Bidspirit auction | Israel: lot of 12 first

Israel: lot of 12 first flight and special flight covers, 1954-1964, including KLM Lod-Amsterdam 1954, the El Al Boeing 707 first flight to New York 1961 and the special flight Nazareth-Jerusalem for the pilgrimage of Pope Paul VI, 1964 - Lot of 12 Israeli flight covers, most of them registered and sent by air mail, with Israeli stamps: 1. KLM, Lod-Amsterdam, 6.4.1954, registered, with a Schiphol arrival postmark; 2. Arkia special flight to the aviation exhibition, Elat-Tel Aviv, 23.9.1956, registered, issued by the Aero Club of Israel; 3. Alitalia first flight Lydda-Rome, 3.11.1957, registered, with a Roma Ciampino arrival postmark; 4. Arkia first flight Beer Sheva-Elat, 9.9.1958, registered; 5. express, the first direct mail despatch from Lod airport to New York, 15.2.1959; 6. the first Britannia flight Lydda-Brussels, 1.4.1959, registered, with arrival and RETOUR handstamps; 7. El Al special flight Lydda-Istanbul, 17.5.1959, registered; 8. flight to the INTERPOSTA stamp exhibition, Lod-Hamburg, 21.5.1959, registered; 9. flight LY 211 Lod-Brussels on the day of issue of the ten years of civil aviation stamp, 22.7.1959, registered; 10. El Al flight to the SICILIA 59 stamp exhibition, Lod-Palermo, 15.10.1959, registered; 11. El Al Boeing 707 first flight Lod-New York, 8.1.1961, registered, with an Idlewild arrival postmark; 12. special flight Nazareth-Jerusalem for the pilgrimage of Pope Paul VI, 5.1.1964, registered. Some covers bear arrival postmarks on the back. Condition: exactly as photographed. Units in lot: 12