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Feature Auctions
Heinrich Koehler Auktionshaus
Public Auction: German and International Philately - September 18-23, 2023
In its traditional autumn sale in Wiesbaden, from 18 to 23 September 2023, Germany's oldest stamp auction house will offer one of the most varied and at the same time the highest-quality ranges of material in the company's history. The programme fits seamlessly into the series of top-class auctions of recent years. A total of nine catalogues - eight of them fine special catalogues as well as a comprehensive main catalogue - offer an outstanding range of wonderful philatelic and postal history material. In particular, the conclusion of the ERIVAN auction series with its tenth sale will certainly cause a stir.
Golden Oak Online Auctions
Collector Series - September 23, 2023
Our 6th Collector Series Sale of the year features: British Commonwealth, including some nice Canada, Asia, U.S. Postal History including an early usage to India, FDC's and more, U.S. Stamps, classics to modern errors, with something for almost every budget and collector interest, U.S. Plate Blocks from the "Bayou" Collection and other consignors, U.S. Airmail and other Back-of-the-Book, including a large selection of Ducks, U.S. Collections and Groups, U.S. Possessions, including Canal Zone, Hawaii and the Philippines and more.
We will take brief intermissions after lot 240 and after lot 480.
The buyer's premium for this sale is 20%. We accept payment in all the usual forms, and we absorb the credit card fees.
Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions, LLC
Collections, Stocks and Accumulations of the World - September 26-27, 2023
With 770 lots, this sale offers something for everyone, with estimates ranging from the hundreds to the tens of thousands of dollars, with about 250 US lots, 100 British, and the remainder an extensive Worldwide assemblage.
The centerpiece of the sale is the Keen stock , contained in hundreds of lots as put aside by the proprietor of Henri's stamp store in San Diego. We are pleased to present the best items from his stock—the worst having already been sold off. From US and Possessions to British and Worldwide Stamps and covers, a true treasure trove and once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Vance Auctions
Worldwide Internet/Mail Sale - September 27, 2023
Welcome to Sale #364 slated for September 27, 2023. Here are some highlights: early Canada with Pence, Cents, Large and Small Queens, and Jubilees; scarcer modern Canada errors including Inverted Seaways and a mint Missing Moose; strong Newfoundland including a rare mint #16 and nice Krippener Registered covers; good United States including an unused block of #1 and mint singles of #70b and #197; interesting Austria including rare Lombardy-Venetia; Great Britain with better stamps, Specimen overprints, booklets, postcards, and Mulreadys; hundreds of collections, accumulations, box lots and dealer stocks; fine world covers, postal history, and postcards. Bidding is in inexpensive Canadian dollars. No buyer’s fee. Major credit cards accepted. Bids can be submitted via SAN, email, telephone or fax. Bidding will continue until Midnight EDT on Wednesday, September 27, 2023.
Stampedia Auction Japan, inc
Worldwide Public Auction, especially strong in Japanese philately - September 30, 2023
The first Japanese auction house listed in Stamp Auction Network! With 1977 lots on offer. Our latest sale is sure to have something for everyone! We have 1408 nice Japanese materials including 67 Dragon stamps and 322 other etched stamps. We also offer 569 nice overseas lots, as well as Japanese Occupation. This auction also features many lots of China, North Korea and India in good condition.
Cavendish Philatelic Auctions Ltd.
Great Britain Line-Engraved Stamps & Covers - October 3, 2023
Welcome to our Great Britain Line-Engraved Stamps & Covers Auction! Great Britain Line-Engraved Stamps & Covers featuring several collections, some of which have not been on the market for 40 years, including collections of: Postal Reforms material, Mulreadys & caricatures, Treasury essays, Die proofs & Rainbow Trials, 1840 1d Blacks & 2d Blues, 1841 1d Reds & 2d Blues, Archer Perforation Trials, Maltese Cross cancellations and more.
Harmers International, Inc.
