Palestine
Iraq 50 fils blue on Airmail envelope cancelled with bi-lingual d/r bridged cds Baghdad 11 March 1943; MS 'Written in English'; boxed bi-lingual Iraq censor h/s tying Arabic text Censor tape; no b/s but a scarce attractive cover Reference: 518 |
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2 x 2 mills orange, 2 x 10 mills violet + 30 mills grey green cancelled with bi-lingual bridged cds Bab el Lud to Haifa 5 May 1945, MS 'Recommendée' & registration label + MS 89 in blue crayon; large double ring cachet RM (censor?) & sealing tape 'opened by Censor' red on white, tied front and back with hexagon censor cachet 'Palestine Passed by Censor H4' & h/s code 007204; b/s Cairo 5 May 1945, registered Haifa 14 May 1945: opened roughly at top but a nice 'busy' cover Reference: 515 |
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Decorative advertising flyer for Zion Hall Jerusalem, August c1934, including 'Tolstoi, a Drama in 5 parts' & publicity for a shop selling perfumes, hats, shoes etc., in English, Hebrew, Arabic, French; franked with Palestine 4 mills red (SG 8) overprinted 'O.P.D.A.½ mill.' (Ottoman Public Debt Administration); crease where folded but a rare & spectacular use Reference: 480 |
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India KGVI stamps on envelope from Kirkee to Haifa, Palestine, 7 December 1940; opened by Censors in India & Palestine & resealed twice at the top & the left, with fine array of different censor's seals & cachets including Palestine hexagon type 'Palestine Passed by Censor 75'; Haifa arrival on reverse 14 January 1941 Reference: 390 |
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Palestine 20 mils 'Citadal' on envelope inscribed 'This letter is written in English' to Utica, New York 30 August 1943, with cachet of the 'Zion Orphanage' & British 'tombstone' Crown censor h/s 'Passed KK/2' Reference: 386 |
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Palestine 15 mils blue 'Dome of the Rock' on Thos Cook envelope Jerusalem to Alexandria, 13 October 1942, censored with sealing label PC22 'Opened by Censor 69/7633' & Egyptian small d/c 'Censorship Dept M' cachet on arrival; nice combination with slight age marks Reference: 385 |
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13 mils red on buff PS card cancelled with a light Cairo machine d/s to Jerusalem; with Egyptian Censor double ring handstamp with M in centre, all text in Hebrew Reference: 224 |
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Hungary 10f green on buff pictorial PS card with added 10f brown St Stephen's Crown issue, cancelled October 1958(?) (date not clear); with fine strike of the hexagonal censor h/s 'Palestine Passed by Censor T6': an unusual combination, text in German Reference: 223 |
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7 mils pictorial postal stationery card with large advertisement for the Phila stamp exhibition, with added 2 mils, cancelled with the exhibition datestamp, used locally, clean card Reference: 218 |
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Palestine pictorial issue 2 x 2 mils, interpanneau pair 5 mils, 8 mils, on plain card endorsed 'Phila 1945 Tel-Aviv' and with large keyhole type registered datestamp with the same text, 8 April 1945, scarcer card Reference: 217 |