106TH Holyland Postal Bid Sale

Sale date: 
September 17, 2025

british mandate

Postal Stationery

Lot #: 41

MANDATE REGISTERED ENTIRE RE-15 mint, with wrapping band

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Lot #: 42

MANDATE REGISTERED ENTIRES (1) RE-17 mint, 2 copies (2) RE 19C (3) RE 20

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Start: $35 Buy

Postal History, crash mail, ship mail, routes

Lot #: 43

EARLY CENSORSHIP Covers to within or from Palestine during the early British Mandate; censored in one form or another, described and mounted on pages. Dated 1918 thru circa 1945. Various handstamps and/or labels are seen. Includes 4 covers with the BLUES with SZ postmarks, and a few stampless from before 1919. 15 covers in all

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Lot #: 44

WORLD WAR TWO ERA CENSORSHIP Covers to within or from Palestine; censored in one form or another, somewhat described and mounted on pages. Dated circa 1939 thru circa 1945. Various handstamps and/or labels are seen. Over 40 covers

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Lot #: 45

ORIENT ZEPPELIN FLIGHT LS 127 pmkd FRIEDRICHSHAFEN 24 MAR 1929. Addressed to Haifa, backstamped ER RAMLA 28 MR 29

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Lot #: 45A

ORIENT ZEPPELIN FLIGHT LS 127 pmkd LUFTSCHIFF GRAF ZEPPELIN 28 MAR 1929 addressed to ER RAMLE POSTE RESTANTE, ER RAMLA 'C' 26 MR 29 handstamp [back on web]

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Lot #: 45B

ORIENT ZEPPELIN FLIGHT LS 127 pmkd LUFTSCHIFF GRAF ZEPPELIN 24 MAR 1929 addressed to Duselberg Germany; ER RAMLA 'C' 26 MR 29 handstamp [back on web]

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Lot #: 45C

ORIENT ZEPPELIN FLIGHT LS 127 pmkd LUFTSCHIFF GRAF ZEPPELIN 26 MAR 1929 addressed to Tel Aviv; ER RAMLA 'C' 26 MR 29 handstamp [back on web]

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Lot #: 45D

ORIENT ZEPPELIN FLIGHT LS 127 pmkd LUFTSCHIFF GRAF ZEPPELIN 26 MAR 1929 addressed to Jaffa; [back on web]

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covers

Lot #: 46

FROM FRANCE – 15/11/1939 airmail, Palestine censor hstmp on back Beirut Lebanon slogan pmk of 18/XI/39 “Visit Historic Lebanon” and Marseilles hstmp of 15/XI/1939; file holes at bottom

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Lot #: 47

FROM ROMANIA 30 AUG 33; Registered, bkstmp PARDESS HANA B 8 SEP 33 (Dorfman #1)

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Lot #: 48

TEL AVIV 21 FE 41 ties 5 20 & 100 pictorial to censored air mail cvr addressed to USA, typed CLIPPER MAIL // ENGLISH WRITTEN; 125 mils is the air rate to India, the Hong Kong, the Philippines, ,and finally to the USA

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Lot #: 49

BRITISH MANDATE OF PALESTINE over 35 commercial covers, some sent abroad, some with non-pictorials, registered or censored; nice selection

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world war two

world war two

Lot #: 52

WAR ORGANISATION OF THE BRITISH RED CROSS hstmp on cvr mailed from Jerusalem 9 OCT 1942, addressed to Red Cross in Switzerland; Nazi label and hstmp on back, very light Palestine censor on front; small fault at top right

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Lot #: 53

HUNGARIAN RED CROSS dated Budapest May 1943, addressed to Palestine, note censor cu out

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Lot #: 54

WAR ORGANIZATION OF THE BRITISH RED CROSS AND ORDER OF ST. JOHN FORM dated Oct 20, 1943, addressed to Budapest Hungary, asking for information about a Paul Bondy.

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Lot #: 55

FIELD POST OFFICE 642 OF 9 JA 45 on cvr with mss ‘OAS / HEBREW”, red PASSED BY CENSOR and DEPUTY CHIEF FIELD CENSOR hstmp, addressed to Jerusalem; per note JEWISH BRIGADE GROUP ITALY

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Lot #: 56

LODZ - LODSCH - LITZMANNSTADT (1915 - 1946) Fascinating collection of 13 cards and covers which document and illustrate some of the history and fate of one of Poland's largest cities and site of its notorious Ghetto during the Nazi occupation. Included are: (1) registered cover during World War One, bearing German overprinted stamps (Russisch-Polen), processed by the German Censorship office in Posen; also two postal cards with similar ovpt on indicia & marking (2) three pre-World War Two mail (pmkd 1931, 1937, and 1939), highlighted by an official preprinted envelope Deutsches Konsulat Lodz, postmarked Berlin, 27.3.37, stamped "free consular mail" "via Foreign Office" (addressed to organization responsible for German Military Grave maintenance) [note: 1931 depicts a souvenir medal; 1939 is only front of cover] (3) two unaddressed German Postal Stationery cards, postmarked with the now Germanized town name LODSCH 7.1.1940 and 31.3.1940, and different commemorative cancels; (4) three unaddressed cards, now with the renamed LITZMANNSTADT cancels 19.3.41., 20.4.41., 13.6.42., all with special cancels, and a used portion of a postal receipt postmarked "Zweigpostamt Struham - Litzmannstadt, 28 Juni 1941 (5) postwar registered airmail, cancelled LODZ Nov 46., addressed to Galveston, Texas, backstamped Washington, D.C., Nov 25, 1946- Air Mail Field Tour 1, and Galveston, Tex. Nov 26, 1946. (6), copies of pages 110 to 137 from 1964 RUCH specialized catalog (in Polish), dealing with Litzmannstadt Ghetto, plus reprint of STAMPS July 16, 1960, article "How Lodz Became Litzmannstadt " by Edward Nowak, Sr.

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Lot #: 57

JEWISH AGENCY COMMISSION FOR THE JEWS IN CONQUERED EUROPE 8 reports (stenciled) in Hebrew depicting dated 9/44, 4/45 8/45, 11/45, 12/45 (2 different) 6/46, 11/46, 2/47, per vendor note: real evidence from Warsaw. Kovno, Grodno and more; per vendor note shows information known in Palestine of late stages of Holocaust

Start: $70 Buy
Lot #: 58

Palestine Posts Telegraphs & Telephones form wired from ANDIJAN, Uzbekistan in 1942: "MEDA DIED WE ARE WELL ... CABLE SOVIET UNION, UZBEKISTAN, ANDIJAN, POSTE REST ANTE". Unfortunately, the poor Refugee group did not make their escapade to South America, yet they managed to escape as far as to Uzbekistan in central Asia (contiguous with Afghanistan). Meda Spatz, died, and even there they did not find a safe steady shelter as they used Paste Restante for reply as their address. Delivered "VIA CABLE & WIRELESS" with oval Tel Aviv Registered pm or 11.MY.42 as arrival pmk.

Start: $75 Buy