Extremely Rare 2m vertical pair Pictorials on
vertically ribbed thin semi-transparent paper in
slightly darker gray-blue than the thin semi-transparent paper issue,
perforated 13½:14½ (13.50 x 14.50) as per Bale for this type of paper;
tied to 19 Dec 1935 postmarked German postal card used for domestic mail, from tiny locale Kibbutz
KVUZAT SCHILLER (present day GAN SHLOMO) via REHOVOT to TEL AVIV, franked 4m per period domestic postcard rate & tied by single strike of the local postmark.
The rarest denomination stamp on this type of paper,
to date only 1 used copy of a 2m stamp was known (per Dorfman/Bale); here a vertical pair -
now the largest known multiple -
unpriced in Bale, so rare.
A point of order: comprehensive research by this cataloguer has shown that this type of paper was not used exclusively for the production of machine vended "coil stamps" as claimed in the specialist literature, although the paper type is indeed rare. This cataloguer has also confirmed (July 2021, published in
JerusalemStamps Bulletin #1) that the compilation of Crown Agents Requisition Books of order for the Mandate, by Norman Collins, is vastly incomplete, by at least 40% of the orders. Although most philatelists relying on that source reference order #4090 of 7 Oct. 1930 as the only order for the 2m [coil] stamps, this cataloguer - aware of the usage period here being 5 years later - draws the reader's attention to a [coil] stamp order (#7884/2) logged sometime between late 1935 and early 1936 referencing "white thin postage paper": whether this stamp comes from that order or from another unlisted, we see here that this type of rare paper re-entered use at this time,
making this a doubly rare stamp by virture of being part of an as yet undocumented later order. Ben-Arieh certificate enclosed.
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