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Lot of 6 postcards from Palestine (E.I.), the late Ottoman period, the British Mandate period and the period of Jordanian rule in Jerusalem. The cards carry the captions: JERUSALEM, DER GARTEN VON GETHSEMANE, LE JARDIN GETHSEMANE; PLATZ IN BETHLEHEM, A PLACE OF BETHLEHEM, UNE PLACE DE BETHLEEM; TIBERIAS, SEA OF GALILEE, FISHER MENS MENDING THEIR NETS; JERUSALEM, AIN-EL-SULTAN PRES DE JERICHO, NO. 24; and BETHANY, VILLAGE OF MARY AND MARTA published by PHOTO REX, G. SEMERDJIAN, JERUSALEM, HASHEMITE KINGDOM OF THE JORDAN. A further card is an uncaptioned real photo postcard. The reverses are printed CARTE POSTALE, POST CARD, POSTKARTE and WELTPOSTVEREIN, some of them undivided backs. Two of the cards passed through the post: one sent to Germany bearing the slogan handstamp FRANKIERE MIT DEN WOHLFAHRTSMARKEN FUR DIE DEUTSCHE NOTHILFE, and the second sent from Jerusalem on 2 July 1938 to BAD REICHENHALL in Germany, franked with a British Mandate stamp and cancelled with a Jerusalem postmark. Toned paper, age spots and light wear at the corners. Fair to good condition, exactly as photographed. Units in lot: 6