Army Paymaster Envelopes, 1949-80, a 16-page "mini-exhibit" comprising 28 covers for the period, noting the changing imprints and inscriptions, with covers through 1956 sporting Registry labels, later items either inscribed simply "Official Mail" or with pre-printed Registry markings; all items fully annotated with notes on printing type, inscription changes, paper varieties, postal history, and more, Fine to Very Fine or better,...
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 #1276 - 4: Israel collections
Soldiers' Mail and Stationery Collection, 98 covers organized in two binders, plus a box of hundreds more ready for review and sorting; one volume dedicated to Navy and Air Force illustrated covers, plus Police envelopes, all intended for soldiers' use; the other binder filled with Zahal/Army and JNF Gift Stationery, Keep-a-Secret labels (mint and used on covers), and Army Welfare Organization envelopes; box contains myriad censors,...
Lot #1277 - 4: Israel collections
Comprehensive Collection of Aerogrammes or Air Letters, 1952-2008, comprehensive unused and used collection of approximately 160; well-arranged in three binders, with basically an unused and canceled example of most issues; also approximately 75 privately printed airletters, being primarily "Pik-o-let" (Tourism Promotion), Very Fine, see a sampling online.
Estimate $150 - 200.
Lot #1278 - 4: Israel judaica
Beals' Personal Collection of Charity Seals, obtained from the House of Zion auction; a wealth of material, much not often seen, neatly arranged and fully annotated on homemade pages; the charities and services benefitted, in both the US and in the Holy Land, include orphanages, hospitals, food services, schools, and more; numerous WWII-era anti-Nazi items, along with funds to protect and save Jewish communities in Europe; not...
Lot #1279 - 4: Israel judaica
Worldwide Judaica Collection, appropriately in 12 binders or stockbooks, with poster stamps, covers, and documents covering an immense range of subjects, including Hannukah, tourism, Biblical characters, flags, sports, friendship, relics, synagogues, exhibitions, and more; features a binder with autographs of various politicians, leaders and rabbis; an excellent one-volume holding of US material, beginning with a New Haven, CT, Star of...
Lot #1280 - 4: Israel judaica
A Grab Bag of Goodies, file box filled with, well, a bit of everything: we have JNF complete unexploded booklets; a lovely hand-painted Christmas cover franked by four Palestine Pictorials, commercial covers, a group of 1918 Egyptian Expeditionary Forces covers, a 1929 Orientfahrt Zeppelin cover posted onboard the Graf Zeppelin; Israel #1-6 tab blocks of four used, #7-9 never hinged; several First Coins on cover; First Flight Covers,...
Lot #1281 - 4: Israel judaica
Outstanding KKL-JNF Collection, 1902-78, highly comprehensive and nicely presented on quadrille pages in a slipcased Scott binder; opens with a brief history, followed by a magnificent holding of issues as singles, blocks, booklets, and sheets; we note imprints, shades, gutter blocks, and errors including imperforates, misperforated items, double perforations and plate flaws; arranged chronologically; clean and fresh throughout, Very...
Lot #1282 - 4: Israel judaica
WWII-era Judaica Collection, 1939-45, neatly presented in a Lindner album; opens with a lovely multicolor "Panorama of Tel Aviv" fold-out New Year's card, followed by a US War Bonds "Take a Punch" card; note also a JNF "Trees in Memoriam" certificate, six Rosh Hashanah-themed V-Mail letters (several with envelopes), Auschwitz and Dachau Prisoners Mail censored formulars, a 1943 Auschwitz Death Notice telegram, a postal card from...
Lot #1283 - 4: Israel judaica
Esperanto & Dr. Zamenhof Topical Collection, enticing little collection celebrating the language and its chief proponent; we note poster stamps, four die proofs in different colors of Brazil's 1945 Esperanto Congress issue, Brazil 1937 Esperanto 50th Anniversary issue center block of 12 plus imperforate top margin block of four; Russia's 1927 Esperanto stamp (1 mint, 2 on different covers), plus pages of postcards and covers...
Lot #1284 - 4: Israel judaica
Copernicus/Woldenberg Camp Collection, 1943, intriguing compilation of locally produced (in the camp, most likely) 5fen, 10fen and 20fen stamps celebrating the 400th anniversary of the astronomer's death; comprises singles (most mint, some used) and souvenir sheets (mint, First Day-cancelled, cancelled); note blackproof of the three stamps together, a magnificent (and likely unique) test impression of an early state souvenir sheet...
Lot #1285 - 4: Israel judaica
Wide-ranging Charity Stamps Collection, in two slipcased Lindner stockbooks plus a binder of manila stockpages; many hundreds in total, covering a broad range of organizations both in the US and in Palestine/Israel; we note impressive WWII-era labels for the US (including the Communist Party, in part to stamp out "Hitler and Hitlerism"), numerous Jewish organizations and charities in the States, calls to help Polish Jews, even a pair...
Lot #1286 - 4: Israel judaica
Charity Label Sheets and Panes Collection, over 30 in total, most identified (and valued) by Beals numbers; a variety of charities represented, including Chaye Olam, Yeshiva Torath Emeth, the Universal Yeshiva of Jerusalem, homes for orphans and the aged, United Charity Institutions of Jerusalem, Hadassah, and others; most complete (a couple noted missing selvage), with numerous perforation varieties throughout, generally Very Fine,...
Lot #1287 - 4: Israel judaica
WWII & Holocaust Remembrance Issues Collection, approximately 170 covers and maximum cards in two binders, all commemorating WWII anniversaries; material mostly European, with strong Czechoslovakia, Germany and France issues, marking events and locales such as Guernica, ghettoes, concentration camp liberations, etc., along with leaders and Resistance members who perished; small section of Israel covers, including some bearing...
Lot #1288 - 4: Israel judaica
Philatelic Portrayals of Famous Jews, a worldwide holding in six stockbooks or binders, with a wide array of subjects in every conceivable field of endeavor: Maimonides to Chagall, von Kárman to Resnik, Kirk Douglas to Justice Brandeis, Sholom Aleichem to Engels, and more; two volumes dedicated to Einstein and his myriad appearances on stamps; covers include First Days and other commemorative cancels, Very Fine.
Estimate $350 -...
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