Bidspirit auction | Israel: lot of 11 first


Israel: lot of 11 first flight and special flight covers, 1957-1974, including the threefold transport Quneitra-Sharm esh-Sheikh on the opening day of the Desert Inn post office 1970, the first postal flight from the renamed Ben-Gurion Airport 1974 and the TWA Jetstream first flights, 1957 - Lot of 11 flight covers, most of them registered and sent by air mail: 1. TWA Jetstream first flight Lydda-New York, flight 825, 31.10.1957, registered, with the 400 prutot Bezalel jubilee stamp with tab; 2. TWA Jetstream first flight Lydda-Rome, flight 825, 31.10.1957, registered, with a RETOUR A L'EXPEDITEUR handstamp; 3. El Al Britannia first flight Lod-Paris, 22.12.1957, registered; 4. El Al Britannia inaugural flight to New York, 22.12.1957, with the 300 prutot stamp with tab; 5. Alitalia DC-7C first flight Lydda-Rome, flight 499, 2.11.1958, registered, with an À L'ENVOYEUR handstamp; 6. BEA Comet 4B first flight Lod-England, 1.4.1960, registered express aerogramme, with return to sender handstamps; 7. day of issue flight of the air mail stamps, Elat-Montreal, 13.2.1963, with the owl stamp with tab, registered, with a Montreal arrival postmark; 8. special flight Borghorst-Tel Aviv for the stamp exhibition marking 20 years of the State of Israel, 2.6.1968, with German stamps and a special postmark, registered; 9. threefold transport (Arkia flight, Egged bus and courier) Quneitra-Sharm esh-Sheikh, first day of the opening of the post office in the Desert Inn caravan, 29.6.1970, Military Administration, with IDF postmarks, registered in Quneitra; 10. El Al inaugural flight Lod-Montreal, 28.3.1971, registered; 11. Arkia, the first postal flight to Haifa from Lod airport after it was renamed Ben-Gurion Airport, 14.7.1974, registered. Some covers bear arrival postmarks on the back. Condition: exactly as photographed. Units in lot: 11