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Vance Auctions
Worldwide Internet/Mail Sale - September 18, 2024
Welcome to our September 18, 2024 auction with over 7,300 lots. Some highlights: excellent United States 1869 covers including nice cancels, corner cards, and advertising; classic Canada with Pence issues including a 12 Penny Black, 1859's, Large and Small Queens and Jubilees; strong Gr. Britain including unused #1 and #2 with Certificates; Gr. Britain postal history and postcards; Canada OHMS Perfins; exceptional Cyprus; Italy including key stamps, good covers and postcards; aviation covers and postcards from a wide range of countries; hundreds of large lots including collections, accumulations, box lots and dealer stocks. Bidding is in inexpensive Canadian dollars. No buyer’s fee.
Mowbray Collectables
Public Stamp Auction - September 21, 2024
Welcome to our 45th sale. This bi-annual auction comprises 870 lots with estimates over $1.1M. We are privileged to feature several significant collections, including the balance of Patrick Brownsey's estate, the extensive world wide collections of Nicholas Cosh, extensive thematics ex Derek Lamb, good Rhodesia ex Julian Lang, Pacific ex Don Mee and outstanding NZ 1935 Pictorials ex Keith Moir. Some highlights include: Over 300 World collections including 40 New Zealand, Over 100 New Zealand Full Face Queen lots including a unique 1d London Print vertical pair, plus a single; an unlisted unused 4d yellow accidental imperf; plus a remarkable 2d vermilion plate 2 mint/MUH block of 14 from the damaged portion of the plate. In all over 2,500 FFQs!, Good range of New Zealand GV, Superb New Zealand 1935 Pictorials selection, incl a very scarce 2/- Captain Cook Die Proof. , 1d Claret Christchurch Exhibition mint, The unique NZ 1946 3d Peace Airforce missing blue colour, 8 x 1996 Teddy Bear Error lots incl two covers and a Capex miniature sheet, Teddy Bear Health error on commercial cover as well as a plate block of 6, Nice range NZ Fiscals QVLTs, Arms etc. and much more...
ROUMET Philatélie
Roumet Philatélie • Worldwide Mail Auction - September 24, 2024
Gwenael Roumet is pleased to announce the new Mail Auction: The 571th Mail Auction is online, closing date Tuesday September 24th, 2024. This auction features beautiful collection of classics, 20th century, airmail, and a very nice section of trials and proofs - Stamp boxes - French colonies including a fine selection of Cameroon, Grand Liban, and Syria - Various countries - Lots and collections and much more.
Universal Philatelic Auctions
Wonderful Worldwide Postal Auction with No Buyer's Premium - October 1, 2024
There are many POSTAL AUCTIONS but NONE like this… £2,745,396 GBP ($3,763,849 USD) worth in 30,046 lots and NO BUYER'S PREMIUM! The auction offers 30,046 lots to the value of £2,745,396 GBP ($3,763,849 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. It's so easy to test UPA - if you are a New Bidder you may qualify for UPA's Introductory Offer - £55 GBP ($70 USD) OFF your first invoice if you spend £75 GBP ($96 USD) or more**
Lot 1007 -
1938, Soldier in the War against Japanese Aggression (-) deep red (Yang NC8), with 11mm. sheet margin at top, bright color, large margins especially so at top, centrally canceled by "Hebei/Ling Shan" c.d.s. of 16 July 1938; two horizontal creases and light wrinkling at right, otherwise Very Fine. Est. HK$16,000-20,000....Est. HK$16,000-20,000
Currently HK$ 8,000
Lot 5320 -
3, Scarce 12 Penny Black, excellent colour, light target cancel, four margins (except at UL corner). F-VF appearance, small edge tears incl a couple that are sealed. Has 1948 Philatelic Foundation Certificate & 1977 APS Certificate. Despite the condition problems this is still a very presentable looking (and very affordable) example of this classic Canadian rarity. Scott $145,000 US....Estimate 30,000.00+ $Cdn
Lot 1411 -
1855, 10c GREEN TYPE I CORNER MARGIN SINGLE USED, #13, pos. 91R1, full margins, San Francisco d.s., extremely fine, with1979 & 2002 P.F. certs., cat. $750.00, 2004 cost $2,100.00....US$250
Currently US$ 800
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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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.
