1924, from Jerusalem to Denver Colorado USA, registered cover
franked with Mandate Palestine trilingual overprinted issues
including
1924, from Jerusalem to Denver Colorado USA, registered cover
franked with Mandate Palestine trilingual overprinted issues
including vertical pair 3 mils blue and two 1 piastre values all
with black PALESINTA opt, all tied by circular JERUSALEM 15 MR 24
postmarks, blue and white registration label JERUSALEM No 6289 at
top right, large boxed violet instructional marking POST &
TELEGRAPHS PALESTINE ACCOUNTED BRANCH 15 MAR 1924, indicating
internal registry fee accounting and administrative handling by
Mandate postal authorities, reverse with multiple registered
transit backstamps including NEW YORK N Y REGY DIV 3 29 1924 and
DENVER COLO APR 1 1924, addressed to Charles L Smith, cover shows
full routing via New York and regional sorting centers, sent during
the British Mandate administration following the collapse of
Ottoman rule, this period marked the intensification of Jewish
immigration and rising tensions under British governance, sent
during the politically fragile early years of the British Mandate
in Palestine, shortly before the start of the Fourth Aliyah, a
period marked by rising Jewish immigration and growing Arab
opposition, reflecting British efforts to systematize
administrative and fiscal control in the territory under increasing
social tension, rare early registered mail to the US showing both
fiscal and administrative postal control under League of Nations
Mandate, ex Kugel, XF! Estimate 400€.
