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Defence forces parachute at sunset
This Palphot 8654 card was bought in 1974 but never mailed. It has minor edge and corner abrasions on front, but significantly aged reverse, otherwise unmarked. Grade: 3
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Jerusalem, Mea Shearim Quarter
Card was mailed in 1979. Stamp is there, and the postmark is legible. Card itself has minor postal creasing but is generally in great condition. Grade: 1
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Caesaria
This Palphot 3025 card (Dorfzaun) was mailed in 1999–the stamp is there and the postmark is mostly legible. Front has edge and corner abrasions and postal creasing. Grade: 3
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Jerusalem, Dome of the Rock
Card dates from 1993 though of course it could have been much earlier. A letter completely fills the reverse and the card was later mailed in an envelope so there was no stamp. Front has barely significant edge and corner abrasions. Grade: 4
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Sunrise on the Dead Sea
Unused Palphot 6579 card bought in 1974. Front is in great condition; reverse is unmarked but has begun to age gently. Grade: 1
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Kibbutz Ein Harod Ichud
Card by Palphot 9574 was mailed in 1970 but used a postage meter. Front corners show minor postal creasing. Reverse is normal for a mailed card of that time. Grade: 3
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Tel-Aviv, seen from Jaffa
This Palphot 7903 card was bought in 1974 and never mailed. View is from the Shalom Observatory. Card would be “as-new” except for mildly aging reverse. Grade: 1
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Bethlehem, The Star of Bethlehem
This unused Endroit Palphot 8235 card dates from about 1974. Quite possibly the identical card is being sold at the same place right now. Grade: 1
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Mt. Moshe, Jebl Musa, Mt. Sinai
Unmailed Palphot 8742 card from 1974, in as-new condition apart from beginnings of age on reverse. Grade: 1
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Qumran, view towards Dead Sea
Another 1974 card, Palphot 61, Jericho and Jordan Valley, never mailed and in outstanding condition. Grade: 1
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Banias, one source of River Jordan
Caption doesn’t reveal the major political statement made by the photograph. This unused 1974 Palphot 9275 card has abrasions on front, and the reverse is significantly stained. Grade: 5
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Jerusalem, Israeli troops at Wailing Wall
Unmailed Palphot 8324 card from 1974, great condition on the front, and gently aged on the reverse. Grade: 1
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Amphibian tank produced in USSR
This 1974 Isranof card was never mailed. It has very minor edge and corner abrasions on front. Reverse is basically perfect. Grade: 2
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Jerusalem, Golden Gate
Mid-70s Colorama 1117 card, unused, as-new. Grade: 1
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Jerusalem, Old City at night, Damascus Gate
Never-mailed Palphot 9946 card from mid-70s, as-new. Grade: 1
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Jerusalem, Citadel and Jaffa Gate
This Palphot 9436 card from 1974 was never mailed and is still in terrific condition. Grade: 1
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Israel soldiers at Suez Canal
Two Palphot 8307 cards are available, 1974 vintage. One is unused and as-new (Grade: 1, $7.50). The other was mailed and does have the stamp, but the card was then taped (probably on an office board) and when tape was removed it took postmark and much of the message with it. Also looks like it was stapled (Grade: 5, $2).
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MIG 21 fighter bomber
If there were “lines” on this 1974 Palphot 8746 card, you could read between them, though you do need a sense of history. Unused, minor edge abrasions on front, and beginning to age a bit on reverse. Grade: 2
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Women Military Police
Yet another 1974 unused card, Isranof 797, as-new condition. Grade: 1
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Jerusalem, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Chapel of the Angel
This 1974 Palphot 9379 postcard is unused and in great shape on the front but yellowed a bit more than usual on reverse. Grade: 2
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Jerusalem, El Aqsa Mosque
This 1974 Palphot 9377 vintage postcard is in superb condition. Unused. Grade: 1
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Bethlehem, entrance to Holy Manger
Never mailed mid-70s Colorama 1016 card of the creche, in as-new condition. Grade: 1
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Moshe Dayan
At the time this card was bought (mid-1970s), he was the Israeli Minister of Defence. Unused, Grade: 1
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Jerusalem, Old City inside Damascus Gate
Card mailed in mid-1970s with stamp and partly legible postmark. Grade: 2
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Jerusalem Hilton
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Tel Aviv, Bird’s Eye View of the Marina
This card was mailed in 2010 from Slovenia (not Israel), with stamp and full postmark. The writer was definitely in a good mood. Grade: 3
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Tel-Aviv, Azrieli Observatory
This 4-5/8″ x 6-5/8″ card was mailed from Kiev in the Ukraine (not Israel!) in 2011, with two stamps and full postmarks. Grade: 3
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Jerusalem, River Jordan
Everything about the current Middle East dilemma captured in one unused card. The caption on the front is as you see, Jerusalem. The card was published by The Oriental Commercial Bureau of Port Said (Egypt). And the reverse caption identifies the location as Palestine. What else can we say? Grade: 3
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Jerusalem, Ecce Homo Arch
Unused Edition Fr. Vester & Co. card, album marks on corners and minor writing on the reverse. Grade: 3.
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Jerusalem from the North
Unused Edition Fr. Vester & Co., No. 20 (and 336018). Grade: 2
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Jerusalem, Famous Mosque of Omar
Unused card produced for The American Export Lines on behalf of “The Four Aces,” four vessels offering a 43-Day Yankee Cruise to the Mediterranean (SS. Excalibur, SS. Exochorda, SS. Exeter, and SS. Excambion). Exceptionally, we reproduce here, from Wikipedia, what it says about one of those ships: “SS Exochorda, a 473-foot, 14,500-ton cargo liner in service with American Export Lines from 1948 to 1959. A member of the line’s post-war quartet of ships, “4 Aces“, Exochorda sailed regularly from New York on a Mediterranean route. Originally built in 1944 as the military attack transport USS Dauphin (APA-97), the ship was extensively refurbished prior to her service as a passenger-cargo liner. Following her service as a cruise liner, the vessel served as the floating dormitory ship SS Stevens for the students of Stevens Institute of Technology, a technological university, in Hoboken, NJ. At the end of her service life she was scrapped, in 1979.” These are things we learn when we scan and enter postcards. Grade: 1
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Akko (Acre) lighthouse
Mailed from Netherlands (not Israel!) in 2011, with stamp and hard-to-read postmark. Grade: 3
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Multiple views and map
Mailed in 2012 with three stamps and blurred postmark. Grade: 2
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The Holy Land (map)
Mailed in 2012, this card has two large stamps that have not been cancelled. Grade: 4
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Widerness (sic) of Judea and Olivet Range
This unused “Edition Vester & Co. Nr. 59” card predates Israel, of course. Grade: 2
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Bethlehem, Grotto of the Nativity, The Manger
Unused, aged, vintage postcard 3041 whose caption on the front is as you see. On the back, it’s printed “POST CARD Palestine” with additional German caption and L & L C. attribution. Grade: 2
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Bethlehem, Field of the Shepherds and the Milk Grotto
Unused, aged, vintage postcard 3042 whose caption on the front is as you see. On the back, it’s printed “POST CARD Palestine” with additional German caption and L & L C. attribution. Grade: 2
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Map
Mailed in 2013, with stamp and postmark. Grade: 1
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Forbidden to Advertise
An ad card, all in Hebrew, and printed like this. Mailed in 2013 with two stamps and postmark. Grade: 1