Bidspirit auction | Gaza and the region under

Gaza and the region under changing rule: lot of 5 items with revenue and postage stamps, from a page of an All-Palestine Government passport (1957) to a Civil Administration prescription - 5 items from Gaza and the region, each bearing the stamps of the authority of its time: Egypt in the Gaza Strip, the Kingdom of Jordan and the Israeli Civil Administration. 1. Page 9 (”Visas”) of an All-Palestine Government passport, with the background print ”ALL PALESTINE GOVERNMENT”: a travel permit of the Director of Passports, Cairo, from 10.3.1957, and the departure stamp of Kantara, 13.3.1957. On the back a block of 16 revenue stamps of 50 mils with a red overprint. 2. Jordan, 1961: a handwritten letter in Arabic with a pair of 15 fils revenue stamps of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. 3. A registered airmail cover with advice of receipt (AR) from Deir el-Balah to Gaza, April 1965, with 2 United Arab Republic stamps inscribed ”Palestine”, 35 and 20 mils (20th anniversary of the Arab League). 4. Gaza, 1966: a name-change certificate of the Department of Statistics and Publication, Administration of the Governor-General of the Gaza Strip, to be published in the official gazette of the Strip, with a 50 mils revenue stamp with a red overprint. 5. A prescription of the Health Department, Gaza Strip Region, Civil Administration, in Hebrew and Arabic, with Israeli revenue stamps of 50 shekels and 100 on the back. Folds, edge tears, filing holes and a cut corner on the passport page, exactly as photographed. Keywords: tax stamps / fee stamps / revenue stamps / All-Palestine Government / passport / Gaza / Deir el-Balah / Jordan / Civil Administration / Egyptian rule