PUBLIC AUCTION #117

Sale date: 
December 7, 2025

OTTOMAN EMPIRE FORCES

Lot #: 721

CUTOUT FROM POSTAL DOCUMENT with All Arabic very clear cancel, BEER SHEVA 2 (Gladstone PM3) . Hard to find. Photo. Estimated Value $200

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Lot #: 722

DOCUMENT January 1917 RECEIPTS FOR REGISTERED LETTERS, postmarked with BOTH "BEER SHEVA 2" and the bilingual Beer Sheva postmarks. Reverse side 10 postage stamps cancelled "BEER SHEVA 2". The only known Beer Sheva receipt form with both postmarks! Very high catalogue value. Photo. Estimated Value $750.

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Start: $250
Lot #: 723

COMPLETE SHEET OF 5 REGISTRATION RECEIPTS, with 9 one Piaster stamps tied with three ALL ARABIC BEER SHEVA 2 CANCELS (Collins #PM3). Photo. Estimated Value $750

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Start: $250
Lot #: 724

OFFICAL POSTCARD for the Inauguration of the BBER SHEVA--AUJA EL HAFIR RAILWAY LINE, showing the planned extension to Kusseima. (only 2 such postcards are known, the other with filing holes). Front of postcard cancelled May 26, 1916 at HAFIR during the inauguration ceremonies, proving it is indeed AUJA-EL-KAFIR. Photo. Estimated Value $1000

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Start: $400
Lot #: 725

JANUARY 1915 POSTAL CARD 10 para (+10 para stamp) from Damascus to a German Lieutenant of the German Military force in AUJAH EL HAFIR. Cover addressed "Hafir El Aujeh--Bir es Seba' Sud (South) Palestina", since Beer Sheva was the center housing the headquarters of the Turkish--German military forces. Postcard censored in Beer Sheva, and oval "Examined in Beer Sheva" black cachet applied. Less than 4 are known as such. Extremely scarce. Photo. Estimated Value $750.

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Start: $350
Lot #: 726

HAFIR CANCELLATIONS 3x on October 1916 COVER to Damascus (Deutsche Konsulat) with return address "Hafir El-Aujeh--Bir es Seba, Sud (South) Palestina". Scarce, clean. Photo. Estimated Value $600

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Start: $300
Lot #: 727

PIECE with 1916 HAFIR CANCEL, Bale #854, high catalogue value. Photo. Estimated Value $400

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Start: $150
Lot #: 728

OCT. 1917 COVER FROM ISTANBUL, addressed to an officer in the 3rd Army Division stationed along the Gaza/Tel Sheria/Beer Sheva front at that time. On arrival cancelled with Turkish Field Post Office 22 receiving cancel (light) in the unrecorded purple color. The British attacked this front on October 26, and broke through the on October 31 in Beer Sheva, and overran the Turkish positions after a week long battle. Photo. Estimated Value $500

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Start: $250
Lot #: 729

FPO #22 CANCEL (3rd Division Palestine) on COVER, 1917, receival cancel on front, with 1pia., 20 para stamps tied to cover FPO cancel (Bale #M33). Scarce. Photo. Estimated Value $1000

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Start: $400
Lot #: 730

PICTURE POSTCARD with stamp on front cancelled OTTOMAN FIELD POST OFFICE, #24, August 23, 1914, located south of JAFFA (Tel Aviv). Clean and unusual. Clean and unusual. Photo. Estimated Value $500

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Start: $200
Lot #: 731

SHEET OF REGISTRATION RECIPTS, with 68 stamps tied by 12 BEER SHEVA Negative cancels, unusual. Very high catalogue value. Photo. Estimated Value $750

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Start: $350
Lot #: 732

COVER from the FOURTH ARMY addressed to Germany, April 1916, with Damascus transit cancels front and back. . Unit clear negative handstamp in upper right-hand corner on cover front. Censored. Photo. Estimated Value $500

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GERMAN MILITARY MISSION IN BER SHEVA, 1915-1917

Lot #: 733

FOLDED LETTER SHEET FEB. 1916 cancel GERMAN FELDPOST/13 addressed to Palestina/Egyppo with FPO 44 Turkish cancels (HQ 7th Army) Bale MP16, censored. Most unusual. Photo. Estimated Value $750

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Start: $400
Lot #: 734

FIELD HOSPITAL 212 "PASCHA" located on May 1916 in Beer Sheva, prior to having the German Military Mission had a postmark in Beer Sheva. The cover was therefore carried by courier to Constantinople and postmarked there on May 4, 1916. Censors front and back. Photo. Estimated Value $500

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Lot #: 735

COUIER LETTER FROM BEER SHEVA, the earliest known German Military Mission letter from Beer Sheva in which the location of writing is specified. May 29, 1916 Postcard written in Beer Sheba by "Untffz Obang, m.g.k. 605, d. marine postboro Berlin C.2'' rectangular boxed unit cachet "M.G.k. 606" (Machine Gewehr Kompany=Machine Gun Company) and S.B. (Soldaten Brief=Soldiers Mail) Brief Stempil). Sent by courier to Aleppo, there postmarked June 3, 1916 by the "German Fieldpost Military Mission Aleppom and sent to Berlin, Germany. Photo. Estimated Value $600

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Lot #: 736

PICTURE POSTCARD cancelled June 25, 1916 (five days after the introduction of the "1 Expeditionskorps" postmark) in Beer Sheva, violet box handstamp "Feldlazarett 21 "Pascha"", addressed to Berlin. Photo. Estimated Value $275

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Start: $125
Lot #: 737

FELDPOSTKARTE Military Postcard written on the Sinai Peninsula, June 28, 1916, postmarked in Beer Sheva, "Field Post, Mil. Mission, 1st Expedition Corp, June 29, 1916" (8th day after opening) with Unique unrecorded bi-lingual unit cachet of the field ;post office. Photo. Estimated Value $500

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Start: $225
Lot #: 738

PICTURE POSTCARD, June 30, 1916 from soldier of the Machine Gun Company 605 (violet unit cachet in framed rectangle), stationed in Beer Sheva, sent to Germany. Photo. Estimated Value $275

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Lot #: 739

JULY 1, 1916 PICTURE POSTCARD from soldier in the "Machine Gun Company, 608" (violet cachet box, from Beer Sheva to Stuttgart, Germany. Clean. Photo. Estimated Value $275

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Lot #: 740

1st EXPEDITIONSKORPS FELDPOST cancel of July 5, 1906, violet Austrian unit handstamp "Kuk Gebrigshaubitzdivision v.Marno", addressed to Zagreb. Clean. Photo. Estimated Value $350

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Start: $175