U.S. and Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
June 12-13, 2018

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Lot #805
ISRAEL Flight Covers
1948 (20 June) registered and flown cover from Tel Aviv to New York, franked with Doar Ivri 15m (2) and 50m, with airmail label and flight handstamp, arrival backstamp June 27, 1948, cover wear, fine
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Lot #806
ISRAEL Flight Covers
1948 PEDI (PALESTINE EMERGENCY DELIVERY, INC.) cancel on Airletter sheet from Chicago to Haifa on FIRST FLIGHT, MAY 21, 1948, with additional hand cancel "FIRST FLIGHT TO ISRAEL" and circular handstamp "CESKOLOVENSKE AEROLINE" on front. (Number 696), v.f., Retail $500
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Lot #807
ISRAEL Flight Covers
1948 PEDI (PALESTINE EMERGENCY DELIVERY, INC.), selection of 16 covers from USA to Israel, various frankings, variety of markings including FIRST FLIGHT, triple and double rates, mixed condition, fine-v.f., Retail $1,250
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Lot #808
ISRAEL Flight Covers
1949-50 three flown covers from the United States to Israel, variety of markings and frankings, with arrival pmks
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Lot #809
ISRAEL Flight Covers
1955-68 selection of four "disaster covers", including with Bulgaria 1955 (ELAL Flight 402 was an international passenger flight from London to Tel Aviv via Vienna and Istanbul. On July 27, 1955, the flight, operated by a Lockheed Constellation registered as 4X-AKC, strayed into Bulgarian airspace and was shot down by two Bulgarian MiG-15 jet fighters and crashed near Petrich, Bulgaria), Ankara 1961 (2) and London 1968, all addressed to Israel, mixed condition
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