1st Air Mail - 16 Photo Essays, 13 final adopted & 3 rejected designs: 5x3, 30x3, 40x3, 50x2, 100x4 & 250pr, Black on White glazed paper, incl: Dove 100pr, varieties of descriptive inscriptions, unadopted 30 & 40pr, generally stamp size, Ex artist O. Wallish files, all different, no duplication, all mounted on exhibit pages & described; vf (x16), (few w/Muentz certif.) hard to assemble, a great opportunity
Dear friends and collectors,
Welcome to our 47th auction. The results of our January 2019 Sale were excellent and prove the steady demand for better Holy Land items. View the Prices Realized list on the website.
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The Auction has most specialties well represented. Especially noteworthy are the sections of Holy Land Forerunners, Jewish Colonies, Mandate Stamps & used abroad, 1948 Interim, Doar Ivri, 1948 1st Festivals, 1950 1st Air Mail, Zionist Congresses & Holocaust mail.
We are proud to offer, for the 1st time, the collection: Israel 1948 – 1952 Plate Blocks on FDCs.
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With all good and sincere wishes,
YACOV TSACHOR & ZVI ALONI
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1950: 1st AIR-MAIL SERIES ESSAYS, PROOFS & COLOR TRIALS
1950: 1st AIR-MAIL SERIES ESSAYS, PROOFS & COLOR TRIALS
1950 1st Air Mails: Imperforate Composite Essay in blocks of 4 Green - Blue on White gummed paper w/wide Green- Blue margins all around: 30pr Unadopted design, 40 & 250pr the Adopted designs; few light scattered spots on gum side as expected for such a large multiple (20½ x 24cm), vf & Very Rare, signed & certif Tsachor-Aloni, sold in our April 1992 auction, lot 1313, for a total of $7800
Major Rarity: 250pr (#C6) Imperforate Proof in the issued Blue color, horiz. strip of 4 stps in TETE-BECHE format w/central gutter. The 1st Air Mails were printed in large printers sheets of 300 - like the 1st Festivals in Tete Beche format & this item is the evidence for this, but issued in panes of 50 stps ; vertical fold in gutter, small spot in gutter, u/m, still vf & Extremely Rare, the only recorded, Ba #37IIIc - $3750, under cat., Ex Kestenbaum, Dr. Pildes & Gruzd, certif Tsachor-Aloni, a Key item in any Israel Collection
50pr (#C3) COLOR TRIAL - Proof in Accepted colors of Red Brown, Imperf. Block of 4 with margins & small control number 133 at bottom left, gummed paper; u/m, few spots, vf & the only recorded, certif Tsachor-Aloni
THE FIRST DAY COVERS: 1950 1st Air Mails 5 - 250pr (Sc #C1/6) cpl set of 6 w/FULL TABS tied by 3 FD pmks TEL AVIV - 26.6.1950 repeated on back, to the Official FDC; cv cleaned, still vf & Very Rare, 26 June was the 1st Day of Sale of the tabbed stps to the public, certif Muentz & Tsachor - Aloni, Ba $7500