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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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
italian offices
turkish offices
TURKISH OFFICES (1) SAFED JAN 9 1893 to Jaffa; actually from Rosh Pina (office opened in 1910), vert fold (2) JERUSALEM 1896 to Germany
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.
AUSTRIAN OFFICES – JAFFA and JERUSALEM pmks on various postal receipts, 5 in all
TURKISH OFFICES – JERUSALEM NEGAIVE TELEGRAPH CANCEL on receipt dated 1895 RARE
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).
other items
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.”
world war one
Indian Forces
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.
british forces
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