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O.E.T.A. 1919-20 Stampless O.A.S Cover and card with skeleton datestamps of Nazareth or Tul Keram (minor faults but scarce) and 1920 cover from G.B with Acre skeleton arrival backstamp. Also 1919 postcard from Haifa to Germany with an uncancelled 5m stamp, violet "E.P.C" and a Freiburg censor, backstamped at Alexandria; and covers franked 5m pair with datestamps of Haifa or Jaffa. (6). £120-150
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O.E.T.A - Jerusalem. 1918-20 Covers and cards with Palestine stamps tied by Jerusalem double ring c.d.s (4, two registered, one to Switzerland with violet "E.P.C"), skeleton c.d.s (3, also a C.T.O stampless postcard) or Meo Sheorim Jslm skeleton, and a cover from France to Jerusalem bearing three Found Open and Officially Sealed labels tied by 14 strikes of the skeleton c.d.s. (9). £150-180
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O.E.T.A. 1919-1920 Registered covers from Safed to London franked 5m pair and 1p or to Denmark franked 2p; or from Tiberias franked 3m pair and 2p, each with OETA skeleton c.d.s on the stamps and registration labels, all fine. (3). £140-180
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Postage Paid. 1920 (Sep 8) Cover to Tel Aviv with two Jerusalem skeletons and red "JERUSALEM / PAID (15) MILLS" skeleton used due to a shortage of stamps, backstamped at Jaffa and Tel Aviv. Light vertical fold, otherwise fine. £80-100
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Mint and used selection, various settings with plate varieties and blocks, including 1918 (Feb.) 1p indigo unused and used and 5m on 1p cobalt-blue unused; 1918 (Mar.-May) 5m on 1p ultramarine mint corner marginal block of 18; 1922 (Sep.-Nov.) perf 14 10p with inverted watermark used (a little creased), 20p violet used pairs (2, together forming a rejoined block); 1927-45 set of 14 handstamped "SPECIMEN" and 90m bistre used vertical strip of three; 1947 U.P.U Congress presentation booklet containing 16 various 1927 or 1932 issue stamps to the 500m; 1942 250m - £P1 in mint blocks of four and singles perforated "SPECIMEN", etc. (100s). £300-350
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1920 (Sep.) First local overprint, perf 15x14 1m - 20p set of eleven in mint blocks of four (all except the 4m and 5p marginal), the 5p and 9p blocks both including the variety "PALESTINB", 2m block with a few gum faults, otherwise mainly fine. S.G. 16/26, 23d, 24d, £1,000+. (11 blocks). £150-200
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1921 Jerusalem type III overprint 1m, 3m, 5m, 1p, 5p and 9p mint, 2m unused without gum, also nine Jewish National Fund labels. S.G. 47/9, 51/2, 54/5, £254+. (16). £60-70
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1927 3m Imperforate marginal plate proof block of six printed in black on white glazed paper, no gum. Photo on Page 37. £150-200
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1920-27 Covers and cards bearing Palestine overprint issues, various rates and destinations, cancels include Ramleh, Tiberias, Gaza, Ludd, etc. Also 1924 G.B to Baghdad cover sent by overland mail via Haifa, and 1923 cover from Amman (stained) bearing E.E.F 4m and 1p with Jordan overprints, two covers bearing 1927 issue in combination with the overprints, one cover backstamped boxed "MINIMUM LETTER POSTAGE / UK to PALESTINE 3D". (36). £200-250
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c.1928-47 Covers and cards, various rates and destinations, slogans, 1928 cover with 5m and 8m each perfined "APC", etc., also a few incoming covers. (81). £120-150
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Cancellations. 1918-48 Covers and cards (86, all 1927-48, many registered), pieces and stamps all with cancels from smaller offices, the covers including Sarona, Magdiel, Greek Colony, Shekhona Borokhov, Rafa-Haifa T.P.O or Haifa-Rafa T.P.O, also Haifa "PAQUEBOT" (2), "PFO GRAZ / LLOYD TRIESTINO", etc. £300-350
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Cancellations. 1920-26 Covers and cards (11) and fronts (2), most bearing Palestine overprint issues, with skeleton datestamps including Hebron, Ludd Junction, Meo Sheorim, Kantara Haifa T.P.O South (2, fronts), Jerusalem Jaffa T.P.O Down (2), Ludd (2, one written from F.P.O 83 and registered), Tel Aviv (2 types), etc., also cover with scarce Ber Yacob double ring c.d.s. (13). £200-250
