Postage Due, 1948, 3m First Coins, selection with varieties (Bale PD1, PD1a, PD1c), mostly mint, including pair from the left of the sheet imperforate between stamp and margin (never hinged); plate block of six misperforated horizontally (never hinged); and block of twenty (5 x 4) with tabs, variety double vertical perforations between 3rd and 4th columns of stamps (disturbed o.g.), Fine to Very Fine.
Scott J1 vars.
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Sale 749 The Leo Malz Specialized Collections of Israel and Palestine
By: Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions
Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Sale 749 The Leo Malz Specialized Collections of Israel and Palestine
Sale 749
The Leo Malz Specialized Collection
of Palestine and Israel
Haiti Philatelic Society members who attended the NY2016 World Stamp Show had an opportunity to
meet and chat with Leo at the HPS presentation
Leo Malz is second from the right. Leo Malz (1948-2020)
Leo was born in a displaced persons camp in Germany in 1948. Soon after, he and his parents emigrated to America, settling in New
York City. Leo’s father established a very successful business that sold plastics to various companies throughout Latin America.
Like many of his generation, Leo’s interest in Latin America was directly related to the stamps he acquired from the incoming mail
that his father brought home from work. Like many philatelists, Leo had a strong and deep intellectual curiosity to learn about the
stamps and when he reached adulthood, he had the ability to afford the valuable stamps, covers and proofs that he needed in order to
build an important collection. Leo purchased his stamps, covers and proofs from numerous dealers and auctioneers, including many
name sales, for over half a century. Many of his items have been off the market for years.
Viewers will notice that the strength of this catalog is Haitian philately. In 1979, at age 33, Leo joined the Haiti Philatelic Society,
becoming member #82. He became a Life Member in 2010. In his eulogy for Leo in the current issue of HPS Journal, his good longtime friend Peter C. Jeannopoulos, wrote, “The stamps and postal history of Haiti were of special interest to Leo. Haiti fascinated
him because of its exoticness and the fact that so little was published…Every facet of Haitian philately was well represented in his
collection. Overall, it was one of the finest that the writer has ever seen. It ranges from prephilatelic to the modern. It encompassed
essays, proofs, multiples, postal history and sheets…If he had been interested in exhibiting the many different aspects of his Haiti
collection would certainly have garnered gold medals.”
In addition to Latin America, Leo collected other areas that will appear in future Kelleher auctions. Leo also was a dealer in
Astrophilately, advertising in the pages of Linn’s Stamp News for many decades.
While in his 50’s, Leo was asked by Sam Malamud of Ideal Stamp Co. to travel to Mongolia to negotiate the contract for Ideal to sell
the new issues of Mongolia. The Mongolian government assigned a young woman to be his interpreter. They fell in love and married.
She emigrated and they have three young children. Very sadly, soon after their first child was born, Leo was diagnosed with
pancreatic cancer. Because it was caught early, his life was prolonged, but the treatments made daily life very difficult. He lost his
battle on February 3
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Lot #1201 - 4: Israel postage due
Lot #1202 - 4: Israel postage due
Postage Due, 1948, 3m First Coins, without overprint, tab single used as regular postage with First Coins 3m orange and 20m blue (Bale #1, 4), tied by "Petah Tiqva" trilingual c.d.s. on 1948 (July 26) local Registered envelope; overfranked by 1m, appropriately backstamped, Very Fine, rare variety on cover, signed Tsachor, with 1987 Muentz certificate.
Estimate $1,000 - 1,200.
Lot #1203 - 4: Israel postage due
Postage Due, 1948, 3m, 20m & 50m First Coins, without overprint (Bale PD1a, PD4a, PD5a), the 50m with sheet margin at left (never hinged); the 3m has slight gum disturbance and the 20m has light fingerprints on gum, the 50m pristine, Fine to Very Fine, with 1988 Ising certificates for the 3m and 50m.
Scott J1, J4, J5 vars.
Bale $1,400.
Estimate $350 - 450.
Lot #1204 - 4: Israel postage due
Postage Due, 1948, 3m First Coins, without overprint (Bale PD1a), tab single, dazzling color, stamp never hinged; lightly aged perforation and hinged in tab at foot where small piece of paper just peeled back, Very Fine appearance, rare variety from the one sheet of 100, thereby meaning only ten tab examples can exist.
Scott J1 var.
Bale $1,250.