Heinrich Koehler Auktionshaus
Public Auction: German and International Philately - September 19-28, 2024
Germany's oldest stamp auction house is celebrating a very special anniversary - 111 years of Heinrich Koehler - at its 384th auction from 19th-20th and 23rd-28th September 2024. Offering an extraordinary 7,480 lots, this long-established company is inviting customers and friends of the house to Wiesbaden for its autumn auction, where they can once again look forward to philatelic and postal history material at its finest. In addition to a total of ten catalogues, including eight special catalogues, a new book "111 Years of Heinrich Köhler" by Wolfgang Maassen will also be published in time for the anniversary, documenting the history of the company in detail, especially the past 11 years. Single lots and collections from: All World / Europe / Overseas, Airmail and Zeppelin, Thematics, Picture Postcards, Literature, Coins. Germany: German States, German Empire, German post offices abroad and Colonies, German Occupation WWI, German Areas and Plebiscites, Danzig, Memel, German Occupation WWII, Germany, Germany after 1945. Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia, Kingdom of Saxony – 'Frederick Augustus' and so much more!
Oakwood Auctions
Worldwide 2-Day Public Auction - September 21-22, 2024
Oakwood Auctions is proud to announce its "September Stamps & Coins 2-DAY Auction"
There will be plenty of material for the dealer and collector alike, with singles, collections and accumulations for every budget. There will be British Commonwealth, Canada, USA, Worldwide countries, postal history, coins and tokens, and more. There are many highlights throughout the entire sale. DAY 1 will include Canada with Provinces, Revenues, and Postal History, Great Britain, and British Commonwealth, with some great singles, sets and collections throughout including some incredible early Canadian tobacco lots, plus much more.
DAY 2 will include Coins/Tokens and Banknotes, Rest of the World from Afghanistan to Yugoslavia, and USA, highlighted by US 1898 Trans-Mississippi India Die Sunk on Card Essays, USA 1898 #292 $1 VF NH, USA 1893 Columbians $1-$5 Plate Proofs, Norway 1834 Rare Silver Specie Daler Uncirculated, China 1980 #1586 First Day Cover, plus so much more.
Cherrystone Auctions
Rare Stamps and Postal History of the World - September 24-25, 2024
Our September 24-25, 2024 auction features solid selections of United States (including further material from the Larry Brasler stock), Canada, Great Britain & British Commonwealth, Latin and South America, European Countries, including Austria, France, Germany, Italy, as well as Poland, Russia, Spain and Switzerland. There is an old-world collection of Mixed Frankings and Redirected Mail, formed by a European gentleman, with an extraordinary selection of combination usages. Other areas areas are well represented, with China, Japan and Korea. As always, the sale contains 160+ large lots and collections, with individual country albums, worldwide accumulations in cartons, cover lots and much more.
Corbitts
Public auction - October 2, 2024
Welcome to our worldwide public auction to be held on Wednesday October 2nd. The sale includes mixed lots and accumulations, multi volume collections, single country ranges etc. Some highlights: Lot 51 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH substantial M & U collection housed in eight multi ring albums, collected over 70 years and offered completely intact. Est. £25,000-30,000, Lot 59 TWO IDEAL ALBUMS of foreign countries from 1840 to 1936. Est. £1000-1200, Lot 95 to 172 NEW IDEAL ALBUM of foreign countries broken down into 91 country lots., Lot 319 superb collection of WWII Air Letters written up on leaves (approx. 650 items) from participating countries incl. P.O.W, Red Cross, V Mail etc. Est. £1500-2000, A-Z All world stamps & postal history, GREAT BRITAIN incl. collections intact, postal history etc.
Censuses, NFT Corner, White Papers and Newsletters
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
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