Mail Auction #43

Israel Postal History - PEDI (Palestine Emergency Deliveries Inc.) cover sent from USA to Israel, frank 25 Cents tied by PEDI p/m May 24 1948 (very early usage, one of the first PEDI flights). This cover with serial # 1973.  Upper margin open uneven, 2 vertical & horizontal middle folds. F-VF.  The PEDI covers was a private company founded by the Jewish Agency in New York, to collect mail and send it to Israel at the time the British ceased their postal activities in the Mandate and air links to it were suspended. PEDI mail was carried as baggage , first on KLM flights to Rome Italy, and then forwarded to Israel by Czechoslovakian airlines.