The Ottoman Postal Service – 2 Items of Meah She'arim, Jerusalem, Postmark No. 1 – Including and Extremely Rare ...

The Ottoman Postal Service – 2 Items of Meah She'arim, Jerusalem, Postmark No. 1 – Including and Extremely Rare Postmark of Registered Mail
Postmark of Meah Shearim No. 1, 1917 – registered mail with a postmark of RC4 [in Collins, only six envelopes are listed and the one before us is not among them! – No. 7726]. Extremely rare!
A letter sent from Meah She'arim, Jerusalem to Belgium – two Ottoman postage stamps of 1 piaster each with an addition of 20 Para as war fee [World War I] Postmarked by the postmark of Meah Shea'rim No. 1, on 2.5.1917. Various censor stamps including one of the Austrian Censor. On the reverse side, a postmark of Istanbul.
Postmark of Meah Shearim No. 1, 1915 – a letter sent by Rabbi Yitzchak Danzig, one of the rabbis of Meah Shearim – most likely, an autograph.
The letter was sent from Meah Shearim, Jerusalem to Copenhagen, Denmark – postage stamp of 20 Para with an addition of 20 Para as war fee [World War I. Postmarked by the postmark of Meah Shea'rim No. 1, on 5.1915. Postmark of Beirut on the reverse side and a nice stamp of the censor.
Rabbi Yitzchak Danzig was one of the leading rabbis of Meah She'arim. He used to give sermons in a yeshiva in Meah She'arim and a synagogue in Zichron Moshe. He is buried on the Mount of Olives.