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Feature Auctions
Cherrystone Auctions
Rare Stamps and Postal History of the World - March 18-19, 2025
The auction highlights are quite numerous, beginning with a solid section of United States including many rarities and graded items. There are outstanding collections of Albania, France, Germany & Colonies, featuring Part I of the extensive collection of Japanese Prisoner of War Camps for captured German soldiers at Tsingtao. Rarities from Italy & Colonies include Offices in China, Oltre-Giuba and others. There are Krakow overprints from Poland, original Artist drawings of the World War II "Gorale" issue, exceptional collections of Russia, Liechtenstein, Great Britain and British Commonwealth, as well as South and Central American countries. There is a collection of "Petroleum and Oil Exploration" on stamps, formed by Dr.Peter Scholle and presented exhibition style on pages, showing rarities from the Middle East and Gulf States.
Colonial Stamp Company
Public Auction with Live Bidding from Colonial - March 20, 2025
Great Britain with strength in rarer 19th Century and key items, values to the £5. British Oceania is strong in high value Australian Kangaroos to the £2 (several!). Fiji has £1 high values. British West Indies is where Antigua features the rare 2½ red brown #9 (SG 19). Bahamas shows a wide range of classic issues while British Honduras has all the £1 high values. Cayman Islands includes K Edward VII 2½ on 4d and Falkland Islands has the “Centenary” set complete. British Africa is strongly represented, as usual, with Bechuanaland and an unusual range of the difficult used K George V high value “Sea Horses”. Cape of Good Hope features a very rare SG #1 mint, the 1/- yellow-green, 4d “Wood Blocks” and the rare ½d mint Crown CC provisional #39 (SG 46) – the key to the provisional issues. East Africa & Uganda has a 50R mint K Edward VII, Egypt has the “Port Fouad” set while Gambia has a range of 9 imperf cameos. Madagascar weights in with 13 different large stamps and Rhodesia shows values to the £10. British Europe features Cypress virtually complete to the £5, Gibraltar has the £5 mint and a rarer still used example. Malta includes the rare 10/- K George V. Happy hunting! George Holschauer
Raritan Stamps, Inc.
Worldwide Public Auction 103 - March 20-21, 2025
The Sale contains 1173 lots and represents the property of 23 owners. Among the highlights are:
150 lots related to Worldwide Air Post, including Pioneer and Zeppelin Flight items of various countries; Beautiful selection of US, BNA and Canada Proofs, Errors and Multiples; Valuable British Commonwealth, including powerful Hong Kong, Rhodesia and Sudan; People's Republic of China, including Mei Lan-fang souvenir sheet in premium quality; Nice ranges of Austrian, French, German and Italian area lots; Strong Russian and Soviet Union material, including "Kartonka" souvenir sheet; Outstanding Ukrainian Trident overprints and DP Camp material. Please note the new Starting Prices Policy.
Most lots have conservative reserves, some are offered with no reserves, and nearly all lots have very low starting prices.
Stamps Inc.
Public Auction featuring 598 Indian States lots - March 22, 2025
Our 2nd auction with 598 lots of Indian States; half of the lots starting at $1. Every lot with a starting price of over $99 is accompanied by an ISES Inc or RPSL or BPA certificate. This auction has 124 lots from Dan Walker's Bhopal collection which includes the infamous Bhopal Scott #3 / SG #3, considered the be the rarest Indian State stamp today of of which only one example is known. The auction also has a nice selection of unused blocks of four. Some other unique lots:
Bahawalpur, Bhopal, Charkhari, Duttia, Kishangarh and Rajasthan.
