Auction No. 9 Saturday, 16 April 2011 / 1:00 pm start
Israel 1948-1968 covers, cards & PSE's, mainly ...
Estimate $100
Realised: $100 plus premium
Category: Collections, Accumulations and Selections > World
Lot Details
Israel 1948-1968 covers, cards & PSE's, mainly unaddressed in two small FDC albums. Many commemorate opening of POs plus range of 1967 military occupation. Only a few earlier noting first coin type 5m on Herzl cover & 10m on cover with inscription "After two thousand years…the first day of the Jewish State"; 1953 15m 1949/50 coin type tied by pictorial cancel & with oval "POSTED ONBOARD M/S Stella Polaris"; 1957 covers (2) with Israeli & Egyptian stamps tied by Gaza cds & 1949 addressed 15pr PSE similar to 1950 camel design & FDI Tel Aviv cancel. Worth careful viewing. (175)
