92nd Holyland Postal Bid Sale

Sale date: 
April 30, 2019

ottoman period

french offices

Lot #: 80

FRENCH OFFICES 3 POSTAL CARDS. (1) 1908 mailed from Nancy Station to the Hebrew Gymnasia in Jaffa; JAFFA OSTERR. POST 27 V 8 arrival omk. (2) Postal card mailed from Alexandria, Egypt to Dr. Arthur Ruppin (1876-1943), Zionist leader and thinker. (3) Postal card mailed to the Director of the Hebrew High School in Jaffa; cancelled in France but carried by Austrian post. All have filing holes over imprints and cancels.

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Start: $50 Buy

German Offices

Lot #: 81

GERMAN OFFICES: JAFFA DEUTSCHE POST (Steichle #221) dated 20.12.05 3 pmks tie 20 para and 10 para ovpt stamps to 10 para ovpt entire, AUS JERUSALEM DEUTSCHE POST hstmp; addressed to Germany; backstamp, flap missing

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Start: $80 Sold For: $80

italian offices

Lot #: 82

ITALIAN OFFICE 2 different postal cards, one with Gerusalemme ovpt (and backstamp from Budapest)

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Start: $45 Buy

turkish offices

Lot #: 83

TURKISH OFFICE: CAIFFA (ARRIVAL) 8/20/914 on back of cvr mailed from Beyrouth (Collins PM 11?)

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Start: $55 Buy
Lot #: 84

TURKISH MAIL JAFFA CANCELS on Turkish Stamps: (8 singles, I pair, 1 block of 4)

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Start: $40 Buy
Lot #: 85

TURKISH MAIL-JERUSALEM CANCELS on Turkish Stamps, 8 singles, 1 block of 4 with Quart Israelite cancel

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Start: $60 Buy
Lot #: 86

TURKISH OFFICES (1) SAFED JAN 9 1893 to Jaffa; actually from Rosh Pina (office opened in 1910), vert fold (2) JERUSALEM 1896 to Germany

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Start: $50 Sold For: $125
Lot #: 87

TURKISH OFFICE: JERUSALEM 29/4/1910 ties 10 para stamp to ppc (Tower of David), addressed to Italy (Collins PM 14?)

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Start: $35 Buy
Lot #: 88

TURKISH OFFICE – NASRE 8/4/1911 pmk ties four 5 mil stamps to ppc addressed to France; strip of 4 10 mil with similar pmk

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Start: $55 Buy
Lot #: 89

TURKISH OFFICES Postal card pmk SAFED 5 1898 (in blue green); from Mischmar Hayarden to “Professor” David Edlovitch residing in Rishon Le Zion. Contents about a visit of E. Ben-Yehuda, the “father” of modern Hebrew. Fine with filing hole not affecting the text.

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Start: $60 Sold For: $400
Lot #: 90

AUSTRIAN OFFICES – JAFFA and JERUSALEM pmks on various postal receipts, 5 in all

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Start: $80 Sold For: $80
Lot #: 91

TURKISH OFFICE: pmks (indistinct) ties telegraph stamps to pieces

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Start: $55 Buy
Lot #: 92

TURKISH OFFICES – JERUSALEM NEGAIVE TELEGRAPH CANCEL on receipt dated 1895 RARE

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Start: $180 Sold For: $180
Lot #: 93

TURKISH MAIL- CANCELS ON TURKISH STAMPS: Acre (4), Djenine Block of 4), Haifa (4, pair), Nablus ( 3,1 pair), Nazareth (2, 1 pair), Safed (1).

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Start: $40 Sold For: $60

other items

Lot #: 94

MAIL BETWEEN USA AND PALESTINE Three covers relating to Selah Merrill (1837-1909), American Counsel in Jerusalem. (1) Cover sent to Merrill from Andover, MA, in 1884 with Constantinople transit and Jerusalem arrival cancels. (2) Cover sent to Merrill in 1885 with Boston and Alexandria transit pmks, and Jerusalem arrival cancels. (3) Cover sent by Merrill in 1886from Jerusalem to Edward Taylor, relative of his wife. Transit postmarks from Alexandria, Paris, Boston. Reverse shows cancel of “United States Consulate in Jerusalem.”

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Start: $75 Sold For: $75
Lot #: 95

FROM RUSSIA money letter to Jerusalem;

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Start: $60 Buy
Lot #: 96

RUSSIAN MONEY LETTER AND RECEIPT

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Start: $100 Buy

world war one

Indian Forces

Lot #: 97

FPO 79 15 FE 21 4 strikes individually tie 2 Anna, 4 Anna, 3 pies and 1 R stamps to cvr addressed to Jerusalem; per mss this was at Bir Salem.

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Start: $60 Sold For: $65

british forces

Lot #: 98

ARMY POST OFFICE SZ 44 various usages as to dates, stamps, handstamps, censoring etc. 5 ppc and 8 covers

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Start: $140 Buy
Lot #: 99

BRITISH FORCES IN WORLD WAR ONE various usages: post marks (APO SZ numbers), stamps, other markings; over 60 post cards or covers and many pieces; (note: not all may have been in Palestine but in Egypt); condition varies, but generally fine or better; most mounted on pages with brief descriptions – arranged by APO SZ; some with 2 items

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Start: $2,000 Buy