Heinrich Koehler Auktionshaus
Public Auction: German and International Philately - March 24-April 8, 2025
385th Heinrich Köhler Auction featuring single lots, collections and postal history from the entire world. Some special notes: Special Catalogue: Turkey from 1863 – Stamps and Postal History – The “Primavera” Collection; Special part: All-World-Postal Stationery – The Dankward Ufer Collection; Special catalogue: German foreign Post Offices and Colonies - The "Calibra" Collection; Special part: The Postal History of Gdansk, from pre-philately to the end of March 1945 - the Ton Hulkenberg collection; Special part: WWII – Propaganda – The Ian Nutley Collection; Special part within: Schleswig Holstein - Letter mail between the Duchies and the GAPU; Special catalogue: Heligoland – The Hans-Jürgen Borowski Collection; Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia – The "P.G." Collection.
abacus auctions
Australia, Australian Colonies & Territories, Pacific Islands and Worldwide Stamps, Postal History & Picture Postcards, Militaria & Medals, Coins & Banknotes, Sporting Memorabilia & Collectables - March 25-28, 2025
Sale 259 offers 3,000+ lots with estimates of almost A$2,500,000. Australia features Colonies through essays for the first Commonwealth issue to Decimal missing colours & perforation errors, plus the balance of Andrew Johnston’s extensive KGV Heads collections. Pacific Islands feature GRI Overprints including rare errors, Nauru, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa and New Zealand. Highlight sections include Gerald Fon’s Kangaroos, Vera Bentley’s Western Australia postmarks, Jerry Blair’s Papua, and John Gibson's New Hebrides & Solomon Islands (the latter three featuring extensive postal history in addition to the stamps & errors), as well as many other fine single stamps, small groups and our usual range of collections & accumulations.
Universal Philatelic Auctions
Wonderful Worldwide Postal Auction with No Buyer's Premium - April 1, 2025
There are many POSTAL AUCTIONS but NONE like this… £2,709,938 GBP ($3,695,370 USD) worth in 27,363 lots and NO BUYER'S PREMIUM! The auction offers 27,363 lots to the value of £2,709,938 GBP ($3,695,370 USD) comprising worldwide Collections, Sets, Singles, Covers, Proofs, High Values, Rarities, Topicals, FEO etc ... from the broadest range of regions including high quality classic Great Britain, British Empire, British Africa, British North America, India, Europe, British Asia, Asia with China, US and much more. Highlights once again include remarkable particularly strong in GB with High Values, British Empire plus exceptional Europe and overseas, with very good USA and many other countries too numerous to mention. New winning bidders receive an amazing Introductory Offer - £55 GBP ($70 USD) OFF your first invoice subject to a minimum spend of £75 GBP ($96 USD).
Graham Beck, from the Youtube video channel, "Exploring Stamps"
does an amazing job introducing the next generation to Philately. His latest video looks at the United States "Cattle in the Storm" to ask the question... "Is this the most Beatiful U.S. Stamp"?
Let's show Graham some love and visit his site and take a listen.
In the video he mentions Canada's "Bluenose" as a contender for the most Beautiful stamp of all -- so in my video we will look at both stamps.
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It gives you access to auction calendars, dealer offerings, calendars of events, and more.
November 14th, the new record for a single C3a 24¢ Invert Position 49, sold
to a SAN Live bidder for $1,350,000 + the buyers commission -- this is 2nd place on the all-time highest prices paid using Live Bidding. The bidder was asked if he wanted to be on the phone, and he said, "No I'm fine with StampAuctionNetwork® Live".See the top prices paid by SAN live bidders.
June 20, 2018 -- StampAuctionNetwork Unattended Live Bidding was thoroughly test and performed exceptionally. We had 7 bidders participate in the test, They bid on 40 lots in the Siegel International Sale, they won 8 lots, won all the ties, bought lots totalling $14,500, and saved $1,650 at a cost of $145.
Unattended Live fees are waived in June, 2018 to anyone who uses the service. You must join StampAuctionNetwork® Basic or Extended features at some level (trial, BASIC, Extended, or PowerUser), but that can be as little as $9.95/year. Fees are 1% of the hammer price.