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Cancellations. 1928-47 Covers and cards all with skeleton datestamps including Tel Aviv (2, one on a USA reply card), Gevat, Nahla, Tel Aviv Allenby Road (2), Tiberias, El Masmiya Alkabira, Mahne Yehuda, Mishmar Haenek, etc., four registered. (12). £160-200
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Cancellations. 1929 1p Postal stationery postcard (2 punch holes at base) with "KERKUR / POSTAL AGENCY" skeleton c.d.s, and 1945 censored cover from the U.N.R.R.A Camp at Nuseirat with 5m and 15m tied "NUSEIRAT" skeleton c.d.s, two very scarce datestamps. (2). £120-150
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Cancellations. 1933-47 Registered covers with double ring datestamps of Sarona (on a 15m postal stationery registration envelope, another c.d.s on the registration label), Salfit (manuscript registration label) or Ein Harod (on a Post Office O.H.M.S cover with bag seals impressed in wax and manuscript Kefar Yehezkel registration label), all fine and scarce. (3). £120-150
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Meters/Postage Paid. 1929-48 Covers and cards with meter marks from Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv, Haifa or Jaffa, including proof impressions (8), also Jerusalem Postage Paid c.d.s on 1929 cover and proof impressions of Jerusalem Postage Paid machine mark on two 1928 pieces. (50). £150-200
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1922-46 Covers and cards sent by express mail (6) or registered mail (11, including Nathanya c.d.s on blank label and Ludd label altered to "Ludd Jn"); 1938 blue parcel card franked 200m and other parcel labels (2); 1947 O.H.M.S card concerning demurrage charges on a parcel; other official covers (3, one registered); 1940 AR form franked 10m; telegrams (11, three pictorial greetings types); telegram receipts (2) and delivery envelope; Parcel C.O.P, and a cover sent by U.S diplomatic bag. An unusual lot. (41). £180-250
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1921-47 Covers all undelivered with various explanatory cachets, including 1921 registered cover from Egypt to Salt endorsed "No Registered Service for El Salt, Return to Sender" with "JERUSALEM / RLO" skeleton datestamps, and 1940 cover to Holland with "RETURNED TO SENDER / NO SERVICE". Also 1927 cover with Found Open and Officially Sealed labels tied by Jerusalem datestamps, and a Palestine registered Returned Letter envelope used in Israel in 1955. (12). £100-120
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Postage Dues. 1925-47 Covers and cards from Egypt (6, one much reduced), Canada (stamps removed) or USA (2, one with stamps removed) all bearing Palestine 1924 or 1928-44 issue postage due stamps, including an unusual 1937 cover from Cairo with Army Post 10m, disallowed at the civil Post Office, bearing 2m and 13m dues. Also other covers with charge marks (4, three with charges obliterated) or violet boxed "This item is short paid .... mils / It must be fully paid before it / can be despatched to destination"; and cards informing the addressee that taxed correspondence or a packet charged customs duty await collection. (16). £220-260
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Wreck Mail - S.S Kalyan. 1921 (Apr 10) Registered cover from Jaffa to England, the stamps washed off and two Palestine stamps reapplied, six "DAMAGED BY SEA / WATER" cachets applied to both sides, with May 4th arrival backstamp. Mail was damaged on the S.S "Kalyan" during a gale in the Mediterranean. Very unusual from Palestine. Photo on Page 29. £150-180
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Wreck Mail. 1946 (June 7) Cover with enclosed letter from Neuchatel, Switzerland to Tel-Aviv, stained and the stamp washed off, handstamped "DAMAGED". The only recorded cover from this unknown incident, which presumably happened on the sea voyage from Europe to Palestine. Photo on Page 29. £180-220
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1919 (Apr 23) Stampless O.H.M.S cover to "D.M.S, 1st Echelon, E.E.F" with Base A.P.O 2 c.d.s of Alexandria and boxed "AERIAL POST / E.E.F", backstamped upon arrival with F.P.O GM1 skeleton (April 26) at Haifa, flown by the emergency R.A.F air mail service from Alexandria to Ramleh. This aerial service operated form March until May 1919 when communications were disrupted in Egypt by rioting. A fine cover. Photo on Page 29. £250-300
