ONLY KNOWN Israeli Registered Letter LATE FEE on printed matter airmail: applied to 7 Dec 1950 postmarked large 'provisional government' postal stationary printed matter registered air mail envelope, sent from the General Post Office JERUSALEM to BROOKLYN New York, franked 320pr at the FA-2a postage period rate for 65pr base 25g printed matter + 3x 65pr additional 75g weight + 25pr registry fee + 30pr LATE FEE, with 5pr left over, paid using mix of 6pc 50pr plate block of the 1st Airmail stamp series (05247; Ba #35) + late use 5pr Doar Ivri tabbed block (Ba #2) & tied by 3 strikes of JERUSALEM-3 (registry division) postmark on front + 1x on back.

Though not endorsed "printed matter" the subsequent military censor seals perfectly along the envelope flaps suggest that these served to close the unsealed cover when submitted for dispatch (per printed matter regulations mail had to be submitted unsealed) - the censor otherwise always slit mail open on the edges and resealed it there; when finally opened by the addressee the cover was slit open at left.

Backstamped 11 DEC 1950 NEW YORK transit + "Free of Duty" handstamp by New York customs on front, next day Registered Section transit & 13 DEC arrival.

The printed matter rate is unlisted in Bale, published 19 Oct. 1949 in the Palestine Post; the late fee since 1 Oct. 1948 was 5pr for regular letters and 30pr for registered mail - this fee being virtually impossible to find, here the first confirmed instance of its use during the Israeli postal administration.

Glassman assigns Jerusalem-3 to the sorting office "for small lots of mail" and lists Jerusalem-7 as being the postmark used at the late acceptance desk at the public counter of the GPO, though through extensive research this cataloger has determined that Jerusalem-3 was actually assigned to the registry division and here the most appropriate department for the deposit of this registered letter with a late fee. The addessee, Nat Peshkin, was the founder and president of the Israel-Palestine Philatelic Society of Los Angeles, and as such, the type of franking used is understandable on esthetic grounds. Ben-Arieh certificate enclosed.


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