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A block of four of the 1948 3 mils value from the first series of Israeli stamps. The postage stamps and postal history of Israel is a survey of the postage stamps issued by the state of Israel, and its postal history, since independence was proclaimed on May 14, 1948. The first postage stamps were issued two days later on May 16, 1948. [1]
From Israel's first stamp series, featuring a shekel from the first Jewish-Roman War. From May 16, 1948, stamps have been issued by the State of Israel by the Israel Postal Authority. The first set of stamps were entitled Doar Ivri (lit. "Hebrew postage"), as pictured, while later stamps were issued for Israel.
The first PNA stamps, printed by German state printer Bundesdruckerei Berlin, used the currency designation mils (which was the currency of the British Mandate of Palestine between 1927 and 1948). Israel protested over this issue, and all early stamps issued in 1994 had to be overprinted with fils (1/1000 of a Jordanian dinar), as illustrated ...
Ford F-1 truck used by Israel Postal Company in 1948-1949, now at Eretz Israel Museum, Philatelic Building Jerusalem Central Post Office, Jaffa Road, Jerusalem. The Israel Postal Company (Hebrew: דואר ישראל, romanized: Do'ar Yisra'el), [2] formerly called the Israel Postal Authority and currently doing business as Israel Post, is a government-owned corporation that provides postal ...
Otte Wallish (1906–1977) [1] ( Hebrew: אוטה וליש) was a Czech emigre to Palestine who established himself as a graphic designer and contributed to the symbolic self-representation of the Jewish state. Born in Znojmo, Wallish studied at the Vienna Art Academy before emigrating to Palestine in 1934. He played a significant role in ...
Stamp Israel 1948-3mil yellow.jpg 422 × 523; 57 KB. Categories: Philately of Israel. Postage stamps by country.
The history of postage stamps and postal history of Malaysia, a state in Southeast Asia that occupies the south of the Malay Peninsula and Sarawak and Sabah in the north Borneo, includes the development of postal services in these periods: [1] the sultanates as British protectorates (1874–1941, 1948–1957);
10th anniversary of first Ryukyu postage stamp, 1958. The first definitive stamps of the Ryukyu Islands were issued on July 1, 1948, and the first commemorative stamps were issued on February 12, 1951. The final Ryukyu Island stamp was a commemorative stamp issued on April 20, 1972, after which time stamps of Japan were valid.