Mixed Mandate & Interim franking with latest known used coil stamp: 12 MAY 1948 postmarked local HAIFA express cover sent to northern district engineer, franked 50m at the period postage rate for 10m letter + 40m express fee, using block of 4x10m Ramat Gan interim stamps (Ba #26) + 1x 10m Mandate pictorial vending machine 'regular' coil stamp with 14 horizontal perforation holes (Ba #97) & tied by 3x strikes of the interim dateless postmark + 2x backstamps of the HADAR HACARMEL branch office postmark (GD-100); cut open at left.

Although Mandate stamps stopped being sold over the counter from 2 May at the branch and town post offices, the fact that it's a coil stamp underscores the findings of this cataloguer, that coil stamps were in use well after the latest recorded date of their order (#2450/3 of 30 July 1946) as listed in the Crown Agents Requisition Books by Norman Collins, which has now been shown to be incomplete. This may be the latest known use of a Mandate coil stamp prior to Israel's independence & the demonetization of Mandate stamps on 15 May 1948.


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