At the rate they were able to work they would not meet their deadline. The workers soon realized that the perforating would go too slowly with this single machine. Here are some of the stamps which are perforated 11: The original perforating machine was " a small and primitive contrivance, which had to be set in motion by pedals, but which could do the job." It was a perf 11 machine.
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As Haaretz was a newspaper, it was decided that it was both too public and full of reporters to ensure that there would be no leaks to the British.
The secrecy was necessary as the preparation of the stamps was illegal under British rule, and the British had not completely vacated the country yet. The cost of 5 British Pounds in United States Dollars today is 5.53 according to the Open Exchange Rates, compared to yesterday, the exchange rate decreased by -0.04 (by -0.0004). The house had been used by the Hagana after they drove out the Palestine Police. To give some background, a printing press was moved under cover of darkness from the Newspaper Haaretz offices to a 2 story house in the old Templar Colony of Sarona (Sarona has an interesting history, you can read about it in this article on Wikipedia ). As we have some nice perforation varieties in our Sale 30, I was interested in the perforating part of the process as Aronsohn described it. In the article the author paints the picture of the difficult conditions under which the first stamps of Israel were designed, test printed, printed and perforated.
I read somewhere that Stanley Gibbons magazine had reprinted the article and I am certain others have as well. Mail from UK to overseas DOES not go by size, like inland mail within UK, it. I located it in issue #2 of "The Holyland Philatelist" from December of 1954. Postcard postage to U.S.A and rest of world is currently 0.62p, to Europe 0.56p. Mail / Montreal / 23 / 6 / 18 ds with another strike alongside, Toronto bs of. Aronsohn, Manager Haaretz Printing Press, Tel Aviv. This is mostl certainly the largest airmail auction David Feldman has had. I recommend the article "I Printed Israel's First Stamps" by R.
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