Lot 209 Used to Provisional Government, State of Israel: 1948 cover bearing 30c Theodore Roosevelt deep ultra and 1938 20c Garfield right blue green
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Lot 209 Used to Provisional Government, State of Israel: 1948 cover bearing 30c Theodore Roosevelt deep ultra and 1938 20c Garfield right blue green
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Used to Provisional Government, State of Israel: 1948 cover bearing 30c Theodore Roosevelt deep ultra and 1938 20c Garfield right blue green ,tied by three-line PALESTINE EMERGENCY DELIVERIES, INC. with a large boxed CANCELLED and an unclear date between PALESTINE and EMERGENCY DELIVERIES, INC. on air mail envelope, daily accounting handstamp 20286 handstamp, on reverse HAKIRYA receiving mark with a numerical date 10 8 1948 and balance of the cancel in Hebrew. (Scott 830, 825 ) Est. Cash Val. $500 – 1,000
From May 21, 1948 to July 28, 1948, when there were no postal relations between the U.S and Israel, Palestine Emergency Deliveries, Inc. was organized to ship mail as freight to Rome and then via Czech Airlines to Israel. Hakirya, the first independent Jewish military base in Israel, contained the government offices in Tel Aviv, the provisional capital of Israel at the time, until Jerusalem was declared the capital. The envelope is addressed to the Foreign Minister, Provisional Government, State of Israel.
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