The specific characteristic of this issue (especially to delimitate it from the third overprint Jerusalem III) is the position of the inverted commas in the third, Hebrew line: they are slightly elevated in relation to the other letters.
The new overprint plate (T5) consists of two separate plates (A1, A2) covering the top and lower 120 stamp blocks of a printing sheet. The inverted setting (A2 on top of A1) is also known.
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Horizontal pair of 2m, SG no. 31, postmark JERUSALEM / 30 JU / 21 on a picture-postcard (showing the interior of the Omar Mosque) sent to Turin, Italy.
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Picture-postcard from Tiberias used with 4m domestic rate to Cairo: SG no. 33. Cancelled with TIBERIAS / B / 1 MR 21 (Sacher 2).
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Note that between September 1920 and September 1921 inland and overseas rates for postcards were the same, ie. 4m. |
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The stamps used for this local overprint were from the typographed issue continually reprinted since 1918, type T3. All the errors and varieties of that issue, including perforation and shades, appear also on the overprinted stamps---in addition to new varieties. This can be said for all four different Jerusalem overprints.
Varieties worthy to note:
- Rough perforation RP (3m, 1p);
- Mixed perforation MP (all values in K15:14);
- various overprint varieties, partly missing overprint, double prints, offset on reverse, vertically or horzontally shifted.
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Bale no. 34G in block of eight stamps, clearly showing the effects of horizontally shifted overprint.
Image: Ebay.
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The stamps were apparently overprinted only according to demand and placed on sale from 22.09.1920. That means there is often no official First Day and dates of first use have to be determined by analyzing post marks. According to Bale the last value in this series was issued as late as June 1921.
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