Bidspirit auction | Five Zionist postal and paper

Five Zionist postal and paper items spanning 1935 to 1954. A printed cover for the first day of the Jewish postal service and the last day of postal service under the British Mandate, illustrated with Rachel's Tomb and captioned in Hebrew and English, franked with Palestine stamps and Doar Ivri stamps and cancelled Tel Aviv 16.5.1948, Iyar 5708. A second cover bearing a pair of 5 mil Doar Ivri stamps, a Jerusalem cancellation of 17.8.1949 and a boxed handstamp of the World Mizrachi Organisation, alongside a portrait of Herzl in blue and the verse If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. A card from the founding convention of the New Zionist Organisation, the First Congress at Vienna, 9 Elul 5695, 7 September 1935, illustrated with a hand grasping a menorah and breaking a chain. A card illustrated with the figure of Herzl looking out over a harbour and a city plan, captioned If you will it, it is no dream, from Goldberg's Press, Jerusalem. A pocket booklet in English, Theodor Herzl, issued by the Jewish National Fund in Jerusalem on the fiftieth anniversary of his death, 20 Tammuz 5714, 21 July 1954, reviewing Herzl's connection with the Jewish National Fund, the Golden Book, the purchase of the Ben Shemen and Hulda lands and the Blue Box. Lot details exactly as photographed. Units in lot: 5