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Monday 18 Jan 2021 at 22:00 Israel Time (10:00 PST / 15:00 EST / 07:00 AEDT on the 19th)

Stamps, Postal History & Philately of all periods of the Holyland, Palestine Mandate & Israel and Near East | Jewish & Zionist Philately, Ephemera and Memorabilia | Postal History of Worldwide War-times & Conflicts, including 'Postkrieg' - from the American Civil War to the Present Day | & much more...

The sale features all aspects of philately and postal history: perforations, papers, printings, settings & overprints; postal rates, routes, handling, markings, censorship, civilian & military mail, taxed mail, and more

The opening bid price is flexible and bids of at least 80% of the opening price will be accepted. Lots can be purchased outright at the published buyout price; in order to not discourage bidding on a lot, this price will rise if the bidding level passes the midway point between the opening bid price and the initial buyout price. The buyer's commission is 18% on the hammer price; layaways and installment payments can be arranged.

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As philately is complex and multi-faceted, we gave much thought to the issue of classifications and categorizations - and search and display functions to aid visitors in navigating the sale.

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• Here we should point out that in our sales we are able to assign a lot to up to 2 categories, and this is in order to help address bidder interests in varying fields. These category assignments sometimes turn on a razor's edge regarding their relevance and priority, and are based on the priority of relevance of the classification to the particulars of the lot. For example, for a cover where "1948-49 Rates & Routes" and "1948 Post Siege Interim Jerusalem" categories could be relevant, such a cover would only be assigned to the latter category if it bore an "interim Jerusalem" characteristic. Likewise, certain subjects may be mutually exclusive: covers assigned to the "taxed mail" categories will rarely be additionally assigned to a "postal history" category unless there is a special circumstance for it (eg. a special postage rate used). Similarly, special military postmarks or issues pertaining to them are relegated to "military mail" as a single subject and not placed additionally in the "postmarks & postal markings" categories (eg. of Israel, by the locale). Here also, special markings related to service suspensions in Arab-Israeli conflict are covered exclusively in that section. On desktop and laptop computers the "Sales Categories" menu will display the range of the lot numbers assigned to the categories: here, please note that the lot number appears only next to the primary category a lot has been assigned. That same lot may also appear in another category - but its lot number will not appear as part of the range. One clue that additionally-categories lots appear in a menu selection is the discrepancy in the menu's summary of the number of lots included there: it may show lots #1-3 but the summary will show (10) items to be displayed.

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Wartime 1948 Mandate-franked mail AMIAD to TEL AVIV via Interim Postal service

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1948 interim / small locales in battle: undated German-language family correspondence cover from ROSH PINA (return addressed [Kibbutz] AMIAD - probably couriered) to Shikun Sablawi TEL AVIV ("Tell a viv") franked 10m per period letter rate using 4m & 6m Mandate pictorals (this rare: not sold over the counter in interim period but perhaps in possession of sender in Amiad) & tied by full strike of scarce local Minhelet Haam cancel in black (i.e. cover mailed between 2-14 May); handwritten notation "3322 Balfouria" on back; appears originally sent unsealed; horizontal fold at base (possible indication cover was couriered).
Historically significant cover: Rosh Pina was secured by Jewish forces from 26 April until 4-5 May (around the time this cover may have been sent), in Operations Yiftach and Matateh; Amiad was a tiny nearby locale reliant on Rosh Pina for its water supplies, founded 1946 by 28 members of Aliyat HaNoar ('Youth Aliya') organized into a Palmach force and probably affected by same 1948 military operations - locale originally intended to be a settlement for demobilized members of the Jewish Brigade. If cover transmitted during the military operations this may explain reference to moshav BALFOURIA (as improvised transit) on way to destination. Addressee locale is where former Jewish Brigade members settled and was later renamed "Yad Eliyahu" (in memory of Hagana commander Eliyahu Golomb) - here a rare reference on postal cover.

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1948 interim / small locales in battle: undated German-language family correspondence cover from ROSH PINA (return addressed [Kibbutz] AMIAD - probably couriered) to Shikun Sablawi TEL AVIV ("Tell a viv") franked 10m per period letter rate using 4m & 6m Mandate pictorals (this rare: not sold over the counter in interim period but perhaps in possession of sender in Amiad) & tied by full strike of scarce local Minhelet Haam cancel in black (i.e. cover mailed between 2-14 May); handwritten notation "3322 Balfouria" on back; appears originally sent unsealed; horizontal fold at base (possible indication cover was couriered).
Historically significant cover: Rosh Pina was secured by Jewish forces from 26 April until 4-5 May (around the time this cover may have been sent), in Operations Yiftach and Matateh; Amiad was a tiny nearby locale reliant on Rosh Pina for its water supplies, founded 1946 by 28 members of Aliyat HaNoar ('Youth Aliya') organized into a Palmach force and probably affected by same 1948 military operations - locale originally intended to be a settlement for demobilized members of the Jewish Brigade. If cover transmitted during the military operations this may explain reference to moshav BALFOURIA (as improvised transit) on way to destination. Addressee locale is where former Jewish Brigade members settled and was later renamed "Yad Eliyahu" (in memory of Hagana commander Eliyahu Golomb) - here a rare reference on postal cover.