Israel 2004 Ottoman Clock Towers

• Issue date: 3rd May 2004
• five values in sheets, and a Prestige Booklet
• Designed by: Zina and Zvika Roitman
• Printed by: E Lewin-Epstein Ltd, in sheets of 10 + 5 tabs, and in booklet panes with no tabs
• Perforations: 13.2 x 14
• stamp format height 40mm x width 30½mm
• Notes: a set of maximum cards was also issued

1.30sh ~ Safed. Clock tower above the Saraya (Ottoman administration palace), in old city (1880s)
1.30sh ~ Acre. Clock tower above entrance to the Khan El-Umdan (1784)
1.30sh ~ Haifa. Clock tower before the El-Janina Mosque (18th century)
1.30sh ~ Jerusalem. Clock tower by Jaffa Gate (1907, demolished by British Mandate Authorities, 1922)
1.30sh ~ Jaffa. Clock tower near the Mahmudiye Mosque (c.1897)

Sheet stamps (sheetlet of ten)

• stamps have illustrated tabs (on lower row) depicting historic views of the same tower, and have a single half-length phosphor band

1.30	1.30	tab set
1.30	1.30	1.30

Prestige Booklet

• contains six panes of stamps, five having a single design from the set, and the final pane having all five designs se-tenant. Pane format height 80mm x width 180mm
• stamps in the booklet have no tabs, and are non-phosphor
• Booklet issued at Telabul 2004 National Stamp Exhibition (has logo on cover)

booklet pane of five

booklet cover