[Michael Peich]

I am extremely saddened to learn that Paul died. I followed his auctions, and then at this year's National he was set up next to our LUTFA booth. I talked with him a number of times during the National and our conversations were mostly about stamps. He was an expert on stamp collecting and spent most of his downtime in the booth cataloging recently acquired stamp collections for an upcoming auction. During our first conversation Wednesday I told him about my interest in Hawaiian stamps, and the next day he showed me some amazingly rare early Hawaiian stamps.

He was a real collecting polymath, and I am sorry I didn't have the opportunity of knowing him sooner, and longer.

RIP, Paul.

Miike