Auction #47 - Live Internet Auction

 
WW1 German Military, lot of 2 postal items:

1917 (5 Oct.) Feldpost Card to Expedition Corps, Damascus: Addressed to the Expedition Corps stationed in Damascus, this card bears a 20 para stamp tied with a "Feldpost/Mil. Miss./Jerusalem/-5-10-1917" cds.
1916 (28 Nov.) Stampless Cover to Beirut, endorsed "Feldpost", bears the  28-11-1916 Feldpost Bir-es-Seba cds. This item likely represents one of the earliest usages by...

Jerusalem photo postcard: Woman praying at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, franked with 20pa Turkish stamps tied by Jerusalem CDS. Hotel MORCOS - Grand New Hotel cachet alongside. Addressed to London, England

1918, "E.E.F.", 1 Pia indigo printing (SG 1), The Blues 1918, 10 Feb. wmk. 1, rouleted Cat. $450. Very Fine.

1920 Palestine "Jerusalem I"  Block of 4, Bale: 17, 27 "B" perf 14,  Position 200. Original gum MNH. Cat 240.$

1920 Palestine "Jerusalem I"  Block of 4 Bale: 37. 5p perf 15 : 14 deep-purple. Original gum MNH. Cat $150. 

1922. Palestine "London II" Bale: 84 20Pia bright violets perf 14. Original gum MNH. Cat $250. 

1939 (23 SE). Airmail cover from New York, United States to Mount Carmel. The cover was underfranked with 8 c. stamps and struck with "To Pay" postmarks in New York. Upon arrival in British Mandate Palestine, the cover was censored and hand-stamped with the local "To Pay 14mil" postmark, necessitating the affixing of additional postage due stamps and tied by the Mount Carmel 12 OCTOBER arrival circular date stamp (cds).

1945: A commercial cover from the Royal Exchange Assurance in Jerusalem, bearing proper franking with a vertical strip of five 3 mil stamps (Perf. 13 1/2 x 15), featuring a variety of 1/2 Gutter. Sent to the manager of the Cairo branch in Egypt, the cover underwent censorship twice, once in Palestine and once in Egypt.

British Mandate Palestine 1926 - 1948 lot of 9 registered air mail envelopes. Each envelope features commercial advertisements from various companies and was dispatched to different countries worldwide 

First issue 1929 booklet, Bale A.1a, with minor imperfections: Out of seven pans of six stamps each, two pans exhibit faults: the 3m. pane is missing four out of six stamps, and in the last pane of the 5mil, two stamps are stuck onto the following advertisement pane. despite these imperfections, all advertisement pans remain intact without visible separation from the stamp panes. the booklet is secured with two staples on the right side and...

First issue 1929, Cat Bale: A.3a, dummy booklet. The booklet contains all pans of advertisements and blank perforated panes. There are some separations of the leaves, and some of the blank stamp pages are stuck onto the advertisement pans. Catalog value $3,000. Very scarce.                                                               
Dummy booklets, produced without actual stamps but with interleaving, served as promotional tools...

First issue 1929 - Cat Bale: A.2a. The booklet is stapled twice on the right side, with no adverts on the back cover. It is incomplete, with only 8 stamps remaining: 2x2m, 1x3m, 3x5m. Despite its partial state, the booklet showcases remarkable preservation of the original advertisement pans, with all 9 leaves intact and well-preserved. This offers a unique glimpse into the advertising trends of its era. With a significant portion of the...