1927 Imperial Airways Special Flight - Cairo - Gaza - Baghdad - Karachi 1st Palestine mail for Iraq & India. American Express Co. Jerus. imptd. stationery cv frank 26m (SG #79x2) - 13m letter rate + 13m airmail fee, pmkd meter Jerusalem 3 APR 1927. Newall p 277: "a special mail carrying flight on this route stopped exceptionally at Gaza on 5 April 1927.... only 3 letters for Karachi left in the Gaza Post Office...", Baghdad 7 APR transit & arrival Karachi DRIGH ROAD 15 APR 27, Redirected to Airstrip Base; slight roughly opened at top & vertical centerfold, fine & Rare, Newall #27.11Ab rated RR
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AIR MAIL (Palestine Related)
AIR MAIL (Palestine Related)
3 Crash cvs Palestine related: a) Scipio Crash - 1936 (Aug. 20) air mail cv Haifa to Belgium frank 15m crashed on Aug. 22, French sealing labels on back. Nierinck 360822; b)Surface mail Haifa to England stamps off, w/Violet cachet in English & Afrikaans "CORRESPONDENCE DAMAGED BY SEAWATER" applied in 1942 to salvaged mail to London. c) 1955 El-Al Crash in Bulgaria - 19.7.55 air mail ppc Romania to Haifa, official crash cachet in Hebrew on face dated 27.7.55; f-vf (3)
30 Nov 1940 large commerc. Air Mail Regist. cv from TLV to Long Island - USA frank 1890m (9x200m, SG #103 + 50m + 2x20m) to pay the air mail rate of 125m x15 + 15m registration, as addressed to a Bank the cv was subject to "Executive Order 8389" cachet on front (explanatory note attached), redirected for the censorship to Haifa & sent from Haifa Eastbound on 10 Dec. 1941 (3 days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor). Cv sent by the "Horseshoe" reserve route 3 (explanatory note attached) to Australia & New Zealand & from there to Hawaii & San Francisco by NATC (Navy Air Transport Command) airplains (Thomas H. Boyle, Airmail Operations during WW2 p. 35), on back transit San Francisco Feb. 2 1942 & arrival Long Island N.Y. Feb. 4 1942; few peripheral tears, fine & unusual war time route
Poster - 1929 Zeppelin Orientfahrt - Mail Drop was announced by means of posters in & around the town of Er Ramle. Most were washed away by the rain. According to Fred Blau 1 original is believed to survive & 10 Facsimiles made - this being No 1 ex collection J.D. van As, litho print in Red, 15x21cm trilingual: Hebrew, English & Arabic; vf
1929/86 Haifa Air Mail & First Flights mail - 65 cvs, pcs & ppcs bearing F. Fl., Airline companies cachets & Airmail markings related to Haifa, incl: 1929 & 1931 Zeppelin flights, 1940 Trans- Atlantic via clipper mail, 1941 via pacific from USA to Haifa, 1944/5 OAT 4 cvs, 1948 PEDI F.Fl. No 524 & First Flights: 1931 London-Haifa, Haifa-London, Haifa-Athens, Haifa-India, 1932 Haifa-Cyprus, 1935 Nicosia-Haifa, 1936 "LOT" 6 cvs, Haifa-Iraq, 1937 Haifa-Rhodes, Haifa-Rome, Haifa-Trieste, 1948 Holland-Israel & many more; f-vf (x65) valuable
AUSTRIAN POST
AUSTRIAN POST
1929 Orientfahrt cv franked 2RM Eagle pmkd Fried'havn 24 MRZ 29 addr to "Hebron - Anglo-Palestine Company", dropped over Ramleh & forwarded to Jerusalem 27 MAR 29 machine pmk & arrival HEBRON same day; vf, a Rare destination, certif Dieter Leder
PALESTINE FORERUNNERS
Catalogues:
The Ottoman Posts & Telegraph Offices in Palestine & Sinai – N.J. Collins & Steichele (listed St. PM or PM)
Steichele – "Ottoman Post" (listed w/double Numbers)
Steichele – "Handbook of Holy Land Philately" Vols. I + II – revised by N.J. Collins & L. Dickstein
The Postal History of the Ottoman Post in The Holy Land – Aloni & Hackmey
PALESTINE FORERUNNERS
Catalogues:
The Ottoman Posts & Telegraph Offices in Palestine & Sinai – N.J. Collins & Steichele (listed St. PM or PM)
Steichele – "Ottoman Post" (listed w/double Numbers)
Steichele – "Handbook of Holy Land Philately" Vols. I + II – revised by N.J. Collins & L. Dickstein
The Postal History of the Ottoman Post in The Holy Land – Aloni & Hackmey
THE PRE-PHILATELIC PERIOD: Haifa 29 OCT 1854 folded letter complete w/full text in Greek to Athens forwarded to Beyrouth by the Agent "AVIERINO CAIFFA" then by the Agent "NICOLAS ZIFFO & CO. BEYROUTH" both with oval cachets on back, the latter also dated the letter in manscpt "30 Oct 1854", then to the Lloyd their oval pmk on face "BERUTTI - AGENZIA DEL LLOYD AUSTRIACO" (St. 500.2), marked "10" for Greek Leptas to pay the domestic fee on arrival. ATHENS 29 OCT 1854 arrival pmk (Greek Orthodox calendar - 12 days diff. from the Gregorian of Beyrouth); exceptional fine quality for this type of mail, Very Rare, ex Schaeffer, certif Tsachor - Aloni
1868 St. Jean d'Acre to Malta - 2 pages folded letter from Acri by C. Avierino dated 23 July 1868 to Signori B. Tagliaferre & Figls in Malta, endorsed "Via Jaffa", on face "C. AVIERINO- St Jn D'ACRE & CAIFFA" oval bilingual cachet, inside recipient's note: "1867, C. Avierino, Acri, 3 Luglio, Rec 23 D, Risp 27 D"; usual archive fold, f - vf
1868 St. Jean d'Acre to Malta - 1 page folded letter from Acri on C. Avierino's embossed stationery dated 23 February 1868 to Signori B. Tagliaferre & Figls in Malta,on face "C. AVIERINO- St Jn D'ACRE & CAIFFA" oval cachet, inside recipient's note: "1867, C. Avierino, Acri, 23 Febbrajo, Rec 4 Maigo, Risp 16"; usual archive fold, f - vf
JEWISH COLONIES: 1909 Petah Tiqva 14 para local ("Oranges") top marginal bl. of 4; u/m, light gum bends, f-vf & scarce