The enclosed list of Prices Realized of our Nov. 2015 Auction again reveals another fine set of results, demonstrating a continuing strong and steady demand for better philately.
This our 43rd Auction is well balanced with many important offerings.
We start with the 2 Collections:
1948 DOAR IVRI – 5th part – Intrn. Large Gold
ISRAEL 1948 – Early Foreign Postal Links
Many specialties merit special attention, few of which are: Foreign Stamps, Turkish Forerunners, Palestine Stamps, 1948 Interim, Doar Ivri,
1st P. Dues, 1948 1st Festivals, Dreyfus Affair, JNF issues, Zionist Congresses, Anti-Semitism and Holocaust mail & Coins and Banknotes.
All the specialties are listed in the detailed Table of Contents.
Please FAX your final bids to avoid delays. Bidders are requested to include their FAX and telephone numbers and/or email addresses on their bid sheets.
For the convenience of our clients in the Metropolitan New York area
Dr. Arthur Groten is available to accept bids and consignments by phone
845-471-4179 or e-mail [email protected]
Consignments can also be submitted by Mr. Gary Theodore, office phone
732-229-5310, cell 732-996-0520 or e-mail [email protected],
Fax: 732-229-4805
With all good and sincere wishes,
YACOV TSACHOR - Director & Philatelist
ZVI ALONI - Philatelist
Body text of THE INTERNATIONAL LARGE GOLD DOAR IVRI COLLECTION – PART V
3 mils PERFORATED 10x10 (matching to above lot) Double complete TAB ROW of 10 (w/all 5 diff. tab types); all w/original gum, unmounted mint, folded lightly vert. in center between perfs, 2 stps minor gum fold at base of tabs & light hum wrinkles as expected for such a large multiple, overall a vf Rarity & Top Exhibition Piece, Ba $32,000++
The above 2 lots together both items emanate from the same sheet #046 bought by M. Brisker at the Kfar Yona Postal Agency. The sheet was split in the 1950's by a collector. The Largest Recorded Multiples of the 3m perf 10x10; u/m & overall in vf condition, no doubt 1 of the most important Exhibition pages of a Doar Ivri and/or Israeli collections, ex Arthur Cohen, Dr. Steve Rothman & Selwyn Uria, certif Tsachor - Aloni
EARLY FLIGHTS INCOMING: 21.V.48 Registered air mail cv Prag to TLV (the David correspondence) transit via Haifa 27.5.48 pmk, cv brought to Haifa by the 26.5.48 Czech CSA flight; vert centerfold & small closed tear at base, fine & Rare, see photo IFPL p. 55, certif Tsachor - Aloni
18.5.48 (dated message) stampless ppc (of Stockholm) endorsed "Par Avion & via Paris" (family corresp.) flown to Israel by Air France plane that landed in Haifa on May 29, marked upon arrival "T" & "To Pay 15 Mils" (double domestic pc rate rounded to match the existing stp denom.). Taxed 15m 1st P. Dues (#J2 + J3) tied by pmk HAIFA 1.6.1948 - First day of use of the 1st P.D. in Haifa; minute toning o/w vf & Rare, certif Muentz & Tsachor - Aloni
Official 2nd CSA Flight, the 1st company to have flights to Israel, 28.5.48 regist air mail cv ex Moscow arrived at Haifa with the 2nd June Flight, Moscow meter cancel & tax cachet - this ignored upon arrival TEL AVIV 3.6.1948 pmk & the Nat. Loan cachet - this last on face; vf
OUTGOING: commerc air mail cv Haifa to London carried by the Czech CSA plane leaving Haifa 3.6.48 (endorsed at left "Capt.") posted by the courier in Prag 4.6.48 (frank Czech 6kcs stps) as an air mail letter to London; small tear at top o/w vf outgoing courier cv. Most interesting contents in English, describing War conditions, Palestine on top of stationery page changed to "State of Israel"
3 cvs - 2nd Official Flights, Registered: a) Israel - Jugoslavia, HAIFA 15.6.1948 tying 95m franking (#4 + 4 x #5 - 2 tabbed) double rate registered, Zagreb 20.VI.48; b) Israel - USA, cv registered at TLV 10.6.1948, left Haifa w/Air France 17.6.48 to Paris, N. York arrival 20 June 1948; c) Israel - Liechtenstein, frank 55m (#4 tab & 2x #5 - 1 tabbed) pmkd HAIFA 28.6.1948, Vaduz arrival 3 JUL 48; vf (x3)
24 November 1948 - Opening of Lydda Airport, regist air mail cv franked 95m D. Ivri stps to the USA, tied by LYDDA AERODROME 24 11 1948 pmks, regist label TEL AVIV crossed out & LOD added in Hebrew manuscript, CSA (Czech Co.) "Best Wishes..." cachet for the Opening of Lydda on front, cv originated in TLV, 24.11.48 pmk on back forwarded to Lydda where it was registered & stps pmkd, arrival New York 5 & 6 Dec. 48 pmks, censored, vf & Rare, the only recorded regist cv w/Lod R label on the Opening Day, signed Tsachor - Aloni
EARLY SURFACE MAIL
4 MY 48 commerc cv TLV to Wien, franked 25m Palestine stps (#93 & 2x #97) tied by TEL AVIV Mandate pmks, carried on the last voyage of SS Kedma carrying the last mail from Palestine under British Rule, departing Haifa 6 May 1948, cv censored in Austria, arrival mark - office dater 2 June 48 on front; vf & scarce, signed Tsachor - Aloni
10.IV.48 regist surface mail cv Bern - Switz. to Tiberias frank 1.20Fr Swiss stps, back w/TIBERIAS 18 MY 48 double circle Palestine pmk, cv carried on the American vessel SS Marine Carp arrived in Haifa on 17 May 1948; vf & Rare Very Early Incoming Mail to Israel, see photo IFPL p. 34
