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Feature Auctions
Phoenix Auctions
Worldwide Public Auction - June 23, 2025
Canada & Provinces collectors will be pleased to see the significant range of very rare lots (lots 8368-8610). Of particular note is the Newfoundland 1919 Trans-Atlantic Air Post 3c Caribou MUH (lot 8404) and the 1930 Columbia Air Post 50c on 36c (lot 8420). New Zealand collectors are even better served (lots 8786-8929) with significant rarities including SG #1 both mint & used (lots 8786-7) and SG #3 1/- with Rowland Hill ‘CANCELLED’ (lot 8788), 1857-63 1/- on thick horizontal mesh paper (lot 8797), 1862-63 2d on pelure paper (lot 8814), 1864 1d pair roul 7 (lot 8823), the largest known multiple.
Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions, LLC
The "Four Continents" Quartet of Specialized Collections - June 24, 2025
"Duchess" Collection of Switzerland & Liechtenstein One of the finest holdings we’ve had the pleasure to offer. Switzerland features fresh Cantonal issues including two Basel Doves (one mint, one used), plus quality singles and multiples of Federal Issues including several perfect Helvetias, Tell tête-bêche gutter pairs, Campione d’Italia issues, Semi-Postals and Airmails including Forerunners, and both Federal and Society of Nations Officials, etc. Liechtenstein includes sought-after early issues, varieties and errors, two Vaduz souvenir sheets, and more.
Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions, LLC
The "Four Continents" Quartet of Specialized Collections - June 24, 2025
Session 1: Hemingway Exhibition Collection of British Forces in Egypt Solid “start to finish” collection of these issues with singles, multiples, booklets and panes. Session 2: "Specialized Classic" Collection of India An exceptional collection of pre-WWII material, with 1852 Scinde Dawk issues (most on piece), Essays, Trial Colors, Proofs and Specimens. Session 3: "Bogota" Collection of Colombia & States An outstanding collection, broader and more comprehensive than most, highlighted by the unique used example of the 1859 5 Transfer Error (#6b), extensive and colorful Airmails mint and used. , a nice selection of early Postal History (stampless and franked), plus singles and collections of Colombian States. Session 4: "Duchess" Collection of Switzerland & Liechtenstein One of the finest holdings we’ve had the pleasure to offer. Switzerland features fresh Cantonal issues including two Basel Doves (one mint, one used), plus quality singles and multiples of Federal Issues.
Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions, LLC
The "Mount Royal" Collection of Canada & British North America - June 25, 2025
We are proud to offer this in-depth, specialized Canada and British North America collection, with much in exemplary quality befitting its storied namesake. Provinces include exceptional singles and groups, among which are Newfoundland black “THREE CENTS” surcharge (#160i) and Airmails such as #C2 varieties, Columbia Flight issues (#C5, mint and used), and a DO-X used on piece. Canada is equally enticing, with distinguished holdings by issue including Proofs, Essays, Trial Colors and Specimens, many mint and used blocks, imprint blocks, forgeries, EFOs, and more besides.
Paradise Valley Stamp Company
"Paradise Live" #S138 US & Worldwide Singles & Collections - June 28, 2025
We are looking forward to another fun sale with mint & used US classics, better plate blocks including a 10-cent Pan-American plate block of ten, a substantial US mint collection 1904-26 incl. very nice Washington-Franklins, back-of-the-book with postage dues, few Canal Zone and Hawaii lots, a number of better singles and lots from French Colonies, attractive little Scandinavia section, numerous better singles and sets from British Colonies and Worldwide.
Universal Philatelic Auctions
Wonderful Worldwide Postal Auction with No Buyer's Premium - July 1, 2025
The auction offers 23,570 lots to the value of £2,412,892 GBP ($3,088,501 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.
Vance Auctions
Worldwide Internet/Mail Sale - July 9, 2025
Canada from classic rarities up to modern errors; aviation postcards and covers from assorted countries; various French Colonies including Guadeloupe and Somali Coast; United States stamps and covers from 19th Century classics to modern with nice high value Revenues; Canadian "Lady Boat" covers from the 1930s; Canadian Eastern Arctic Mail covers from 1930s-50s including covers carried by the "RMS Nascopie"; Italy including Aegean Islands and Colonial issues; over 65 lots of coins (including nice USA Silver Dollars) and various paper money; hundreds of collections and large lots.