June 13, 2018 -- StampAuctionNetwork goes over $1 Billion! (adjusted for currency).
With the addition of a number of recent David Feldman SA sales, and the restoration of Shreves Sales 7-39, 151-157, and 161-162 (31,000 lots with PR's of 45 million), StampAuctionNetwork® officially crosses
the $1 Billion mark in prices realized. No other auction site has this significant a database of prices realized.
June 11, 2018. Instructional Videos and Webinars are released at StampAuctionNetwork® starting with "StampAuctionNetwork® Unattended Live Bidding Explained"
December 20, 2017. Record Breaking Results. SAN Bidders broke the record for percent of Sales sold for a major sale. Over 83% of Robert A Siegel's sale 1173 sold to SAN bidders, with another 11% of Lots where the SAN bidder was the underbidder. Only 6% of lots sold without SAN competition.
June 9th, 2016. Live Bidding results at WSS-NY 2016. Even though the entire world was at WSS, SAN Live
bidders who were not at the show brought home great stamps. Live Bidders won $1,059,000 of lots offered by the four
auction houses at WSS, and were the underbidders on another $700,000 worth of material, bringing the total impact of
SAN live bidders to $1,734,000. Thank you live bidders!
May 29, 2016. Live Bidding at World Stamp Show-NY 2016. We are pleased to announce
that all of the auctioneers at WSS-NY 2016 will also make their
auctions available to StampAuctionNetwork® bidders using our live bidding
platform on any device. You can bid from anywhere in the world,
or even the auction room floor using StampAuctionNetwork's live bidding.
April 18th, 2016. Tour de Cure Charity Auction to Benefit the American Diabetes Association. Our 4th annual auction for diabetes
was a record breaker! Over $45,000 was raised that will go directly to research efforts to cure diabetes. My ride will
be May 14th and 15th. Thanks again to all our auction sponsors who made generous donations of stamps and covers for the
auction, and to our collector friends who also made contributions. A special thanks to Daniel Kelleher LLC who at the last
minute provided some excellent Asia material which was hotly contested. When the dust had settled, Kelleher was
responsible for over $30,000 of the $45,500 total. Paradise Vally and Earl P.L. Apfelbaum also made large contributions.
December 31, 2014. Announcing StampAuctionNetwork® for Mobile Devices!Just click on the link or go to
mStampAuctions.com or StampAuctionMobile.com to use StampAuctionNetwork® on any of your mobile devices. The new interface has
been in development for a year now, and has been tested by our own StampAuctionNetwork® mobile evaluation team, so it is ready for
general use. Please send any additional feedback my way!
June 26, 2014, a 30c Ultramarine & Carmine, Flags Inverted (121b) sold in the Siegel Rarities of the World to a SAN Live Bidder for $290,000. See the top prices paid by SAN live bidders.
May 13, 2014, a few new records for SAN Live Bidders. The C3a 24¢ Invert Position 89, sold
to a SAN Live bidder for $230,000. Interestingly, it last sold to a different SAN Live bidder two years
earlier for $150,000.See the top prices paid by SAN live bidders.
April 1, 2014. The 2nd Annual TourdeCure Charity Auction for the American Diabetes Association
realized over $11,000. The autographed copy of Bill Gross's book sold for $775.
June 25, 2013, SAN Live Bidders shattered several 6 year records which I did not think would be broken.
First the new record for a single lot sold to a live bidder is $1,950,000 breaking the old record of
$650,000. The new monthly record is already over $5 million which breaks the previous
monthly record of $4.3 million. See the top prices paid by SAN live bidders.
June 8, 2013 - Let us do your Searches for you! Manage your Saved Searches and opt in for email notification. Just Login, and pick Search to turn your
saved searched into email notifications. You will get matches on your searches via email when the auctions are first posted.
May 23rd, 2013 - Language Translation Introduced. Press the "Translate On" button to translate from English to any of
several dozen languages, or to translate to English. Please send your comments to support@stampauctionnetwork.com.
