Tel Aviv Stamps - Auction #50

Dear friends and collectors,

This is our GOLD auction as it contains our 50th sale.
The results of our previous auction, held on 16 February 2021 during the
Covid-19 Era, were excellent. We hope that the current sale will also arouse a
great interest.

We offer a Rare Doar Ivri Plate Blocks selection but special heed should be
paid to the Turkish Post, Jewish Colonies, Palestine stamps, Israel 1st
 Postage Dues, Autographs
and Palestine Banknotes.

This auction can be viewed only at telavivstamps.com. You can browse all the
sections of the catalogue at your convenience.
Many more images are shown on the website, these could not be included in
the hard copy.

Please FAX or E-mail your final bids to avoid delays. Bidders are requested to
include their FAX or E-mail & telephone numbers on their bid sheets.
With all good and sincere wishes,

YACOV TSACHOR & ZVI ALONI 

JEWISH COLONIES (see also 24 & 43)

Lot #: 45

The 1st Jewish Post in Palestine - Herzliya Gymnasium Students' Service during 1912 New Year period, JNF label (Kap #39) tied by superb full strike of the Students' Herzl Club oval cachet in Violet, on ppc to Nina Berlin, message in Hebrew on Rosh Ha'shana eve 1912; vf & Very Rare as 12 items from this "post" recorded,  certif.  Tsachor-Aloni

[PPC]
Start: $2,500 Sold For: $3,150
Lot #: 46

Colony Gedera - 1 VI 1911  Austrian 10 centimes imptd pc 1908 issue, message in Yiddish mentioning Rehoboth, from Gedera (Katra)  to Jerusalem, posted at the Austrian Post of Jaffa 1 VI 11, arrival same day in Jerusalem; vf & scarce

[PC]
Start: $500 Sold For: $745
Lot #: 47

POSTE CATRA (St.701) bilingual French Hebrew cachet of GEDERA COLONY superb  full strike in Violet on front of ppc (very scarce Tchlenov, Achad Ha'am .... One People One Land) franked 20 para 1908 Austrian Levant stp, message in Hebrew written in Gedera on 29.4.14  mailed to Amram Khazanoff in Berkeley California via the Austrian Post in JAFFA - 3.5.14 pmk (St.527) on front; vf & Very Rare, certif Tsachor-Aloni

[PPC]
Start: $3,500 Sold For: $4,410
Lot #: 48

HADERA 5 para -10 c Austrian (Crete 1908) postal stationery card (Mi P 28) sent from the Jewish Colony HADERA to H. Lowe in Berlin, message in German ex "Chaderah - 4/IV/1913", bearing a Greenish framed w/stars 5 (para) HADERA Local label tied by Hebrew 2 lines date cachet in Violet, imprinted 10 c stp cancelled JAFFA  OSTER. POST 7. IV. 14 (St. 527). pc with many signatures of settlers in Hadera; vf Top Rarity, certif Tsachor-Aloni

[PC]
Start: $6,000 Sold For: $8,400
Lot #: 49

HADERA 10 para BISECT -10 c Austrian (Crete 1908) postal stationery card (Mi P 28) sent from the Jewish Colony HADERA to JAFFA bearing uncancelled Bisect of Pink 10 (para) HADERA Local, imprinted 10 c stp cancelled JAFFA  OSTER. POST 28. V. 14 (St. 527). Back w/violet office hnstp of  “Palastina Amt” in Jaffa w/manuscript date of arrival 29. V. 14. Sender’s address in Yiddish reads “Workers’ Council Hadera”; 1 closed filing hole at left otherwise vf Top Rarity as 1 of 3 Bisects recorded. Illustrated page 403 of vol. 2 Foreign Post Offices by Steichele - Coll. Ex Sorani w/his signature on face, sign & certif. Muentz, certif Tsachor-Aloni

[PC]
Start: $7,500 Sold For: $9,765
Lot #: 50

Kinneret - 18.5.1914  Austrian 10 centimes 1908 issue stp on ppc (Jerusalem), return address m. s. Kinnereth/pres Tiberias/Famm Treidel  posted at the Austrian Post Haifa 23.5.14 to Berlin, message in German by tourist staying with Family Treidel ; vf & Rare

[PPC]
Start: $400 Sold For: $1,800
Lot #: 51

Colony Milhamia (near Tiberias) cv w/this return address posted via TIBERIAS OET (D1 - E+) 9 JY 19 vf pmk tying 2x5m (2x #9) to cv mailed to the International Bureau of Peace in Bern, via APO SZ23 11 JY & Port Said 11 JL censored; vf & very scarce origin

[CV]
Start: $400 Sold For: $850
Lot #: 52

Colony  Merhavia - 12 9 1914  Austrian 10 centimes imptd pc 1908 issue, return address: "Merchawya bei Caifa Osterr Post Palestine" posted at the Austrian Post Haifa to Frauline T. Halpern in Davos - Switzerland, message in Yiddish written in Merhavia; vertical fold, f-vf & Rare

[PC]
Start: $600 Sold For: $1,300
Lot #: 53

Colony Mescha - cv mailed from Russia 15.4.14 (stps on back partly off) by A. I. Katzenelsohn  to  "Colony Mescha - Tabor pres Tiberiade", on back transit Austrian Post CAIFA  8.5.14 pmk & Turkish arrival pmk TIBERIADE 9.5.14; back flap missing, fine

[CV]
Start: $350 Sold For: $525
Lot #: 54

Russian Post in the Holy Land - 10.9.1914 Julian date = 23.9.1914 Gregorian date - very late date of the  KAIFA ROPIT transit  vf pmk on face of a pc from Russia (4 Kop stp cross cancelled) mailed to "Colony Mescha Tabor pres Tiberiade", on back Turkish arrival pmk TIBERIADE 30 9 14; light toning, f-vf 

[PC]
Start: $500 Sold For: $800

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