Bidspirit auction | Tel Aviv 50th anniversary, 1959:

Tel Aviv 50th anniversary, 1959: lot of 26 day of issue covers signed by personalities, produced by the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium, including Izhak Olshan, Aharon Remez, Dan Tolkowsky, Moshe Feldenkrais and Joseph Burg; fewer than 200 sets were made - Lot of 26 covers from a set of 40 special covers produced by the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium (HERZLIA HEBREW GYMNASIUM), Tel Aviv, for collectors of the city of Tel Aviv; each cover is signed by a graduate of the school who reached a key position or by a figure from the history of the city. Fewer than 200 sets were made. Each cover bears the 120 prutot Tel Aviv jubilee stamp with tab, a Tel Aviv-Yafo postmark 4.5.1959 and a day of issue cachet, a print of the bust of Meir Dizengoff, first mayor of Tel Aviv, and the cachet of the Gymnasium, with the signer's name and title printed below. The signers: Ahuza Weiss, painter, the first girl born in Tel Aviv; Aluf Dan Tolkowsky, former Chief of the Israel Air Force; Dr. Yaakov Timnat, physicist; Aluf Shmuel Tankus, Chief of the Israel Navy; Binyamin Tamuz, sculptor, writer and critic; Meir Sherman, former Economic Minister to the United States and Director General of 'Paz'; Aluf Aharon Remez, first Chief of the Israel Air Force; Uri Qesari, critic and writer; Izhak Olshan, President of the Supreme Court (two covers); Mati Meged, author and playwright; Batia Lanzet, actress of the Cameri Theatre; Shraga Friedman, Habima actor; Katriel Katz, Secretary of the Government; Raphael Klatzkin, Habima actor; Izhar Harari, member of the Knesset; Yehudith Hararit and Eliahu Brisker, founders of Tel Aviv; Dr. Moshe Feldenkreis (Feldenkrais), personal physician of David Ben Gurion; Abba Elchanani, architect; Dr. Joseph Burg, Minister of Social Welfare; Amos Ben-Gurion, Deputy Chief of the Israel Police; Aluf Mishne M. Ben Gal, President of the Military Court of Appeals; Aluf Ephraim Ben-Arzi; Aharon Amir, poet and author; Dr. Moshe Avidor, Director General of the Ministry of Education and Culture. Condition: exactly as photographed. Units in lot: 26