South Africa Peltours Service - GILGIL Camp - Air letter mailed by an Israeli Revisionist, detained by the British, to his family in Tel Aviv via the South African Zionist Fed. their cachet "Per Postal Communications Box 18 Johannesburg" on front, brought to Israel by Peltours - oval cachet on face in the First Shipment from South Africa & mailed by them 10m D. Ivri stp tied by pmk TEL-AVIV 11.6.1948 (in the contents the detainee tells about the way to send mail via South Africa); air letter w/marginal faults but cpl, pmk & cachet clear, fine & a Rare comb. of a cv of the 1st shipment from S. Africa & Gilgil
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ISRAEL POSTAL HISTORY incl. EARLY LINKS & ARABS
ISRAEL POSTAL HISTORY incl. EARLY LINKS & ARABS
June 1948 Service Suspended USA to Israel - Airmail cv 25 JUNE 1948 franked 25c from Boston - Mass. to Hadera marked "Return to Sender" and Service Suspended in manuscript. Until June 28, when postal relations were formally established by the USA, anyone in the USA who did not utilize PEDI's services found it virtually impossible to communicate postally with Israel; vf
Peltours Service - cv forwarded via the South African Zion. Fed. of JHB, their 2 lines cachet vf strike bottom left of cv: "PER POSTAL .... BOX 18, JOHANNESBURG", figure "1" denotes that payment of 1 Shilling was made, mailed to Ramat Gan Israel, from the 3rd mail bag brought to Israel by Peltours - oval cachet on face & mailed by them with a 10m D. Ivri stp tied by pmk TEL-AVIV 6.7.1948; roughly opened at top & top horiz. fold away from stp, fine
Courier cv Boston - Mass. to Hadera mailed unfranked by the courier, boxed TO PAY 20 MILS, taxed 20m 1st P. Dues (#J4) tied by HADERA M.O. (Money Order) 30 SP 48; vf & scarce
Collection 1967-1997 Postal Communication between Israeli Held Territories and Arab Countries. Red Cross sheets, “Return to Sender” cachets after 1967 Six Day War, Pas de Service via Israel cachets. Clandestine mail routes, via Allenby and Adam Bridges & via a 3rd country - Cyprus and England, “Exterior” cvs to postmasters, Private messenger cvs + private “stamps”(!). Late arrival “taxed” cvs from Bridges, cvs franked w/private travel agencies labels. Docs of passage through Allenby and Adam Bridges to Jordan, early Palestine Authority commerc. covers & mint stps, provisional bridge postmarks etc.; majority commercial, all clearly explained, housed in 4 albums, vf, (over 600 cvs + stps & docs) Impossible to Duplicate. Great Opportunity