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RARE PALESTINE MANDATE POSTAL COVER • 1946 • SAMAKH → HAIFA • ARABIC HANDWRITTEN ADDRESS
DESCRIPTION (ENGLISH)
Original and scarce British Mandate Palestine postal cover, mailed in 1946 from Samakh (Samakh / Semakh) to Haifa, bearing authentic Palestine Mandate postage stamps, clear postal cancellations, and a fully handwritten address in Arabic.
Samakh was a historic town near the Sea of Galilee that ceased to exist after 1948, making genuine postal material originating from this location particularly rare. Commercially used covers from Samakh are far less common than mail from major cities such as Jerusalem, Jaffa, or Tel Aviv and are actively sought by advanced collectors.
The cover represents an authentic pre-1948 internal Palestine postal route, preserved with its original envelope, stamps, cancellations, and postal handling marks. This is not a philatelic souvenir, but a real piece of everyday correspondence from the final years of the British Mandate.
Highly desirable for collectors of:
Palestine Mandate postal history
Holy Land & Middle Eastern mail
Arabic manuscript correspondence
Disappeared towns and villages
Pre-State of Israel historical ephemera
A strong cross-collectible item combining historical significance, geographic rarity, and multilingual cultural context.
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