Fall 2023 Sale - October 4-5, 2023
Harmers International's October 4th and 5th, 2023 auction of United States, British Commonwealth, Foreign, Forgeries and Reproductions. The sale contains almost 1000 lots covering from U.S. autographs to our famous worldwide “Collections and Various”. Over 100 lots of United States, with 140 lots of the Dr. Guy Dillaway Award Winning collection of Presidential Issue postal history. 120 lots of Reproduction and Forgeries, extensively Speratis. The finest offering in years from the Dr. Richard Maisel collection of British Commonwealth Key Plate Master Die Proofs, Canada classic Pence issues (43 lots). The Dr. Guy Dillaway Cape of Good Hope and Great Britain Parts II (almost 300 lots). Specialized Great Britain Sea Horse aerophilately postal history and extensive collections estimated up to $20,000.
Lot 2228 -
1990, $1 Seaplane, horizontal coil, imperf (Scott 2468a), plate #1 strip of 6, o.g., never hinged, Extremely Fine. Scott $8,500.
ONLY 67 IMPERF $1 SEAPLANES HAVE BEEN RECORDED—54 OF THEM UNUSED. THIS IS THE ONLY PLATE NUMBER PIECE AMONG THEM.....Estimate $7,500-10,000
Sold for US$ 8,000
Lot 272 -
PLATE 11 KI USED ON NEAT LADIES ENVELOPE: 17 May 1841 small env. to Topsham, Devon franked with a clear to large margined plate 11 KI 1d grey black (typical shade for this plate). Most attractive and rare. SG Spec AS72 £16,000 on cover. Alcuri Cert. (1988) and RPSL Cert (2012).....
Currently GBP 2,000
Lot 153 -
UX178 // UX643a, 1994-2012 Period, 26 Diff., Mint, Postal Card Sets (All Still in USPS Retail Wrap), Sound Cond., VF, Original USPS Cost was $276.85....320.00
Currently US$ 160
Lot 9047 -
PRIVATE DIE MEDICINE STAMP, BARHAM PILE CURE CO., 4c GREEN WMK LOZENGES IN FULL SHEET OF 28 STAMPS MINT, #RS14d, showing plate #79 in top selvage and six Natonal Bank Note Co. imprints in the selvages, hinge reinforce mostly around the edges, remarkably well-preserved, fine-very fine, cat. $2,520.0 as just singles....$750
Sold for US$ 750
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.
Mowbray Collectables
International Public Stamp Auction - September 23, 2023
Welcome to our 43rd sale. This bi-annual auction comprises over NZ$850,000 of estimates. We are privileged to feature two significant collections. In particular Dr Robin Gwynn's Second Side Faces collection, and related Bock & Cousins material. Also Dr Ken Markham's Large Gold medal collection of NZ 19th century postal history and documents. The auction also features material from over 90 other vendors. Some highlights: NZ 1906 1d Claret Christchurch Exhibition mint, About 150 World collections, Over 4,000 FFQs including an SG 1, 1/- bisect on piece (SG 6a), strip of 3 SG 8a, 1/- Pin Roulette (SG 20a) & 1/- Roulette 7 (SG 31), NZ GV Recess collections and selections, NZ £1 QVLT Officials x 30 on piece, GB 1840 1d Black mint, GB £1 Seahorse MUH and other key GB items. There is something for everyone in this sale, with conservative estimates to attract bidding.
Sandafayre Ltd.
Worldwide Internet/Mail Sale with all lots shipped free - September 26, 2023
Welcome to this month's Sandafayre's mail bid sale which includes over 2,800 lots. A recent, fresh to the market, Canadian collection features strongly. We have a good range of small Queens with some blocks of four, a Specimen and a written-up collection of stamps and covers. For the Canadian cover lover, there is an interest lot of the 1859 issue on 13 covers. The recent Greece acquisition continues to provide a range of interesting items with some fine Hermes head collections. But it is the Crete and P.O.s which has some fine Russian Administration covers and stamps. From Cyprus there is a plethora of Broken Triangle varieties from 1904-1923. We hope you find plenty of interesting items for your collections. Happy viewing and bidding!