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1922 Large stampless Dept. of Overseas Trade O.H.M.S cover from London to H.B.M Consul-General in Bushire with scarce circular unframed "AIR / MAIL" cachet signed by Lord Curzon, red official "D.O.T / (crown) / (D.I)" cachet and a red London E.C Official Paid c.d.s (Sep 25), also handstamped "BRITISH FORCES IN PALESTINE" and endorsed "From Smyrna - Redespatched by R.A.F, Jerusalem", backstamped at Baghdad (Oct 23). Central vertical fold, otherwise fine and very unusual. £100-150
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1926 Cover to Cheyenne, Wyoming, bearing Palestine 4m block of four tied by Jerusalem datestamps and marginal U.S Air Mail 16c cancelled at New York (Mar 18). U.S Air Mail stamps could be used on letters from abroad to pay for internal airmail within the USA, and were sold in some overseas countries; their use from Palestine is very unusual. Photo on Page 40. £150-200
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1925-48 First Flight covers and cards including 1925 (Nov 13) Jerusalem to Baghdad, 1929 (Apr.) London to Jerusalem (2), Calcutta to Gaza (2), 1931 London to Haifa, 1932 (Apr.) Jerusalem to Limassol (2) or Limassol to Jaffa, 1933 Gaza to Singapore, 1935 Nicosia to Lydda, 1948 'Palestine Emergency' New York to Tel Aviv First Flight to Israel (2), etc. (17). £240-300
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1933-47 Commercial air mails, covers and cards to various destinations, flown by Imperial Airways, K.L.M, Lufthansa, Air France or Ala Littoria, differing routes and rates including wartime clipper rates up to 390m, many censors and registered covers. Handstamps include bilingual "Insufficiently prepaid for air mail" (2, another cover charged 5½d in G.B), oval "O.A.T" (2), 1947 25m air letter to Canada with boxed "BY AIR TO (UK) ONLY", cover to Scotland flown by air within the UK, 1941 cover to the Internment Camp at Port St. Mary, Isle of Man, also a few incoming covers including 1944-45 covers with "PLEASE INFORM SENDER / AIR MAIL SERVICE NOT AVAILABLE" (3, two types), etc. A fine lot. (84). £350-500
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1936-37 Covers from Haifa to England, the first (20 Aug. 36) franked 15m, recovered from the "Scipio" crash at Mirabella Bay, handstamped red "DAMAGED BY / WATER"; the second cover (28 Sep. 37) recovered from the "Courtier" crash at Phaleron Bay, the stamps washed off, handstamped violet boxed "DAMAGED BY / SEA WATER / IN AIR PLANE / ACCIDENT", forwarded in a London R.L.S ambulance envelope. (3). £100-120
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1936 (Aug 21) Cover from Tel Aviv to Germany franked 7m and 8m, recovered from the "Scipio" crash at Mirabella Bay, handstamped red "Mit Luftpost befordert / Flughafen Nurnberg / Furth", the reverse with a Munich label printed in German explaining that it was recovered from a plane crash in Crete. Fine and scarce. £120-150
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1936 (Aug 21) Postcard from Tel Aviv to Germany handstamped violet "Aus verunglucktem Flugzeug / geborgen / Munchen Bahnpostamt 1", from the "Scipio" which crashed in Mirabella Bay, Crete. Also 1937 (Dec 1) cover from Jerusalem franked 5c pair to the USA, upper right corner damage, twice handstamped boxed "DAMAGED BY SEA / WATER" and "T/20", from the "Cygnus" which crashed at Brindisi. (2). £100-120
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1937 (Sep 28/29) Covers from Jericho to Germany bearing 5m pair or from Er Ramle to Scotland franked 13m, both recovered from the "Courtier" which crashed in Phaleron Bay. The cover to Germany sealed with a transparent printed seal "Amtlich verschlossen" with a Munich c.d.s and the violet cachet "Aus verunglucktem Flugzeug / durch asst geborgen"; the other cover with violet boxed "DAMAGED BY / SEA WATER / IN AIRPLANE / ACCIDENT", both fine. (2). £100-120
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1937 (Dec 1) Cover from Haifa to Vienna franked 15m, recovered from the "Cygnus" crash at Brindisi, handstamped violet "Bei Flugzeugabsturz / durch Wasser beschadigt" with a Vienna arrival c.d.s (Dec. 11). Central vertical fold and part flap missing, otherwise fine, this scarce cachet only used on mail to Austria. £100-120
