PUBLIC AUCTION #112

Sale date: 
October 22, 2023

Unusual Destinations Incoming To Palestine

Lot #: 121

VATICAN PICTURE POSTCARD 1938, Addressed to Tel Aviv, unusual, Photo. Estimted Value $75

Start: $40 Sold For: $40

Zeppelin Flights

Lot #: 122

PICTURE POSTCARDS (2) one of Count Von Zeppelin with date of death printed on front. Card postally used May 1937 from New York to Los Angeles; second card, large size of aerial view ofJerusalem from Zepp. Interesting.Photo. Estimated Value $150.

Start: $60
Lot #: 123

PICTURE POSTCARD from VIENNA, addressed to HAIFA, Austrian Airmail stamps tied to card. Photo. Estimated Value $100

Start: $50
Lot #: 124

AUSTRIAN FLIGHT COVER, March 22, addressed to Haifa with receival backstamp March 28, Very scarce as few such covers to Haifa are known. Photo. Estimated Value $400

Start: $250
Lot #: 125

GERMAN ZEPP COVER addressed to Port Said, with 2x1mk Airmail stamps, tied by March 24 cancels. Port Said receival backstamp. Clean. Photo. Estiated Value $150

Start: $70 Sold For: $70
Lot #: 126

GERMAN ZEPP COVER addressed to HAIFA, March 24 cancel, with ER RAMLE receival backstamp. Upper left hand corner has private cachet (37mm) used on board available in the lounge of the airship! Scarce. Photo. Estimated Value $400

Start: $200 Sold For: $200
Lot #: 127

GERMAN ZEPP COVER, March 27, addressed to Athens, but on the way back from Palestine, as they are over Athens, because of bad weather, it was forced to turn back. Two bags of mail were dropped...one was found by a shephard two days later and brought to the main post office, backstamped there. The other was never found and contained all the mail of the passengers and crew. This cover was one of the only 480 found from philatelist, P. Drossos. Horizontal fold. Photo. Estimated Value $300

Start: $125 Sold For: $125
Lot #: 128

ZEPP COVER from Germay to Washington DC , March 24, sent by stamp dealer Anton Huber, clean. Photo. Estimated Value $75

Start: $40 Sold For: $40
Lot #: 129

ZEPP POSTCARD mailed from Germany March 24, with 1mk Airmail stamp, addressed to "German General Consul, Jerusalem", with clear JERUSALEM March 27 clear receival cancel on back, March 27. Photol Estimated Value $250

Start: $125 Sold For: $200
Lot #: 130

PICTURE POSTCARD OF ZEPP IN HANGER, mailed from ER RAMLE PALESTINE to Stuttgart, March 26 with 3x2m Palestine stamps tied by Er Ramle March 26 cancels, and additional 1mk German Airmail stamp. Very nice. Photo. Estimated Value $500

Start: $250
Lot #: 131

EGYPT FLIGHTS: Unusual Cover cancelled CAIRO wth special Zeppelin cancel 2x tieing100m Egyptian Zepp stamp to cover addressed in Arabic to "Your Honor Ibrahim Mustafa Al-Souri, DIRECTOR OF USER MANAGEMENT, ADMINISTRATOR AT EGYPTIAN POST OFFICE, JERUSALEM". Jerusalem receival cancel on front April 13, 1931. Slight vertical bend but still very scarce. (See lot #118 in our last sale, #111, sold for $8000). Photo. Estimated Value $2000

Start: $750 Sold For: $230
Lot #: 132

PICTURE POSTCARD (ALEXANDRIA) addreseed to Mohamed Bay Farid, Director of the Egyptian Postal Service JERUSALEM. 50m Zepp stamp tied to postcard by special Alexandria cancel. Very clean. Photo. Estimated Value $300

Start: $150 Sold For: $475
Lot #: 133

EGYPTIAN ZEPP COVER, addressed to TIBERIAS, Palestine, with 2x special PORT SAID cancels tieing 2x50m Zepp stamps to cover. Tiberias April 13 receival backstamp. Most unusual usage. Clean. Photo. Estimated Value $2000.

Start: $500 Sold For: $800
Lot #: 134

EGYPTIAN ZEPP COVER, addressed to TEL AVIV, April 11 cancels CAIRO, 3x tieing 50m + 100m Zepp stamps to cover.Sslighly rough condition (horizontal fold, r/h coner loose, tape stains, addressee name crossed out), very scarce though with TEL AVIV, APRIL 20 recival back stmp. Photo. Estimated Vlaue $750

Start: $300 Sold For: $300
Lot #: 135

ZEPP PICTURE POSTCARD, Philatelic unaddressed, with 50m Zepp stamp tied by Cairo cancel, with additional all the additional four cancel including the scarce PORT SAID and SUEZ cancels. Pretty. Photo. Estimated Value $300

Start: $125 Sold For: $125
Lot #: 136

COVER COTOUT with 2x 100m Zepp stamps tied to piece by 2x SUEZ cancels. Very scarce as of now only 7 covers and 8 staps on pieces on known with the "SUEZ" cancels. Scarce. Photo. Estimated Value $800-$100

Start: $350 Sold For: $350
Lot #: 137

REGISTERED JERUSALEM PALESTINE ZEPP FLIGHT TO BRAZIL, MAY 28, 1935 with 23m Palestine stamps (15m,, 6m, 2m) tied by 2x JERUSALEM cancels, ADDRESSED TO Recife-Pernambuco, with receival cancel July 12, 1935 on back. Scarce as only 10 covers were flown from Palestine. Photo. Estimated Value $1500

Start: $750 Sold For: $1,500

Palestine Cancels

Lot #: 138

1929 "VISIT THE PALESTINE & NEAR EAST EXHIBITION" clear March 4 TEL AVIV machine cancel on cover addressed to Haifa. Letter enclosed. Photo. Estimated Value $150

Start: $75
Lot #: 139

1934 PRINTED MATTTER COVER, to U.S. WITH 3m Pictorial stamp tied by scarce cancel "VSIT THE ARAB FAIR", Glassman catalogue rated "F". Horizontal fold, back flap missing. Photo. Estimated Value $100

Start: $50
Lot #: 140

1934 LEVANT FAIR red caheted cover addressed to Switzerland, with 15m Red TEL AVIV Meter cancel used at the Levant Fair. Early usage. Scarce. Photo. Estimated Value $200

Start: $100 Sold For: $100