1947/49 Mandate-State 2 rate-period taxed wartime mail: DEC 47 comm. cv ex MESHEK EIN HAROD to ...

1947/49 Mandate-State 2 rate-period taxed wartime mail: DEC 47 comm. cv ex MESHEK EIN HAROD to partially written addressee at Religious Youth Village POB in HAIFA posted during Mandate period (start of War of Independence) and franked 10m Ba97 per letter rate tied by scarce Proud D6/Dorfman-2 pmk; as addressee not found (manuscript bottom front), cover returned to sender over a year and a half later (15-5-49 Haifa pmk on front) but now marked for tax as Mandate stamp now demonetized, using scarce narrow "T" cachet; received at MEH next day where postage dues (double DO-2 period 15pr letter rate) paid 11 days later using 10m & 20m 1st postages dues BaPD3/4 franks tied by full strike of 27-5-49 local pmk. Opened gently at back; very fine and unusual. As PD calculated per 2nd rate period (starting Oct. 1948), cover probably didn't reach Haifa in 1947-48 and was delayed by War, as northern Palestine affected by Arab marauders & al-Qawuqji's ALA from late 1947 to 1948.