March 29, 2013 - A record month at StampAuctionNetwork®. 3,931 lots sold to 476 different
live bidders for $3,870,432 for the month of March, 2013!
May 4th, 2012. We added some pagination to the search feature to make it easier to use. No limits on results now.
Dec 14th, 2011. Non US Live bidders take most of Kelleher Delta Collection. 51% of the sale went to Live Bidders,
but the US made up only 10% of that. Most went to Saudia Arabian, Egyptian, and UAE bidders.
October 31, 2011 - A record month at StampAuctionNetwork®. 2,985 lots sold to 620 different
live bidders for $3,851,952 for the month of October, 2011!
June, 2007. $650,000 record for a lot sold on the Internet,
$3.1 Million, record for a day,
$4.3 Million to Live Bidders for the month.
October 16, 2011 - Another busy live bidding week.
1534 lots were sold to live bidders totaling $1.3 million
and 348 different winning bidders participated in
auctions by Siegel, Apfelbaum, and Kelleher.
August 19-20, 2011 - a record 171 different live bidders were sucessful in
the Spink Shreve's Collector's series sale.
June 4-5, 2010 - 137 different Live Bidders took home a record 837 lots totaling $660,000
at the Harmers Sale.
March 12, 2010 - A record 154 Live Bidders took home 515 lots totaling $672,635
at Spink Shreve's Collector's series sale.
Robert A. Siegel sells over 40% of Sale 983 to Live Bidders - February 23, 2010
3,421 unique visits per day as of February, 2010
September 13, 2008 -
A record 130 Live Bidders took home 796 lots totaling $817,000
at Spink Shreve's Collector's series sale.
with over 16,000 Registered Bidders!
October 21-24, 2010 - a record 174 different Live Bidders took home a record 1014 lots totaling $576,215 at the
Daniel Kelleher Sale.
Vance Auctions
Worldwide Internet/Mail Sale - March 19, 2025
Good specialized section of Canada Large Queens (see Lots 4954-5049) with values from ½¢ to 15¢. These include shades, cancels, proofs, varieties, multiples, papers, watermarks, etc.
A nice range of 19th Century United States stamps and covers. These include many key items with Certificates and many great covers. The 2¢ Black Jack covers are particularly strong with many attractive items. A strong section of Newfoundland including some Pence rarities and scarce 19th Century covers. Interesting group of KGV Seahorse stamps from Great Britain plus Ireland overprinted types. The Ireland includes various printings, wide and narrow overprints, accent varieties and blocks. Hundreds of fine lots of worldwide covers, postal history, and postcards. Virtually all of these lots are illustrated.
BEHR Philatelie
Worldwide Internet/Mail Auction - March 20, 2025
Pascal & Louis-Edouard Behr are proud to present you their Mail-Auction # 59. The auction will close on Thursday, March 20th, 2025. You will find many lovely pieces for every budget, starting at €20 and up to €200 000.
Amongst those:
, a whole new chapter of Great-Britain and Commonwealth, with a new organization based on Stanley Gibbons (countries, numbers and quotations)
, a lovely chapter of France, French Colonies with lots of varieties.
, and at last, our rarities from France, French Colonies and Worldwide.
Phoenix Auctions
Worldwide Public Auction - March 24, 2025
The Australian section has a good range of better Roos, there are many variety lots with a good range of KGV Cracked Clichés and a useful group of 1d KGV shades. There is a handy small range of War Savings Booklets (lot 5252-5259) and South Australia offers a nice range, with 3 rare Imperf Long Tom blocks (lots 5327, 5329, 5330). Gippsland (Victoria) collectors will be pleased with the separate selection of Postal History and Postmarks (lots 5411-5441)
Rest of World collectors are always well catered for. There are nearly 500 lots in the non-Australia & Territories part of the auction. The section starts with 3 extremely enticing World Collections (lots 5514-5516). There is a fine selection of Foreign & British Commonwealth, including better single items, with many pre-1970 mint & used sets.