StampAuctionNetwork
Country Collection Lots, Singles and Sets - July 10, 2025
Starter country collection lots pulled from up to 10 different Scott Internationals and Minkus Globals up into the 21st century plus a number of quality singles and sets. This is a Live Auction using StampAuctionNetwork's Auto Hammer.
Lot 303 -
1860, 5c BROWN TYPE II USED GRADED '95', #30A, beautifully centered with neat town cancel, extremely fine-superb, with 2003 PSE cert graded '95', SMQ $2,800.00....US$500
Currently US$ 500
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.
Cherrystone Auctions
Rare Stamps and Postal History of the World - June 24-25, 2025
There are 1465 lots, presented in four sessions, which begins with United States including many rarities and graded items. There are collections of European Countries, British Commonwealth, "Japan Wars 1894-1911" formed by Myron Palay, excellent selections of South and Central American countries, Dr.Richard Mallow's collection of Poland and many others. As always, there are nearly 150 large lots and collections, ranging from single country albums to specialized collections, multi-carton worldwide properties and excellent Postal History lots.
Status International
Worldwide Public Auction - July 1, 2025
Public Auction 398 is huge with 9,140 lots catering for all types of collectors & dealers - from bulk accumulations and intact collections to desirable single items. This auction offers a huge range of material, with special emphasis on lotting stamps to cater for collectors with varying types of interests and budgets. There are almost 3,100 lots of Australia which consist of collections, singles, sets and covers covering all periods, from the Kangaroo issues up to Decimal and contains numerous number of mint & used £1 & £2 top values in all watermarks. General Foreign including small and large collections and almost 5,600 lots of World stamps, covers and single country collections, highlights being in the British Empire sections and the Pacific including Papua and New Guinea. Also a great selection of Asia, European and the Americas rarities.
classicphil GmbH
Just Stamps Public Auction - July 1-2, 2025
Welcome to the 30th auction of classicphil! Join us for two exciting auction days featuring 2,336 lots from important collections and specialized areas – a treasure trove for collectors of classical philately and postal history. Day one is dedicated to Austria in all its facets: imperial letters, ship mail, naval and military field post, Levant postal history, cancellations by crown lands, and issues of the First and Second Republic. The day also includes a remarkable collection of Mühlkreis cancellations from Bavaria. Day two opens with selections from the Kugel Collection, focused on postal history related to World War I and II – with notable material from France, Italy, and broader Europe. This is followed by the prestigious Provera Collection of Italian pre-philately. The day concludes with additional lots from the Kugel Collection, this time highlighting the British Colonies, USA, and Asia. We look forward to two days of remarkable philatelic discoveries – and wish you great success in bidding! Your team at classicphil
Sam Houston Philatelics, Inc.
Internet, Mail, and Phone Auction 3125 - July 9, 2025
UNITED STATES, There are (178) U.S. lots offered, with about (50) Classics and late 19th Century issues, and (10) Columbian lots. COVERS, There is a selection of covers (37); (11) Commercial and (26) First Day. Lot 190 is very interesting: 1¢-5¢ 1937 Army/Navy Issues on 2nd Day Cover. AIRMAIL AND BACK OF BOOK ISSUES, There are (9) lots; an interesting mix of air post, postal insurance, officials, stationary, revenue and others and much more.
BEHR Philatelie
Worldwide Internet/Mail Auction - July 10, 2025
On the French Classics front, rarity lovers will be delighted: prestigious tête-bêches such as the 25c Cérès mint - one of only three known examples - or the 1 franc Cérès used, a striking block of 25 of the 25c Empire imperforate with frame lines, as well as multiple striking miscuts, including a quarter sheet of the 80c Empire Lauré.
The Franco-Prussian War of 1870 also takes the spotlight, with a carefully curated selection of Ballons Montés: uncommon destinations, an exceptional letter from courier PELVILAIN, and a particularly rich section focusing on Alsace-Lorraine.
To the Commonwealth, a unique block from Fiji, from the legendary Ferrary collection - a rarity that will be featured in a dedicated article on our website. Also from the Southern Hemisphere, a chapter is devoted to the elegant triangular stamps of the Cape of Good Hope.
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...).
