Auction #4 World Coins & Medals + Specialized Holyland Postal History

1948 early foreign postal links: 14 JU 48 airmail cover ex NATHANYA to BUDAPEST franked 40m at airmail rate to Europe using block 4x 10m Doar Ivri Ba3 and tied by reintroduced Mandate NATHANYA pmk (Proud D2/Dorf-2); arrived 18 VI 48 and reached address on the 19th. The cover was flown by Czechoslovak Airlines on 15 June, flying via Haifa (as Lydda not operational until Sept. 1948)-Athens-Rome-Prague; CSA opened the Israel-Hungary postal route less than a week earlier, on June 9th. Opened at bottom, left edge creases; preserved on original exhibition mount. The Israeli trilingual pmk entered local use on 1 July.
1948 Übergangszeit & frühe israelische Postgeschichte
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