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Sparks Auctions Sale - 28
Sparks Auction #28 -
September 26-27, 2018
Welcome to Sparks Auction's 28th auction, the first to be held in our
brand new spacious offices in Ottawa. This is another very exciting sale
for us, and contains yet again a very wide range of material, with
something for every collecting interest and budget.
Those who seek out high quality Canada will be well treated in this
sale. Our Canada section is highlighted by several advanced mint
collections, offering high quality singles, blocks and large multiples,
from the Classics to modern era, many being extremely fine and accompanied
by certificates. A further highlight is a special section dedicated to the
Rob Lunn International award-winning exhibit and collection of the Imperial
Penny Postage "Map Stamp", and its postal history.
Worldwide highlights include advanced collections of early Great Britain
stamps and postal history, lovely early Australia and States, and an
impressive selection of quality singles and sets of the British
Commonwealth, including the continuation of our perforated SPECIMEN
offerings.
Enthusiasts of Canada & BNA postal history will find fifty lots from an
exciting specialized collection of Canadian air mail and first flights,
many early stampless covers, New Brunswick postal history, extensive
postmark lots including strong squared circle collections, and much
more.
We are particularly pleased to offer 250 lots from the John Nalon
"Gananoque" collection, which features consistently high quality stamps and
postal history of Canada. Detailed photos of his entire collection can be
found on our website.
We are also proud to offer the Jack Gray collection of topicals. Jack
was proud of the fact that he collected over 200 different topicals,
ranging from extensive representations of birds and ships, to less
commonly-seen topics like umbrellas or handshakes. Sparks Auctions is
pleased to offer them all in our Topicals section, with items offered in
other sections being denoted by "JG".
We are continuously grateful for the support of collectors who turn to
us to find new philatelic gems. While many in our industry continue to
raise their buyers premiums as high as 23%, we continue to hold to a modest
15%. Bidders will also note that any items offered subject to a reserve
price are denoted by a "Rsv" notation in the description. Unless the
reserve has already been exceeded during pre-sale bidding, these lots will
open at one increment below the reserve.
Those who can’t view our sale in person are invited to examine the
thousands of scans here on stampauctionnetwork.com. We also encourage you
to visit our website at sparks-auctions.com, for sale updates, corrections and other useful information.
Enjoy the sale!
Stéphane Cloutier
Director of Lotting & Consignments
Session 1, Canada & BNA (Lots 1-785) -- Wednesday, September 26th, 2018
9:00am EDT
Session 2, British Commonwealth (Lots 801-941) -- Thursday, September 27th,
2018 9:00am EDT
Session 3, Worldwide (Lots 1001-1072) -- Thursday, September 27th, 2018
10:15am EDT (immediately following Session 2)
Session 4, Postal History (Lots 1101-1488) -- Thursday, September 27th,
2018 11:00am EDT (immediately following Session 3)
Session 5, Lots & Collections (Lots 1501-1944) -- Thursday, September 27th,
2018 3:00pm EDT (immediately following Session 4)