1948 South African Box 18 emergency a/m to Israel via
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"Box 18 Johannesburg" emergency mail: undated Aronowitz family correspondence cover from JOHANNESBURG (South Africa) to TEL AVIV "Palestine"; posted unstamped within an envelope to "Box 18" JOHANNESBURG with required postage fee enclosed within, whereupon removed from outer envelope & sent via the South African Zionist Federation's airmail service to Palestine (parcels of letters sent as "Air Freight" on Pan African Air Charter airlines [PAAC] via Rhodesia-Kenya-Khartoum-Wadi Halfa (Sudan)-Aden(!) to HAIFA; established late April); cover marked by the service's cachet "Per Postal Communication | Box 18 Johannesburg" on front and vertically at right side; at HAIFA transferred to the Peltours mail operation which stamped it with their oval business "Pel" Palestine & Egypt Lloyd Ltd. | PELTOURS | Tel-Aviv cachet & posted it in TEL AVIV with a 10m Doar Ivri frank affixed (this pre-paid by sender), tied by 11-8-1948 head post office postmark. Slit open at top (the sealed side may be the result of the service's removal of the enclosed payment); the notation "7" next to "Tel Aviv denotes that payment for 7 such letters was made. Although postal relations between many countries and Israel resumed by August, this special airmail service continued until 13 September as only then South Africa resumed airmail services with Israel.
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This lot is being offered in a buy or bid sale format, whose initial buyout price is: $300. This price will rise by about 5-10% for every new bid received once the bid level passes the midway mark between the starting bid price and the initial buyout price. In such cases please check the latest buyout price on our homesite or contact us.
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Product Tags: Israeli, South African, Sudanese, Philately - Postal Covers, 1948 Israel: emergency postal links and Postal History from Israel, South Africa, Sudan, and from 1947-49 Israel War of Independence, South Africa - National Party/Apartheid era, 20th Century, 1940s, 1945-1949 Postwar era, which are Philately - Air Mail, Philately - Significant Route, Philately - significant cachets & postal markings, Philately - Stampless Mail
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This lot is being offered in a buy or bid sale format, whose initial buyout price is: $300. This price will rise by about 5-10% for every new bid received once the bid level passes the midway mark between the starting bid price and the initial buyout price. In such cases please check the latest buyout price on our homesite or contact us.
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Product Tags: Israeli, South African, Sudanese, Philately - Postal Covers, 1948 Israel: emergency postal links and Postal History from Israel, South Africa, Sudan, and from 1947-49 Israel War of Independence, South Africa - National Party/Apartheid era, 20th Century, 1940s, 1945-1949 Postwar era, which are Philately - Air Mail, Philately - Significant Route, Philately - significant cachets & postal markings, Philately - Stampless Mail
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