Estimate $400 - 500.
Lot #1205 - 4: Israel postage due
Postage Due, 1948, 5m First Coins, imperforate and without overprint (Bale PD2-I), bottom left corner margin tab single, o.g., never hinged, a magnificent example; faint age spots in margins and light wrinkle/bend at foot, Very Fine, only two such sheets recorded, thereby an incredibly rare positional piece, with 2010 Doron Waide certificate.
Scott J2 var.
Estimate $300 - 400.
Lot #1206 - 4: Israel postage due
Postage Due, 1948, 5m First Coins, vertical imperforate-between pair (Bale PD2p), on piece, canceled by complete "Tel Aviv" trilingual c.d.s. of "7.7.1948", Very Fine.
Scott J2 var.
Bale $600.
Estimate $250 - 300.
Lot #1207 - 4: Israel postage due
Postage Due, 1948, 20m First Coins, without overprint (Bale PD4a), tab single, with Postage 3m block of four and 3m, 5m and 10m tab singles (Bale #1-3), tied by "Jerusalem" trilingual c.d.s. on 1949 (Sept. 29) local Registered Express envelope, appropriately backstamped, Very Fine, S.I.P. expertising handstamp.
Scott J4 var.
Estimate $300 - 400
The Registered Express letter rate was 40m, so this was underpaid by...
Lot #1208 - 4: Israel postage due
Postage Due, 1948, 50m First Coins, without overprint (Scott J5 var), tied by "Tel Aviv/31" trilingual c.d.s. on 1950 (May 18) Registered local envelope, appropriately backstamped, Very Fine, rare usage from the one recorded sheet of 100 without overprint.
Bale PD5a.
Estimate $250 - 300.
Lot #1209 - 4: Israel postage due
Postage Due, 1949, 2p to 50p (Bale PD6-PD11), each with tab, tied by "Tel Aviv" trilingual c.d.s. on 1949 (Dec. 18) unaddressed cacheted Official First Day Cover; the 20p has a short perforation at top, Very Fine.
Scott J6-J11.
Bale $750.
Estimate $250 - 350.
Lot #1210 - 4: Israel postage due
Postage Dues, Collection of On-Cover Usages, 1948-49, a collection of 18 covers and a postcard, with varied and interesting usages, commencing with 1948 (May 28) local Haifa envelope bearing Palestine 10m with First Coins postage 3m block of four, single and 5m applied as Postage Dues; 1948 (Aug. 4) envelope from Paris to the French Consul in Tel Aviv carried to Israel privately and posted unfranked domestically with Postage Dues 5m...
Lot #1211 - 4: Israel postage due
Postage Dues, Selection of Postage Dues, 1949-77, with emphasis on the 1949 second issue; includes 1949 2p to 50p with tabs (never hinged), and properly used on four 1951-52 envelopes from Canada (2) France, and Sweden to Haifa, generally Fine to Very Fine.
Estimate $250 - 300.
Lot #1212 - 4: Israel Military Stamp
1948 (Apr. 16), Cover from the Negev to Tel Aviv, handstamped Derech Avir (By Airmail) in violet and Sodi Miyadi (Secret Immediate), and showing "Mateh Haganah/Negev" circular cachet in violet; with "Mateh Haganah/Tel-Aviv" arrival cachet in violet on reverse, as well as framed and unframed datestamp entries; minor winkling, Very Fine.
Estimate $200 - 250.
Lot #1213 - 4: Israel Military Stamp
Doar Tzva'i Covers Exhibit Collection, 1948-49, handsomely presented and well-annotated collection comprising over 60 covers plus additional various forms including Certificates of Posting; note Army Base Post Office markings (both lettered and numbered), numerous triangular Kaba cachets (several in scarce red or rare blue), Censored items; some later (1950s) Army covers with triangular sword-and-olive branch cachet (featuring one in...
Lot #1214 - 4: Israel occupation
Collection of Revenues Used in the Occupied Territories, 1967-95, mint and used collection, with approximately 100 documents, identity cards or exit passes, and nine philatelic covers, including Exit Visa stamps for Gaza and West Bank "B" and "D" both used, and good representation of IDF Revenue stamps for Civil and Health Services with multiples and tabs, mostly never hinged, Fine to Very Fine, sampled online.
Estimate $400 -...