Postiljonen AB
International Autumn Auction #239 - September 26-29, 2023
International Autumn Auction featureing: Ivar Sundsbø, Romania 1864-1872; 'The Virginia Collection', Denmark 1851-2001; Markku Lehmuskallio, 'Postal History of Greenland;
Robert A. Helm, Iceland Numeral Cancellation; Iceland, Postal History 1902-1943; Sweden, extensive section with all periods and more.
Dr. Reinhard Fischer Auktionen
Worldwide Public Auction of Stamps, Coins and Collections - September 29, 2023
Dr. Reinhard Fischer's auction house will be presenting its 194th auction on 29 September, 2023. More than 7,300 lots with a total starting price of EUR 1,5 Million EUR will be auctioned. The auction offers rarities like: German States: good offer incl. rarities offer of the Bavarian Postage Due stamps incl. MiNo. 9 unique pair without overprint, German Empire: interesting offer incl. air mail stamp MiNo. IV with double overprint on large piece, only 34 ex. known, German colonies: wide offer, incl. many sought after MNH ** such as P.O. China unissued 1 - 5 RM. with thick overprint, German occupation: a valuable offer incl. 3 Mark Sarre MH *, only 20 ex. printed
, Germany past 1945: a rich offer incl. never offered variety of the Bizone 'Notopfer' stamp on paper w/o. watermark MiNo. 1X, Europa and Overseas interesting offer incl. rarities of classic ans semi-classic Austria, e.g. MiNo. 5 mint with Andreas Cross.
Universal Philatelic Auctions
Wonderful Worldwide Postal Auction with No Buyer's Premium - October 3, 2023
There are many POSTAL AUCTIONS but NONE like this… £2,199,694 GBP ($2,815,608 USD) worth in 25,261 lots and NO BUYER'S PREMIUM! The auction offers 25,261 lots to the value of £2,199,694 GBP ($2,815,608 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.
Cavendish Philatelic Auctions Ltd.
Great Britain and Worldwide Stamps and Postal History Public Auction - October 3-5, 2023
Welcome to our Great Britain and Worldwide Stamps and Postal History Auction. Philatelic Literature- Featuring worldwide books, catalogues, and journals, including maritime, military, airmail, commonwealth, foreign, and Great Britain literature. Worldwide Stamps & Postal History - Featuring the Denis Vandervelde collections of T.P.O. & worldwide Seapost (part 1), countries Aland Islands to Zululand, and fine collections of Chilean airmail covers, China stamps & airmail covers, France postal history (including Anglo-French Mail, Entry Marks, Maritime Mail, Railway mail, Napoleonic Period, Paris, Military Mail & World War 2), New Zealand stamps, and early British Empire stamps. Great Britain Stamps & Postal History- Featuring the John Parmenter collection of Post Office numbers in instructional marks 1888-1990, the Mike Boddy counties squared circle research collection. Also fine collections of Railway Mail, and the 1890 Stamp Jubilee Exhibition.
Auktionshaus Christoph Gärtner GmbH & Co KG
Worldwide Public Auction - October 16-20, 2023
This auction offers a wide variety of remarkable items from all over the world, including unique pieces, world rarities and post-historically important items of all kinds.
Banknotes Worldwide & Germany; Numismatics; Single lots: philatelie Asia / China, Thematics, Overseas, Airmail/Ships mail / Europe, Old German States, German Reich, Colonies, Germany after 1945;
Collections: Overseas, Thematics, Europa, Estates, Wunderkartons, Germany and Picture Post Cards.
Kewriga Auctions
The APS Sale - August 12, 2023
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India and States
Indian States Public Auction - June 25, 2023
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Cedarstamps Auction House
Worldwide Live Public Auction - March 18, 2023
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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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