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1968 (Apr 6) Cover from Harrow to Kfar Saba, Israel, franked 1/-, with violet boxed cachet in Hebrew which translates as "Letter damaged in aeroplane crash". The BOAC flight on April 8th from London to Sydney made an emergency landing when an engine fell off two minutes after its original take-off and the plane caught fire; four passengers and a Stewardess were killed. £110-130
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1936 Covers (7), a front addressed in arabic to Cairo, pieces (7), and a registration label all with British F.P.O datestamps. Also 1937 War Office cover with enclosed note from the War Minister Leslie Hore-Belisha. (17). £70-80
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Refugees/Internees. 1939-50 Covers to or from Jews, mostly refugees or held as internees or P.O.Ws, including cover from G.B to P.O Box 1000 in Mauritius and a Mauritius 10c postcard from P.O Box 1000 to Peru both with triangular censor cachets; cards from P.O.Ws in Germany (2); lettersheets from internees in Australia (2); covers and cards to or from refuges in France, Japan (2), Italy (3), Rhodes, Switzerland, Australia, China or Egypt; also German covers (2) and an identity card with 'Israel' in the senders name, Dachau Concentration Camp cover, 1948 Doar Ivri censored cover to Bergen Belsen Camp, and 1950 F.P.O cover from Germany with cachet of "The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society", etc. (25). £300-350
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1938-45 Correspondence from USA to S. Jacobsen in Germany (3), Kitchener Jewish Refugee Camp at Richborough in Kent (3) or as a soldier in the Pioneer Corps (14). Also a 1939 card from Belgium, sent whilst en route to Kitchener Camp, and 1939 covers or cards from G.B, Italy (Pfo "Orazio" c.d.s and Cristobal Paquebot), Hungary or Palestine all to Kitchener Camp. The camp was run by the Council for German Jewry in G.B; it was disbanded in 1940. (25). £200-240
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1940-48 Forces mail, mainly with F.P.O datestamps numbered from '28' to '789', also Australian F.P.Os (7, one with boxed "Travelling PO / 6 AUS. DIV. / Reg No."), NZ F.P.Os (2), Polish or Indian F.P.Os, forces mail posted into civil P.Os (4, one with violet "Censor T.J.F.F. Signals"), mail from Jewish Brigade soldiers, a few airgraphs and some ephemera, official mail, ingoing covers, airmails including clipper rates up to 3/-, 1943 stampless cover from F.P.O 721 to Tel-Aviv handstamped "CONCESSIONAL POSTAGE / (PALESTINE) PERSONNEL / BY AIR MAIL", 1944 Christmas Air Letter sent post free from F.P.O 535, etc. A fine lot. (138). £400-600
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Australian Forces. 1940 Registered cover with Australia 3d tied by Railhead P.O R.M.I c.d.s and blank type registration label with manuscript "123 T.P.O 2AIF". Also covers with Australian 9d tied by Railhead P.O R.W.1 c.d.s or Palestine stamps tied Base P.O B.W.1 or Div. Supply H.Q P.O S.M.1 datestamps. (4). £70-100
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Censors. 1939-45 Covers with various Palestine censor seals printed on blue, red, pink, green or white paper, one cover to Bolivia bearing a "Returned To Sender By The Censor" label with an enclosed censors slip in Hebrew; also censor handstamps including 'Permit' cachets and a stampless cover with red boxed "POSTAL CENSORSHIP / 2 FEB. 1940 / HAIFA". (49). £150-180
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Literature. "The Jewish Standard", the weekly Jewish newspaper published in London, volumes 2-4 (April 1941 - March 1944) bound in three volumes, much useful information on Jews in the war in G.B, Europe and worldwide. (3 vols.). £60-80
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Fleet Mail. 1948 Covers with "BRITISH FLEET MAIL / 12" c.d.s (3), one philatelic franked by G.B stamps, the other two stampless covers sent locally both with "MAIL OFFICE / H.M NAVAL BASE HAIFA" dated cachets (one also with F.P.O 731 c.d.s). Also other covers from the Haifa Naval Base (2), and covers (4) or address labels (2) to the F.M.O Haifa. (11). £100-120
