Stamps and covers from the Estate of the late Menachem Niv

Jerusalem 1948 military mail town commander 4.5.48 cover. VF & rare!!

Jerusalem 1948, flown cover out of besieged city by military plane forwarded by army post KBA 217 with 10m Doar Ivri stamp tied by Tel-Aviv 30.5.48 pmk, at appr left clearance password "Maria" certification by Muentz. VF & rare!!

Israel 1948 INTERIM JERUSALEM 3rd local issue brown "Gimel", half sheet of 10 MNH stamps, light crease on margins. VF & rare!!

Israel Jerusalem 1948 cover franked with Jerusalem 10 m 1st local issue tied by 27.6.48 Tel-Aviv pmk, unaccepted as postage, taxed by 20 m postage due at 30.6.48 VF & rare!!

Jerusalem Ottoman bank cover to Tel-Aviv with mixed franking of 3 mandate 2m pictorial and one 5 m of the 2nd local issue tied by 2 M. Ha'am pmk, Jerusalem, line dater 12 May 1948, certification by Muentz. VF & extremely rare!!

Jerusalem 1948 French consular 6Fr. Ovpt with 20 m tied by 2 pmk Jerusalem postes francaises 3 jul 48, arrival pmk on back Paris tri no.1 depart at 13.7.48, cover sent from J perrot consulat general de France Jerusalem to P Perrot at France. VF & extremely rare!!

Jerusalem 1948 French consular 20m on 6Fr. Stamp airmail cover to France with arrival pmk paris tri no.1 depart at 19.7.48 on front 2 vt pmk Jerusalem/ Postes Francaise, 13 JUL 48. VF & extremely rare!!

Israel 1948 INTERIM JERUSALEM 3rd local issue brown "Gimel" full sheet of 20 MNH stamps # 0848, light gum faults on margins, bale cr $ 3250. VF & extremely rare!!

Jerusalem 10 mils OTSAR Ha"AM revenue stamp tied to cover addressed to Herzliya, by Israeli trilingual postmark Jerusalem 1. 21.7.1948 the item presumably went through the mail as other recorded examples of this franking were accepted in Tel-Aviv. Apart from a few trains in very good condition. VERY RARE as OTSAR Ha"AM revenues are very seldom offered as accepted for regular postage. Certificate by Y. Tsachor, as well as signed in pencil on...

Jerusalem 1948 The OLD CITY 2nd "WALL" postmark, a cover brought from the old city Jewish quarter in May 1948, and then delivered by the Minhelet Ha'am post tying with 2X5 m 2nd Issue, at first it was cancelled in the Jewish quarter with the Abulafia second wall postmark, then it was brought to the new city, cancelled at the sorting office with the Rosette postmark as transit, VF & Rarity. Please see similar cover at Jerusalem & Safed...

Jerusalem, 1948 siege cover, stampless from the besieged Mount Scopus in French "Via the Red Cross", with RED CROSS cachet and trilingual Israeli postmark Jerusalem1. to the main post office in the jewish part of Jerusalem arrival postmark 14.9.1948, Vertically creased in center with small tears on top, traces of brown glue & two rubbed spots at lower left. Certificate by Muentz, similar item sold a few years ago for $ 7440. VF &...

Safed- unadopted Essay cover with stp imprint in black VF.