2 2-mils green Herzl JNF labels (Bale #5), with Tel Aviv "Doar" overprint in violet and cancelled in Ramat Gan (in black; Bale pmk A/64). Unfortunately, improperly franked at 4 Mils instead of the going rate of 7, and addressed to "H. Ahronson Stamp Shop" in Tel Aviv (i.e. not a genuine commercial cover) - hence the reduced price.
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Item Code: 0010159 Price: $6
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Israel - unused cover commemorating the 10th World Congress for "Maccabi", during Chanukka [28 Dec.] 1948 ("Year 2 for the State of Israel"), bearing 6 3-50 Mils (Bale #1-6) and 3 special stylized cancellation cachets.
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Item Code: 0010169 Price: $12
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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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Israel - commemorative cover celebrating the Nation Stamp Exhibition (Tabul) in Tel Aviv, 1949, bearing 2 20 Pruta (Bale #16), and two special Tabul cachets (May 1949). Not a proper commercial cover as it is overfranked; mailed by Uri Milshtein on Barzel Street to himself in Yafo.
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Item Code: 0010171 Price: $8
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Set of 13 Israeli first day covers, 1949-51. One is a first day cover for the 20 Pruta stamp of the Israeli flag (Bale 16 / Scott 15), postmarked in Haifa on 31 March, 1949 (a month earlier the War of Independence ended with the Treaty of Rhodes). Another FDC celebrates the opening of the post office in the city of Beit Shean, and is franked by the 5 Pruta stamp of the IDF insignia series (bearing the Air Force's emblem; Bale 18 / Scott 28).
A third cover celebrates Israel's Independence Day for 1950, with a stylized quotation from Rabbi Yehuda Halevy. The cover is franked by Bale 28 / Scott 32, although the cancellation mark celebrates 45 years for the city of Afikim, in which the cover was cancelled. A fourth registered FDC commemorates 75 years for the Universal Postal Union, 1950. A colorful first day cover mailed from Haifa to Zrenjanin/Stalinova, Yugoslavia on 28 March 1950. A fifth registered FDC celebrates Jewish New Years 1951-52 (16 Sept. 1951), mailed from Kiryat Amal to Zrenjanin/Stalinova, Yugoslavia. Franked with a set of 3 Bale 56-58 (56 and 57 tabbed) - issued 16 Sept. - and Bale 42, with Israeli airmail and registration label.
A sixth registered FDC celebrates Jewish New Years 1952-53 (3 Sept. 1952), mailed from Haifa to Zrenjanin, Yugoslavia. A seventh cover celebrates the opening of the Post Office in Kiryat Amal, 1 February 1951. Franked with Bale 44. An eighth is a beautiful cover from the first numismatic convention in Israel (30 March 1951) - in Haifa - with a special cancellation mark to commemorate the occasion. A ninth cover commemorates Israel's 3rd Independence Day (10 May 1951; "Journey of Achievements" - according to the Hebrew stamp); the cover bears the embossed emblem of the Israeli Post in the lower-left corner, and the cancellation mark is from a mobile post unit of the office.
The tenth cover commemorates Maritime Day (29 May 1951), with a special cancellation mark from Haifa. The eleventh cover celebrates 50 years of the Jewish National Fund (5 Aug. 1951; "A Nation and its Land" - printed in Hebrew on the cover). The twelfth cover celebrates the first use of Kiryat Anavim's own post cancellation mark (2 Sept.; founded in the 1920s, this was the first kibbutz settled in the Judean hills). The last cover celebrates the anniversary of the Hebrew University. All are in VF-EF condition with some aging colors and minor creases.
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Item Code: 0010071 Price: $25
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Israeli Government 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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45 Israeli first day covers, from 1951-1960, commemorating Independence Days, New Years, philatelic exhibitions, Jewish History, Tel Aviv, nuclear power, etc. Many stamp sets, most are tabbed, most with special cachets. All covers are in AU/UNC and very colorful.
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Item Code: 0010107 Price: $15
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3 Israeli airmail related FDC's: the first commemorates El-Al's first Lod - New York flight, 25 June 1950, and is franked by Bale #32-37; it bears a special FDC cachet and registery label. The second is a first day cover for the National Stamp Exhibition (Taba), 13 April 1952; franked with Bale #67 tabbed and bearing special cachet. The third FDC celebrates Swissair in Israel, 6 April 1954, and is franked by Bale #81, 83 and 84 - all tabbed. The last 2 covers are in AU; the first is slightly bent at the right edge and two stamps have some damage.
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Item Code: 0010106 Price: $30
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Israel - First day cover celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bank Leumi Le'Israel (formerly the Anglo-Palestine Bank), 1953. Franked with Bale 88 (tabbed) and bearing special cachet dated 4 days before release of the stamp. Includes special greeting card for the occasion from the bank management.
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Item Code: 0010109 Price: $8
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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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3 Israeli registered FDC's commemorating Israel's first jet flights to London, Paris and New York with El Al's 'Britannia' jet prop plane, 22 Dec. 1957. The New York cover is franked with Bale #143 tabbed with upper strip and Bale #144. The Paris cover is franked with Bale# 146 tabbed with upper strip, and Bale# 80. The London cover is franked with Bale #132 and Bale #145 tabbed. All three are registered from Lod Airport and bear special FDC cachets. All in EF condition, colorful and lovely.
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Item Code: 0010105 Price: $50
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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: $40
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Israel: envelope 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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Israel: envelope 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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Israel: remarkable 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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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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Italy - set of 3 Black-shirts Fund stamps, 1923. Mint, lightly-hinged, full gum. Watermarked.
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Item Code: 0010043 Price: $60
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Norway - corner block of 2 Norwegian 1 Ore (SG 301/38) olive-green colored stamps overprinted with a "V" (SG T49). Mint, unused, unhinged with original gum. Not water-marked. Has minor crease at bottom-right corner of block and a spot on the bottom stamp. In August 1941 the Germans overprinted certain Norwegian stamps with a "V" to celebrate what then appeared to be their final victory both over Russia and occupied Europe.
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Item Code: 0010045 Price: $8
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Poland - set of 14 mint 'Poczta Osiedli Polskich w Italii' stamps issued by the Polish Resettlement Corps in Italy, 1946. The Resettlement Corps was created by the British Government under the auspices of the War Relief Services (NCWC) in May 1946, and was tasked with processing the some-300,000 Polish soldiers in the western sphere of liberated Europe. Polish servicemen fought bravely in virtually every front of the war, on land, sea and air - in North Africa, the Eastern Front, Scandinavia, France, Italy and Britain. The soldiers could choose between emigrating from Poland, returning to [Communist] Poland, and resettling in the UK but signing a two-year contract to serve in the British Armed Forces. These stamps were printed by 'L.P.S. Off. Carte Valori' in Rome, in 1946, in various Polish denominations; they feature Polish motifs and certain issues are also overprinted in English, French or Polish with Roosevelt's "Honor the Four Freedoms".
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Item Code: 0010132 Price: $35
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