collections

ISRAEL OFFICIAL MAIL 1949-2000 The covers are from various government agencies. There are various types of markings, styles of entires and usages – regular and registered.

1967-1990 ZAHAL (IDF) FISCAL REVENUES ON DOCUMENTS HISTORICAL COLLECTION ZAHAL (IDF) Military fiscal stamps for Judea, Samaria, Gaza and Sinai Includes notes and copies of articles.

COLLECTION OF 1967-1994 WEST BANK, SINAI, GAZA, GOLAN HEIGHTS ZAHAL/IDF military post; most comprehensive; Under Military, 12 volumes and extra material; Copies of articles, maps, summary charts, and postal notices are included, Wallach POSTAL HISTORY GUIDE TO THE TERRITORIES ADMINISTERED BY ISRAEL SINCE 1967VOLUME #1:JUDEA AND SAMARIA; About 110 items: Post Office openings, Under cover mail, Various usages, Daily postmark sheets VOLUME #2:JUDEA AND SAMARIA, About 116 items: Registration labels, Commercial mail, Revenues on documents, Daily postmark sheets, Under cover mail VOLUME #3:GAZA

THE WEST BANK OF JORDAN 1950-1967 (and beyond) This comprehensive collection has material for expansion of WALACH’S THE POSTAL HISTORY OF THE WEST BANK OF JORDAN 1948-1967 VOUME I (Hebron, Bethlehem, Jericho, Jerusalem, and Ramallah. It also has material for Volume II (that was never written): Nablus, Jenin, Tulkarem.

ISRAEL MOBILE POST OFFICES Includes about 375 regular and 200 registered covers; territories (military and civilian), obsolete lines, etc. in four volumes. Seems to be mostly 1950’s to 1990’s.

ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES (IDF/ZAHAL) 1950-1967 Military mail, also inter-office mail, regular and registered.

UN FORCES IN MIDDLE EAST ON DOCUMENTS & COVERS Includes (per note) UN Truce Supervision Organization, requests for pass permits to East Jerusalem (Jordan) and to West Jerusalem (Israel), US Embassy activity in East Jerusalem. All have UN Handstamps. About 25 items. Most items are pre-Six Day War. Expect file holes and folds.

PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY 1994-2002 VOLUME #1 About 100 items; Provisional Egyptian “bridge” type pmk on Jan 1, 1995 on covers from GAZA; Explanatory information regarding topic; Different types of postmarks; Undercover mail; Covers with mixed franking: Israel and Palestinian Authority; Mobile Post Office pieces; Pal Auth stamps on covers from West Bank; Israeli stamps on covers from West Bank; FRANCO (meters) – per note these are proofs; VOLUME #2: About 70 items (stamp sets counted as 1 item); STAMPS: Jericho locals: FILS ovpt on MILS; Explanatory information regarding these; Stamps above c

JUDAICA MISCELLANEOUS #2 About 25 items; About 25 items Flyer circa 1909 from a Rabbi regarding the matter of fight of Kollels in Jerusalem; Spanish Consulate in Jerusalem, World War One era; Halukkah receipts; Social Afternoon Tea held by German Hospital; Orthodox Jews against Zionist, circa 1920; Halukkah questions list; Alliance Israelite Universelle – document in French; German Jews under Nazis, 1938/39 school certificate; Invitation to memorial meeting for Miss Annie Landau and other related items; Wedding invitation to the Church of the Redeemer; Broadside: call to Jewish Community

JUDAICA MISCELLANEOUS #1 About 70 items. Card from Anglo Palestine Co. Ltd. Jerusalem; Jewish Relief Fund; Kauf-Besfastigung donation receipt; Various labels; Israel citizenship document; Donation or other receipt forms for sports, cancer, schools; BAOR army; Jerusalem mayor’s invitation to 1930 tea party; Radio cards; Engineers Membership certificate; Ottoman era medical receipt