postal history

REDIRECTED TO ISRAEL 1961 cover sent from Switzerland to London, arrived seriously damaged, bearing an oblong cancel on back stating it was damaged on route; fragile

FIRST FLIGHT 8 JULY 1933 India to Israel; then re-addressed to Liverpool England, various backstamps & mss message [back on WEB]

CRASH MAIL from Tel Aviv to France

REGISTRATION LABELS computer sheetlet with 9 labels, top 3 missing black numbers and bar codes

THE GOOD FENCE The Good Fence was a term that referred to Israel's mountainous 80-mile northern border with Lebanon during the period following the 1978 South Lebanon conflict (during Lebanese Civil War2228.00. 24 covers, mostly philatelic – but 1 or 2 commercial usages; 2 photos

CENSORED MAIL 12 covers – all to same address, various dates & stamps; note: one has censor handstamp instead of resealing tape

RETURN TO SENDER 3 covers marked RETURN (1) USSR (2) Poland (3) USSR – various reasons

UNITED NATIONS covers to various countries from troops that were part of the UN Emergency Forces. These could have been in the Sinai, Lebanon, or elsewhere; incl 2 POW letters; about 50 items, appears to be mostly commercial usages

ELECTRONIC CODING AND SORTING 16-page exhibit (needs to be remounted) depicting various electronic markings on covers; these were used in automatic sorting; a mixture of preliminary trial covers and philatelic items

NEW YEARS MAILINGS These are small 110 x 70 mm envelopes that were used to send New Years cards. Postmarks are from the 1950’s and 1960’s, a few have the Holiday triangle pmks. Over 110 covers