88th Holyland Postal Bid Sale

Sale date: 
August 13, 2017

SPECIAL SECTION

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Lot #: 557

MESHEK YAGUR tete-beche red Herzl, addressed to Kfar Ata, Mandate arrival pmks on back

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Start: $60 Buy
Lot #: 558

RAMATAYIM MH ties two 10 mil Jewish Brigade and 5 mil ZOA to regist cvr addressed to to Anglo-Palestine Bank Tel-Aviv; backstamped Mandate Tel-Aviv oval registered postmark 4 MY 48. Flap with faults

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Start: $40 Buy
Lot #: 559

TEL AVIV MANDATE3 MY 48 ties 10 mil map stamp (no ovpt) to locally addressed cvr; 2 tape stains

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Start: $25 Buy
Lot #: 560

RAMAT HAKOVESH 10 mil Diaspora I in green, addressed to Tel Aviv, mandate Tel Aviv pmk on back

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Start: $50 Buy
Lot #: 561

MINHELET HAAM COVERS, philatelic or philatelically inspired, some registered containing: Alonim, Bnei Braq, Bat Yam, Givat Brener, Givat Haim, Givatayim (3), Gedera (Reg), Herzlia, Hedera (3, 2 possibly NON-philatelic), Holon (2), Haifa (Reg), Meir Shfeya, Kfar Saba, Kfar Vitkin, Mabarot, Nahalal, Nahlay Yehuda (3), Haifa (4, 1 Reg), Jerusalem, Karkur, Tel-Aviv (3), Natanya (3, 1 Reg), Nes Ziona, Pardes Hanna, Petach Tikvah (2, 1 Reg), Rishon-Le-Zion (2, 1 Reg), Ramat-Gan (3, 1 Reg), , Ramatayim (2), Tel-Mond; 48 covers in all

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Start: $300 Buy
Lot #: 562

DOAR YERUSHALYIM yellow color proofs (5 10 & 50 values) of the accepted 1948 transition period Doar Jerusalem Jewish Agency essays (see Jerusalem and Safed Postal Services in the transition Period by Shimony, Rimon & Karpovsky, p. 104 & 416)

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Start: $400 Buy
Lot #: 563

JERUSALEM I 10 MIL SHIFTED TO RIGHT OVERPRINT ERROR, together with Jerusalem II 5 & 25 mil + Mandate 10 & 15 mil pictorial, cancelled Jerusalem Independence postmark touching the 10 mil pictorial, on a cutout

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Start: $30 Buy
Lot #: 564

Lot of Jerusalem I mint & used stamps (5x3, 10x3) and 6 cutouts postmarked "Doar Jerusalem, Minhelet HaAm, 12 & 13 MAY 1948, in singles, doubles, triplets, quadruples, sole and mixed (5mil x7, 10mil x4, 25mil x 2).

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Start: $40 Buy
Lot #: 565

JERUSALEM II (1) 3 upper half sheet of 10 with plate number of all 3 values, (2) singles 5mil x 2, 10mil x 3 and 25mil x 1.

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Start: $120 Buy
Lot #: 566

JERUSALEM II imperf horizontal strips of 3; the 25 is upper right corner margin

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Start: $100 Buy
Lot #: 567

LOT OF JERUSALEM II 11 May 1948 postmarked stamps: 5 mil (separated sheet of 20), 10 mil (complete sheet with "short Daled" plate error, but plate number portion of the sheet margin removed). [PH cropped in catalogue, full on web]

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Start: $100 Buy
Lot #: 568

JERUSALEM III, mint upper right corner

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Start: $40 Buy
Lot #: 569

JERUSALEM II, cancelled 11 MAY 1948: 5mil – vertical pair + horizontal lower marginal pair on cutout; 10 mil – 2 singles (one with upper margin) and a vertical pair together with the 5 mil on cutout; 25 mil irregular block of 4

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Start: $30 Buy
Lot #: 570

FIRST CONVOY FROM BESIEGED JERUSALEM Registered cover 10 MAY 1948, with 25 mil Jerusalem I stamp , sent by CARMEL ORIENTAL to the management in Rishon-Le-Zion, backstamped Tel-Aviv 18.6.1948 and Rishon-Le-Zion the same day. "Sign up for the National Bond (in Hebrew)"distorted rectangular cachet applied in Tel-Aviv

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Start: $100 Buy
Lot #: 571

FIRST CONVOY FROM BESIEGED JERUSALEM registered (day unclear) MAY 1948, 25 mil Jerusalem II cover from the Shaarey Tzedek hospital to Tel-Aviv, backstamped Tel-Aviv 18.6.1846. "Sign up for the National Bond" in Hebrew, distorted rectangular cachet applied in T-A. Vertical fold & soiling on back

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Start: $70 Buy
Lot #: 572

FIRST CONVOY FROM BESIEGED JERUSALEM registered 12 May 1948, 25 mil Jerusalem II cover to Bank Anglo-Palestina in Te -Aviv, backstamped in Tel Aviv 18.6.1948, "Sign up for the National Bond" in Hebrew distorted rectangular cachet applied in T-A.

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Start: $100 Buy
Lot #: 573

SECOND CONVOY FROM BESIEGED JERUSALEM Registered 13 May 1948, Vertical top marginal pair of 10 mil Jerusalem II and lower marginal 5 mil Jerusalem II, to Bank Anglo-Palestina, Tel-Aviv, backstamped 21.6.1948

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Start: $80 Buy
Lot #: 574

AFTER SECOND CONVOY FROM BESIEGED JERUSALEM Registered 25 JUN 1948 Jerusalem II 25 mil sent by Torczyner (the famous Hebrew University Professor that changed later his name to TOR-SINAI) to Rehovot, backstamped Tel-Aviv 30.6.48 and Rehovot 1.7.48.  

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Start: $100 Buy
Lot #: 575

Jerusalem I, 25 mil lower left marginal corner stamp, Minhelet HaAm Jerusalem local Jerusalem cover

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Start: $30 Buy
Lot #: 576

JERUSALEM MH PMK ties Jerusalem I 10 mil to cvr addressed Rishon Le Zion, straight line 12 MAY 48, probably carried by First Convoy. Part of flap missing

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Start: $40 Buy