Sale 749 The Leo Malz Specialized Collections of Israel and Palestine

Taxi Mail Collection, 1937-79, approximately 60 covers and 15 labels or receipts, with particular interest in the Mandate and Interim periods; commences with undated unaddressed Aviv imprint envelope showing Hebrew "Delivered by Einstoss Letter Service, Dizengoff Street 90, Tel Aviv" double-ring handstamp in violet, and then with three covers including two envelopes to Haifa each bearing Kofer Hayishuv 5m blue canceled by "per 'Taxi Aviv'" unframed bilingual handstamp; Egged Company covers (7) with three ca. 1937 envelopes to Tel Aviv (2) or Jerusalem each bearing label (one black on green); 1948 (Apr. 4) envelope from Tel Aviv to Tiberias bearing on reverse taxi routing label and 100m receipt; and 1948 (May 16) envelope from Haifa to Tel Aviv bearing 105m taxi label in combination with Kofer Hayishuv 5m blue both canceled by "16 May 1948" unframed datestamp (First Day of Doar Ivri); Aleh Taxi Company with two 1948 (Feb. 12-19) envelopes from a policeman in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem marked "free from a policeman" or with taxi label endorsed "free of charge"; Drom Yehuda Bus Company 1948 (May 26) reused company imprinted envelope from Rehovot to Tel Aviv bearing Kofer Hayishuv 5m green (Bale #139) with routing labels and dispatch slip indicating payment of 150m on reverse; Yael Taxi Company covers (7) with three 1946-48 envelopes from Haifa to Tel Aviv with black on yellow label or black on pink taxi labels (2) stapled to front, and four 1948 envelopes from Haifa to Tel Aviv each bearing Kofer Hayishuv 5m blue canceled by different "By 'Yael' Letter Service" unframed handstamps or framed datestamps with black on greenish gray or pink taxi labels; Atid Taxi Company with five covers including 1946 (Dec. 22) legal-size envelope from Haifa to Tel Aviv with black on yellow taxi label, and 1949 (Sept. 15) express envelope with black on yellow brown taxi label showing "Sent Through the Atid Service" bilingual framed handstamp in violet adjacent, and envelope from Haifa to Haifa-Hadar bearing Kofer Hayishuv 5m blue and black on pinkish brown taxi label; Maged Taxi Company with envelope to Tel Aviv bearing Kofer Hayishuv 5m blue canceled by "Maged Haifa" unframed Hebrew handstamp in violet; Kesher Taxi Company, and a representation of post-1948 taxi usages; three later covers are 1979 Arab Taxi Mail to Gaza via Allenby Bridge franked with Israel stamps in combination with Arab Service labels, two are the Halabi Taxi Company, the other Arabic label on envelope originating in Ajman; some faults, mainly Fine to Very Fine, uncommon material; see it all online.
Estimate $1,200 - 1,600.