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Internee/POW Mail. 1941-48 Stampless covers from Italian or German internees at Haifa (2), Acre, Bethlehem (2) or Jaffa; stampless O.H.M.S cover with "CENTRAL PRISON / ACRE" cachet; 1940 stamped cover to Switzerland addressed "c/o Inspector General, C.I.D, Jerusalem" with a cachet of the C.I.D; 1941 cover to the Commandant of No. 11 P.O.W Camp at Latrun; and cards from Italian P.O.Ws at Camp 321 Latrun (2), all fine. (11). £150-180
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IJI Ships. 1939 Cover from the "L'Agence Juive Pour La Palestine" to the S.S "Agios Nikolaos" in Greece; 1946 cover from Italy (faults) to Transit Camp No 1 at Bari with scarce bilingual "REPATRIATION SHIP / FENICE. - "ELIYAU GOLOMB""; 1947 wrapper from Tel-Aviv addressed to "Mr Boyd France, Special Reuters Correspondent on board the "Ocean Vigour", care of Hon Lt. Colonel Martin Gregson Commanding the 6th Airborne Division and the troops on the 3 deported Jews ships. In case of removal please send this to D.P Poppendorf Camp for the detained Jews"; and a photo of IJI ships at Haifa. (4). £100-120
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Cyprus. 1948 Covers to Palestine franked Cyprus 2p or to Bulgaria franked 2pi + 1pi cancelled at Famagusta, written from Camp 62 or Camp 69 (with the ships name "Morpori" added) both with differing Hebrew cachets of Camp 69, the cover to Palestine handstamped "SERVICE / SUSPENDED" with a Dead Letter Office backstamp. (2). £250-300
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Cyprus. 1947 Covers to Palestine bearing Cyprus 2pi or 1pi pair both cancelled by violet dated "HQ. 3 CAMP / DATE .... / STAFFS (SPECIAL) CYPRUS", written from Camp 69 (ship "Haoved Hazioni") or Camp 70. The first with a vertical fold, otherwise both fine and scarce. (2). Photo on Page 40. £200-250
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Cyprus. 1948 (July 28) Cover from Camp 67 to Palestine with Cyprus 2pi tied by "XYLOTYMBOU / CYPRUS" skeleton c.d.s with violet Hebrew cachet of the Committee of the State of Israel for Cyprus Detainees dated 1 AUG 1948, fine and scarce. £120-150
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Cyprus. 1947 Covers from Camp 67 (ship "Moledet") to England franked by six Cyprus 2pi stamps or from Camp 68 (ship "Hatikwa") to Palestine both cancelled by "XYLOTYMBOU / CYPRUS" skeletons, and a cover from Camp 62 (ship "Shabtai Lozinski") to Palestine with 2pi tied by "KARAOLOS / CYPRUS" skeletons. Three fine coves, all showing the ships upon which the senders were captured. (3). £250-300
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Cyprus. 1948 Covers to Palestine franked Cyprus 2pi, sent from Camp 60 with "KARAOLOS / CYPRUS" skeleton c.d.s or from Camp 66 with "XYLOTYMBOU / CYPRUS" skeleton c.d.s; 4½pi air letter cancelled at Famagusta, written from Camp 64 (ship "Aquba") to USA; USA Parcel Post tag to Camp 55 ship "Mordai" with Paterson N.J c.d.s and Palestine Customs Jerusalem Parcel Post handstamp; cover from Czechoslovakia (one stamp remaining, another removed) to Cyprus Camp 61 c/o A.JG.D, Jerusalem sent to Tel-Aviv then forwarded to Larnaca, censored in Egypt; single Cyprus stamps with skeleton cancels (3); receipts from Karaolos Camp (3); and Israel covers with Haifa slogans celebrating the arrival of the immigration ships from Cyprus (2). An interesting lot. (13). £300-350
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Formula Registration Envelopes. 1921-26 G Size envelopes used to Europe, all franked with Palestine overprint issues, one cover to Germany with currency control labels. A fine and scarce group, comprising Dorfman types PR1 (2), PR4 (3) and PR8. (6). £300-400
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Formula Registration Envelopes. 1926 G Size envelope type PR8 used from Nablus to England bearing 1922 4m and 2p, redirected upon arrival, bearing the scarce G.B. label "GR / This Packet has been diverted from the usual route, as it appeared to be unsuitable for transfer by the Mail Apparatus", precancelled with a London c.d.s, an unusual use. Photo on Page 40. £100-150
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Formula Registration Envelopes. 1927-28 G Size envelopes used to Europe all franked with 1927-45 definitives, two insured with red labels applied. A fine group comprising types PR7 and PR10 (4). (5). £200-250
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