Auction No 48
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Lot 2
Jaffa.
1868 Palestine JAFFA Egypt Interposal Seal.
Petach Tikva Jewish colony 1909 issue stamp, denominated 14 Para (Ba #J-1), MH & OG. This adhesive was used as a surcharge applied to mail, for the forwarding fee to the Austrian post office in Jaffa; the Austrian post in the Holyland exclusively handled the mail from the Jewish colonies and settlements. The stamp was in use for only a year, between 1909-1910, owing to the disapproval of the Ottoman Turkish authorities who ordered its usage stopped.
Lot 4
Jerusalem.
Jerusalem, Type 5, 1 August (years) Wrapper 10pa / 5f, Austrian in Turkey.
Lot 5
Jaffa.
1894 pre-stamped 10 Kr. stationery letter-card (Bale: 132) 1Pia cancelled with Jeaffa one ring CDS (Bale: 102) to Alexandria.
Lot 6
Jerusalem.
1894 pre-stamped stationery letter-card (Bale: 134) 1Pia cancelled with Jerusalem Pmk (Bale: 128,129) to Hagen west Germany
Lot 7
Jaffa.
Jaffa, Type 4, 8 Sep 04 Jerusalem Arrival Postmark, Type 5, 9 Sep 04 UPU, Austrian Offices in Crete. VF
Ottoman Empire, Lebanon, 1864
This captivating folded letter was posted from Beirut to Messieurs Isaac de Camondo & Co. in Constantinople (Istanbul). The cover is franked with two France, 1862 Napoleon III stamps—10c brown and 40c orange (Sc. 25, 27) —each cancelled with the numeral dot cancels used in Beirut at the time.
The cover itself bears several important markings: the sender's oval cachet for Aron Zadid Levi / Beyrouth, a Beirut double-ring postmark, and a boxed "PD" (Paid) mark on the front. The arrival is confirmed with a double-ring postmark on the reverse, dated August 24, 1854.
Addressed in three languages—Aramaic, Arabic, and French—the letter was directed to Messieurs Isaac de Camondo & Co., indicating it was sent to Isaac de Camondo and his business associates.
Interestingly, Isaac de Camondo (1851-1911), a French banker and art collector of Jewish descent, was instrumental in connecting the worlds of finance and art in the late 19th century.
He was a major patron of the arts, owning works by Degas, Monet, and Cézanne, and his impressive collection was eventually donated to the Louvre, enriching the museum's holdings of Impressionist masterpieces.
Lot 9
Jaffa.
1910 pre-stamped postcard, 10Ce. /10 Pf, posted by the German Post Office in Jaffa to a bank branch in Vienna. It features a distinctive double-clock handstamp, with the March 12 date included in the design, along with the text “Prokurist / Kontroller / Korrespondent / Erledigt am”, indicating official processing.
1900, Lot of 6 stamps all used PMK JAFFA German post-MiNr: 40-45 vf.
Lot 10
Jerusalem.
1905 German post office, receipt for receiving a postal item with a rectangular purple Jerusalem stamp.
1913, March 19: Cover franked with a pair and a single 2k green, 10 para red overprint, and 10k blue with 1 pia red overprint, all tied by Jaffa ROPiT CDS in violet. (Bale # 615) The cover shows multiple transit ROPiT cancellations and was addressed to the new settlement of Yunov, near Hebron.
The cover has been opened for exhibition to show both sides, revealing all markings and cancellations.
Lot 12
Safed
1898, Dec. 11th: Havatzeleth Hebrew newspaper, Issue No. 10, mailed at the newspaper rate in Palestine. It bears a blue revenue stamp, tied by the printing, and a 5 ci. green overprinted stamp, cancelled by the Jerusalem Ottoman post office. Addressed to Mr. H. Yosef Geiger, Safed (Syrian).
The "Yerusalem" stamp is listed in the Bale catalog as No. 774.