PUBLIC AUCTION #111

Sale date: 
May 7, 2023

POSTAL HISTORY

Lot #: 101

ANGLO PALESTINE BANK COVERS (2) REGISTERED, Tel Aviv 1927 to U.S.,and Jerusalem 1930 to Czechoslovakia, each franked with 2x13m APC PERFIN PICTORIAL STAMPS. According to Bale the rate should be 13m Registered and 15m Postage, unless they were receiving a special rate! Clean. Photo. Estimated Value $125

Start: $60
Lot #: 102

1932 REGISTERED COVER FROM U.S. to BETHLEHEM, PALESTINE, 2c Imprinted envelope with (12 added stamps) 23c Uprated (total 25c) with fee paid for "Return Receipt". Transit and receival backstamps.Vertical fold. Photo. Estimated Value $100

Start: $50
Lot #: 103

TEL AVIV REGISTERED COVER, 1937, addressed to Pardess Hanna, with INSURANCE. 31 Mils Pictorial postage, Triple weight (11m), Insurance (7m) and Registration (13m). Clean. Photo. Estimated Value $150

Start: $75 Sold For: $90
Lot #: 104

APRIL 1941 REGISTERED COVER, HAIFA to NEW YORK, High franking with 635m (3x200m, 1x20m, 1x10m, 1x5m) with missing one stamp that fell off. Still unusual. Censored. Photo. Estimated Value $150

Start: $75 Sold For: $100
Lot #: 105

1942 COVER FROM TEL AVIV to HAIFA (Hadar HaCarmel) Tel Aviv cancel tieing 10m MISCUT COIL STAMP to cover. Haifa receival cancel same day Feb. 6. Clean. Photo. Estimated Value $150

Start: $75
Lot #: 106

REGISTERED MOAZ HAIM (handwritten label) 1947 Cove, addressed to HAIFA, 25m correct rate, tied by 5 Maoz Haim cancels. Transit and receival cancels including Affula. Scarce. Photo. Estimated Value $150.

Start: $75
Lot #: 107

PALESTINE POSTS "ADVICE OF DELIVERY" (p.t. 506), LARGE FORM, Hebrew/English text, 1921, 1pia. 3m London overprint stamps tied by Jaffa Registered cancels. Bale $650 (#T.AD2.2) File Holes. Scarce. Photo. Estimated Value $400

Start: $175
Lot #: 108

EGGED BUS COVERS, 3 Different including May 2, 1948 from Tel Aviv (General Council of Jewish Communities) to MIGDAL. Interesting lot, mixed condition. Photo. Estimated Value $250

Start: $125

ZEPPELIN/AIRMAIL COVERS

Lot #: 109

LZ127 ZEPPELIN ORIENT FLIGHT, MAIL DROP AT TEL AVIV, Picture postcard (Zeppelin LZ127) in one mail bag dropped at TEL AVIV, with red private cancel (on board) and additional violet handstamp. Palestine 3m stamp on front cancellled March 27, 1929. Very clean and scarce. Catalogue value $1500. Photo. Estimated Value $1000

Start: $400 Sold For: $850
Lot #: 110

AUSTRIA ZEPP FLIGHT TO JAFFA, Austrian stamps cancelled Vienna March 29 with JAFFA backstamp March 27. Rare metal Orientflight hanstamp. Photo. Estimated Value $700

Start: $250 Sold For: $325
Lot #: 111

LZ127 MAIL DROP AT ER RAMLE, March 26, forwarded to Chicago, with German airmail stamp (Friedrichshafen Luftpostemple cancel) and 7m Palestine stamp, tied by Er Ramle March 26 cancel. Unusual. Photo. Estimated Value $300

Start: $125 Sold For: $550
Lot #: 112

LZ127 MAIL DROP AT ER RAMLE, March 26, addressed to Germany, with German airmail stamp (Friedrichshafen Luftpostemple cancel) and 7m Palestine stamp, tied by Er Ramle March 26 cancel. Er Ramle backstamps. Unusual. Photo. Estimated Value $300

Start: $125 Sold For: $400
Lot #: 113

LZ127 DANZIG DISPATCH March 21, COVER addressed to JERUSSALEM, with receival MARCH 28 on back. Only 120 covers from Dazig were carried. Photo. Estimated Value $350

Start: $150 Sold For: $300
Lot #: 114

AUSTRIA ZEPP FLIGHT LZ127. Austria was a "Contracting State"and mail could be posted there for carriage by the GRAF ZEPPELIN. This cover is an example of such mail with the rare steel version o f the ORIENTFAHRT cachet. It was dropped at ER RAMLE Palestine, and addressed to Turkey, with April 4 STAMBOUL receival cancel. (See Blau Zeppelin book page 63). Photo. Estimated Value $300

Start: $125 Sold For: $225
Lot #: 115

AUSTRIAN FLIGHT, March 22 addressed to HAIFA, with receival backstamp March 28. Very scarce as few such covers are known. Photo. Estimated Value $500

Start: $225
Lot #: 116

ZEPPELIN MITTRELMEERFAHRT 1929 flight from Germany, April 22, 1929, addressed to TEL AVIV, 5x20pf Airmail stamps on picture postcard. No receival cancel. Photo. Estimated Value $200

Start: $100 Sold For: $150
Lot #: 117

ZEPPELIN MITTRELMEERFAHRT 1929 FLIGHT, from Germany, drop SEVILLA (Backstamp) and then by ship to PALESITNE (Jerusalem). On arrival in Palestine handstamp "ADDRESSEE INSUFFICIENT" ADDED. Photo. Estimated Value $250

Start: $125 Sold For: $175
Lot #: 118

EGYPT FLIGHT 1931, Minister of Communications cover, 100m Egyptian Zeppelin Airmail stamp, ted to cover by SUEZ April 10, 1931 cancels. Addressed to Director General of the Egyptian Postal Service, in Jerusalem. Receival cancel April 13. "One of a kind"!. Photo. Estimated Value $2000

Start: $750 Sold For: $8,000
Lot #: 119

EGYPT FLIGHT 1931, addressed to Director of the Bank of Rome, Jerusalem, franked with Egyptian Zeppelin stamp, 100m, tied to cover by Alexandria Zeppelin cancel. Jerusalem machine cancel receival April 13. Clean, unusual. Photo. Estimated Value $500

Start: $200 Sold For: $275
Lot #: 120

BANK D'ORIENT COVER, addressed to Jerusalem, on EGYPT ZEPPELIN FLIGHT, 2x100m Egyptian Zeppelin stamps tied to cover with Alexandria Zepp cancels. Jerusalem machine receival cancel April 13 on back. Photo. Estimated Value $300

Start: $125 Sold For: $225