PUBLIC AUCTION #114

Sale date: 
December 8, 2024

Ottoman Empire

Lot #: 1

BENI-SAAB 1917 PROVISIONAL 5 para stamp on Newspaper Wrapper, tied by bold Military cancel 46. Clean, hard to find item! Bale catalogue $2500. Photo. Estimated Value $1000

Start: $300 Sold For: $350
Lot #: 2

CAIFFA (NEGATIVE ) Cancel(Bale #736) on Telegram Receipt. Photo. Estimated Value $750

Start: $200 Sold For: $200
Lot #: 3

"LA VERITE/THE TRUTH/HEBREW JOURNAL/JERUSALEM", 2 IMPRINTED COVERS, the first with bold Turkish 1910 cancel ties 1pi stamp, the second (small tear at top) with 1pi Russian Levant tied by 1911 cancel. Photo. Estimated Value $300

Start: $125 Sold For: $225
Lot #: 4

JERUSALEM WARTE ("VIEWPOINT") Newspaer Cover to Jena, Germany bearing 4pa and 6pa Turkish pictorials, unusual Hungarian Censor markings in violet, red on white Censor label on reverse. Photo. Estimated Value $150

CVR MB
Start: $75
Lot #: 5

"HABAZELETH" HEBREW NEWSPAPER No.36, August 23,1901 with Turkish 1pa Revenue tied by printing and 5pa stamp tied by Jerusalem Bridge type cancel. Photo. Estimated Value $250

Start: $100 Sold For: $175
Lot #: 6

"HAZEWI" HEBREW NEWSPAPER No. 39, July 15, 1898 with Turkish 2pa Revenue tied by printing. Editor E. Ben Jehouda (Yehuda), founder of the modern Hebrew Language. Photo. Estimated Value $200

Start: $75 Sold For: $110
Lot #: 7

JERUSALEM 1917 POSTAL RECEIPTS, Lot of 3 different from German Post Office.Unusual and Very Scarce! Photo. Estimated Value $500

Start: $200 Sold For: $250
Lot #: 8

TURKISH REVENUES, 2pa Pair with "J.M." overprint (Jerusalem), Hard to Find! Photo. Estimated Value $125

Start: $50 Sold For: $125
Lot #: 9

TIBERIADE 1 (TIBERIAS) Cancel (Bale #838) ties Turkish Revenue on Telegram Receipt. Photo. Estimated Value $150

TLG MB
Start: $75
Lot #: 10

DOCUMENTS. 2 Different 1920 with A.D.P.O. OVERPRINTS on TURKISH REVENUES tied by pen cancels. Some stains. Photo. Estimated Value $100

DOC MB
Start: $50

AUSTRIAN OFFICES

Lot #: 11

ACADEMIE UNIVERSALLE / DES SCIENCES & DES ARTS INDUSRIELS…' Printed Cover with 10 pa on 3 Kr tied by JAFFA cds to Palermo, Sicily (b/s). Photo. Estimated Value $175.

CVR MB
Start: $75
Lot #: 12

"AUS JERUSALEM / OESTERR. POST" Violet H/S (Bale # 141) on UPU Post Card with pair 5c tied by JAFFA cds to Berlin (receival cds). Photo. Estimated Value $400.

Start: $150 Sold For: $150
Lot #: 13

"ISRAELIT. NATIONAL-KUCHE / OBERRABB. SAMUEL SALANT" Printed on 5c Entire tied by JERUSALEM cds to Germany. Photo, Estimated Value $150

STA MB
Start: $75
Lot #: 14

"RISCHON LE ZION / PAR POSTE AUTRICHIENNE" double circle w/ Magen David hand stamp in Blue (St. 708) ties RARE JNF R.L. Zion label (K#4, Roch. #y1) uneven at bottom) on 20 pa on 10 h Austrian Levant postal card with JERUSALEM OSTERR. POST / 31 XII 1904 (St.548) to Constantinople (w/o message as are all known PC's with this label, less than 10 known) Very light fold o/w VF. similar card sold at Christie's for more than $6000! Photo. Estimated Value $5000

PC MB
Start: $2,000
Lot #: 15

POSTAGE DUES: 1914 POSTAL CARD 1/2p from Cambridge, England to Jerusalem, taxed 1/2 Piaster upon arrival with AUSTRIAN Postage Due stamp (Bale #6) tied by Jerusalem cancel. Extremely scarce. VF except for slight vertical fold. Photo. Estimated Value $1000

Start: $500 Sold For: $500
Lot #: 16

VIENNA PICTURE POSTCARD 1901 sent to Jerusalem with 5h franking, with "Printed Matter" instruction, not accepted by Austrian Post, and for this reason a "T" tax marking was applied and missing postage collected on arrival in cash by "T5" manuscript blue crayon, with Jerusalem arrival postmark. Unusual. Nakri certificate. Photo. Estimated Value $750

Start: $350 Sold For: $350
Lot #: 17

GERMAN 5pfg POSTAL CARD, 1899, from Eisenbach to Jerusalem, short paid by 5pfg, for UPU rate, marked with bold "T" on arrival, and additional "T" and "5" in blue crayon. Austrian Jerusalem arrival cancel 6/1/00. Clean. Photo. Estimated Value $400

Start: $175 Sold For: $175
Lot #: 18

PICTURE POSTCARD from ATHENS GREECE to Jerusalem, 1910 with NO POSTAGE ATTACHED, so 20para Austrian Levant stamp attached to collect POSTAGE DUE of 10+10. Transit cancel Alexandria, plus Jerusalem Austrian receival cancel. Photo. Estimated Value $300

Start: $150 Sold For: $150
Lot #: 19

TWO POSTAL CARDS addressed to Jerusalem, one Austrian, one German, both short paid, with POSTAGE DUE MARKINGS, applied when received in Jerusalem (both with receival cancels), mixed condition, file holes, stains. Photo. Estimated Value $400

lot MB
Start: $175
Lot #: 20

FRENCH OFFICE: "GATES OF ZION" Hebrew/French Newspaper, front page from 1877, Jerusalem, issue #4, with 1/2 of French stamp attached at top (probably 5c green Bale #67), with JAFFA PEARL cancel, with additional clear JERUSALEM CROSS (blue), scarce forwarding cancel. Exhibit item. Photo. Estimated Value $1500

Start: $500 Sold For: $500