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

Egyptian "No Service" mail sent to Israel: 23-7-1956 a/m cv ex ALEXANDRIA to SOUTH AMBLTON England whose sender & addressee details erroniously misplaced on front - franked 52m & dispatched from ALEX., but as sender's name "Esmaiel" & appears in addressee field, Egy. PO treated it as "Israel", censored it (K-Type-7, #80) & marked "no relaciones" + "retour" (red manuscript), indicating address in r/a field (the actual intended address, in pencil); dispatched to UK where sender's name again misunderstood as "Israel" and erroniously re-routed there & not locally delivered as intended; b/s 17-8-56 TLV arr. Unusually not censored in Isr. Rare instance of Egyptian mail reaching Israel; only one known Egy.-UK-Isr.
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