Lot #1215 - 4: Israel officials
Official Mail Postal History Collection, 1948-, in three volumes, one each dedicated to early government Official mail, Post Office Official mail, and Official stamps used on cover; early material (approximately 140 covers) include "Provisional Government" corner card envelopes with a variety of Ministry cachets, special handstamps and markings, etc.; Post Office mail (48 covers) includes maybe a couple dozen forms (some stamped, some...
Lot #1216 - 4: Israel booklet
Specialized Booklets Collection, 1948-2007, complete and mostly unexploded (thus mostly never hinged), including the following (unexploded) according to the Bale catalog #SB2, B1, B2a, B3b, B4, B5 (panes have dramatically miscut perforations), B5a, B6, B6a, B8a (4 booklets with "Booklet Pane Society" rubber stamp in different colors), B9 (5 booklets), B12 (3 booklets), and MS63x1a (Aircraft souvenir sheet with rare perf 14 x 14), Very...
Lot #1217 - 4: Israel booklet
1949, 300p orange on white cover, "giftboxes of oranges" publicity (Bale B3b), complete unexploded booklet, Very Fine.
Bale $700.
Estimate $300 - 400.
Lot #1218 - 4: Israel revenue
1951-52, 3L light brown Radio License, proof, complete sheet of 25, imperforate plate proof on watermarked gummed paper; filing punch hole in sheet margin, horizontal crease crosses 2nd row of stamps and some age marks on gum, Fine to Very Fine.
Bale SR.REV.2P.
Estimate $250 - 300.
Lot #1219 - 4: Israel revenue
1951-52, 3L light brown Radio License, proof, complete sheet of 25, imperforate plate proof on watermarked gummed paper, with marginal manuscript notation in Hebrew "Fix/repair the color strength/intensity", signed and dated "17.1.57"; fresh with intense color; faults/defects, Fine appearance.
Bale SR.REV.10P.
Estimate $250 - 300.
Lot #1220 - 4: Israel revenue
1958, 8.4+3L Radio License, trial color proofs, complete sheets of 25, four different imperforate color trials on watermarked gummed paper; the first three each with two filing punch holes in sheet margins, a few small faults, Fine to Very Fine, with 2008 Tsachor photo opinions.
Bale SR.REV.12P.
Estimate $600 - 800.
Lot #1221 - 4: Israel revenue
1979-84, Emergency Printing and New Currency issues complete (Bale REV.59-REV.75, REV.80-REV.92), o.g., never hinged, both sets complete in plate blocks of four; pristine mint, Very Fine.
Bale $2,100.
Estimate $600 - 800.
Lot #1222 - 4: Israel revenue
Diverse Six-Volume Revenues Collection, 1935-95, mint and used, with more than 225 documents, folders, booklets, passbooks, or receipts, encompassing a vast and diverse range of subjects with a multitude of usages encompassing numerous aspects of commercial and social life; includes Treasury and other Ministry Revenues, Invoice and Receipt Tax, Accounting Tax (Agrat Sherutim), Lawyer stamps, Traffic Tax stamps with Auto Vehicle,...
Lot #1223 - 4: Israel revenue
Mainly Mint Collection, 1948-86, in two binders, with many issues complete, replete with varieties, such as values omitted, values inverted, values misplaced, frames omitted or partly missing, double perforations, etc.; includes 1948 5m to 1000m (three sets) and various perforations with 10m green corner block of four containing two horizontal imperforate-between pairs; 1949 100m to 1000m (4 sets); 1952 proofs with frames printed in...
Lot #1224 - 4: Israel revenue
Rambling but Rewarding Revenues Collection, substantial holding of mint stamps and documents; stamps appear as singles, blocks and panes, and include one volume of Zahal Gaza-Sinai Health stamps with strips of ten and errors; a stockbook with a specialized collection of Agrah Revenues; a sheet file of mint sheets, including Zahals, etc.; documents run from Mandatory to modern, with numerous Palestine Court Fee documents (including a...
Lot #1225 - 4: Israel revenue
Specialized Nearly All-Mint Collection, 1948-49, neatly arranged on stock pages; some used, but mostly never hinged and commencing with imperforate plate proof of vertical format stamp in red pair with blank value tablets on thick wove paper and two imperforate plate proofs of 250m orange horizontal pairs both with sheet margin at left on gummed paper, and 16 strips of five of 5m to 75m with Specimen (Dugma) handstamps in violet, black...
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