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Dear friends and collectors,

Welcome to our 52nd auction. The results of our 51st auction, which can be viewed on our website were excellent and show a stable market eager for better items in most specialties.

This is our last auction. During the past 33 years we have dealt with hundreds of vendors and serviced thousands of bidders worldwide. We thank all for the full trust they have given us.
We are also very proud of helping build many collections, some of which reached the highest levels in international shows.

It is with great sorrow that we remember the untimely demise of Zvi Aloni z.l.
Zvi died on September 10 2022, at the age of 74, after a short cancer illness.
He will be greatly missed by his family and many friends.
May he rest in peace.

This auction is highlighted by 2 Large Gold Medals  collections: Holyland Forerunners (incl. Colonies) part 2  and 1948 Doar Ivri.
Other specialties are well represented culminating with a fine section of banknotes.

With all good and sincere wishes,

Yacov Tsachor

 

TURKISH POST

Lot #: 74

ACRE (PM8) full strike 8/1885 on 20pa imptd Turk. pc to France, Date Inverted & 2 years earlier than Collins, via ALEX. 22 VIII 85, PARIS Aug. 29 & arrival MANDE 30 Aug. 85; f - vf an undercat. pmk missing in most collections

[PC] [] [] [CV]
Start: $400 Sold For: $525
Lot #: 75

ACRE (PM8) 2 fine strikes 5/1897 tying 4pi franking (4x1pi) to Double Weight (23 grams written on front) Registered AR cv w/Rare seal of registration (RC2) on top left, franking is: 1pi basic + 1pi registry + 1pi Advice of Delivery + 1pi addit.  weight, Registry  #47. Galata transit + Istanbul arrival pmks on back; 3 wax seals off on back, light marginal faults not affecting this fine Top Rarity, sign Nakri, certif Tsachor, photo Collins p.36

[CV]
Start: $1,200 Sold For: $1,500
Lot #: 76

Acre 1 (PM12) all Arabic vf pmk 5.3.916 on pc (earlier than Collins) tying 30pa Turk. stps (10+20pa) correct 20pa rate + 10pa War Tax, pc to Tiberias 1 (PM5) arrival pmk, at top left the Rare  Oval Acre 2 negative censor seal; vf, a Rare pc, certif Tsachor

[PC]
Start: $600 Sold For: $600
Lot #: 77

AIOUN CARA (PM1) complete Violet pmk 29-8-907 tying 10pa Turk. stp - printed matter rate as 5 words in the message, by Freiman, ppc is Rare N. Year Greetings (Der Tempelplatz) Galata arrival 12.9.1907; f - vf, signed & certif Muentz, very scarce

[PPC]
Start: $600 Sold For: $2,600
Lot #: 78

AIOUN - CARA (PM1) f - vf strike in Black of this difficult pmk 1.9.908 mailed to Levin on ppc "Love of Zion" to Konigsburg, ad cachet of Rabinowitz of Jerusalem w/o message frank 5pa; few scattered spots, fine Rare pmk

[PPC]
Start: $300 Sold For: $735
Lot #: 79

Beersheeba 1 (PM2) superb all Arabic pmk as arrival 30-11-915 on back of commerc cv ex Pera - Constple frank 1pi + 10pa War Tax via BENI SAAB (PM3) - 19-11-915, censored, Redirected to Beersheba - Arabic top left, originally addressed to Tul-Karem by Nablus; very light vert. fold away from stps & pmks, vf & Rare, Collins: "1 cv Recorded", signed Nakri

[CV]
Start: $500 Sold For: $500
Lot #: 80

BETHLEHEM (#T2) Telegraph seal in Violet 2 vf strikes tying 3x20pa Turk. stps to Registered 1899 N. Year ppc: 20pa pc rate + 40pa regist, Recommandee No. 19 in manscpt & regist cachet RC2 (1 pc known), mailed to Wien, via Jerus, 25.12.99; vf, sign Nakri

[PC]
Start: $750 Sold For: $1,300
Lot #: 81

HAIFA POSTA SHUBESI 1287 (PM3) in Violet clear Negative Seal on Nazareth - Gruss Aus ppc tying 20pa Turkish stp, mailed to Austria c/o Thomas Cook & Sons travel Agency Wien, their Haifa oval 9.5.98 cachet on front, transit ALEXANDRIA 12.V.98 & WIEN arrival pmks, short message dated 5.5.98; top left & bottom right light corner creases, f - vf & Rare, certif Tsachor 

[PPC]
Start: $500 Sold For: $625
Lot #: 82

HAIFFA (PM7) 4 full pmks 22.11.902 tying 160pa Turk. stps (8x20pa = 4pi) to Registered cv to Hamburg, Regist. cachet RC1 #719, rate: 1pi basic + 1pi regist. + 2x1pi for x2 additional weight, arrival 3.12.02, sent by Augusto Parodi his cachet on face & wax seal on back; vf triple rate cv

[CV]
Start: $500 Sold For: $625
Lot #: 83

CAIFFA1 (PM12) vf pmks 15-6-17 tying 3x20pa to front & 4x10pa to back of Registered cv to Germany, correct 2pi regist & 20pa War Tax, boxed R cachet (RC3 - 4 recorded + 1200), 2 diff Turk, censors on face & Red seal on back, transit pmks BEYROUTH 19-6-17 & STAMBOUL 1-VII-17; scattered toning, fine & scarce

[CV]
Start: $400 Sold For: $625