Corbitts
Public auction - March 25, 2025
Mixed lots and accumulations, single and multi-volume collections, single country ranges. Noted: Lot 51 - Fifteen volume British Commonwealth collection offered intact, a lifetime collection (Est £25,000-£30,000), Lot 52 - British Commonwealth mainly KGV-QEII accumulation on stock cards, Cat £21,000 (Est £2,500-£3,000), Numerous mixed accumulations housed in cartons, Lot 108 - 1948 Silver Wedding Omnibus set, VFU, Cat £2,000+ (Est £400-£425),
Picture Post Cards including a superb collection of Royalty, A-Z All world stamps and postal history. Cape of Good Hope substantial collection broken down into 260 lots and much more.
Le Timbre Classique
Philately - March 25-27, 2025
LE TIMBRE CLASSIQUE Spring Auction in Geneva, Switzerland will be held from March 25 to 27 at the Warwick Hotel in downtown Geneva as well as live on the Internet. Highlights of this auction include the Georges Schild collection of Germany, the Swiss 1900 UPU collection of Hansruedi Keller, Great Britain and British Empire, France and colonies as well as nice collections of Switzerland, Argentina and Nepal. A special COLLECTIONS’ sale will be held on the 25th with more than 400 lots of France, colonies and a range of other countries - to be viewed at our Paris office.
Negev Holyland Stamps
Holyland Postal Bid Sale - March 26, 2025
The 105th Negev Holyland Sale features many fine items of Holyland Philately. There is some very nice DOAR IVRI, FIRST DUES, and FIRST AIRMAIL Please do not miss the LATE LOTS. As usual, there is the LOW PRICED LOT section where there is NO COMMISSION.
Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions, LLC
US & Possessions, British and Worldwide Stamps & Postal History - April 1-2, 2025
Over 1,000 worldwide lots, starting with British Commonwealth featuring two Penny Black strips of four (one off-piece, one on large piece), £1 brown lilac, Seahorses, and Officials, plus offerings from Cape of Good Hope to St. Lucia. British North America particularly strong including British Columbia's first Duck Stamp, two scarce Newfoundland Columbia Flight covers (the first one of only two known), and extensive and high quality Canada. Worldwide spans Argentina to Venezuela, with a solid holding of Iceland included. US material is no less impressive, with ten #1's including shades, six #2's, two each #5A and #6, a lovely mint #363, a used #389, various Registry Exchange Labels on cover with Hawaiian origination, high-grading Ducks, and much more besides. Spend some time browsing—we're sure you'll find plenty of temptation.
The Latest PDF Example Censuses. Available with any Extended Features plan at or over $49.95 / year. (Signup Here).
Most of the censuses have the top 50 examples in each format NH **, OG *, NG (*), Used, Multiples, Pairs and on Cover, except where noted.
1851 1c Blue Type IV US 9
1860 30c Orange and 90c Blue. US 38 and 39
1861 24c Violet, Thin Paper. US 70c
1870-1871 1c - 90c "I. Grills". US 134a-144a
1893 Columbians used plus the 4c error of color. US 230-245 used
Key US Revenues. R17c, R99c, R102c, R129
1934 Federal Hunting Permit. US RW1 with used on 3333 forms.
Sampler #1 from requests. US 10a, 24 on cover, 292-E6, Canal Zone 157a, Canada CL20-21, Zululand 29
Sampler #2 from requests. Bahamas 4, New Brunswick 5, US 296a, CSA 12X2, and Hawaii 7
More details and info on how to request a census (here)
NFT Corner.
"Primer on NFTs and Blockchain for Philatelists" (here...).
The Day of the Dead Revisited - The USPS NFTs and VeVe (here...).
Crypto Stamps and NFTs? From "Exploring Stamps" channel (here...).
