I am wanting to do my own pages for my Palestine stamps but have one problem someone sent me a description from their Scott catalogue (they are now out of town for some time and I cannot get a hold of them) so I am wondering if there is someone out there that can help me?

1920
Second Jerusalem Overprint
Arabic overprint 10mm long
7-7 1/2mm between English and Hebrew lines, Hebrew “at left above letters …….

It seems that the last line is incomplete where I have placed the “….” what is missing?

I am wondering if there is anyone out there who could help someone out and could send me copies of the pages from the Scott catalogue for Palestine under the British Mandate and send them to me in a #10 envelope.

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re: Need a description for my stamp album

Thanks Terry for your help.

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re: Need a description for my stamp album

the abbreviation you refer to is the Hebrew letters Aleph and Heh separated by a quotation mark. This is an abbreviation of Eretz Yisrael or in English, The Land of Israel. When Rome put down the final revolution of Bar Kochba in the Province of Judea, they renamed the area Palestina to offend its inhabitants. Since then Jews have for millennia referred to the area as the Land of Israel in their liturgy. In 1920 when Sir Samuel the High Commissioner of the British Mandate of Palestine commissions stamps unique to the Mandate, the overprinting of EEF stamps feature Palestine in Arabic (top), English and Hebrew (bottom). In a nod to the historic significance of the land and to the promises made in His Majesty's Government Balfour Declaration of 1914, the "true" Jewish name was alluded to by the aforementioned abbreviation which lies at the bottom left of the stamp.

As a sidenote, some Arab Leaders took this as an insult negating their right to the land, and non-spontaneous Arab Riots ensued.

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