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Feature Auctions

  • Golden Oak Online Auctions Collector Series - March 30, 2024 This sale features: British Commonwealth, Europe and Latin America, including further selections from Jim Dempsey's A&D stock, U.S. gems, including 223 lots of graded U.S. stamps, VF to Gem 100, U.S. stamps and collections, Philatelic and numismatic literature, U.S. coins , U.S. currency and more...


  • Paradise Valley Stamp Company "Paradise LIVE" #121 The Winthrop Holding of Classic U.S. Part 2 - April 6, 2024 Sale #S121: The Winthrop Holding of Rare and Desirable United States Stamps Part 2. All lots offered without reserve. Live bidding will start at 1 p.m. EDT on Saturday, April 6, 2024 thru Stamp Auction Network. Lots sold in this sale are subject to a 12½% buyer’s premium.


  • Sam Houston Philatelics, Inc. Internet, Mail, and Phone Auction 3112 - April 10, 2024 Sam Houston Philatelics next auction will close on Wednesday, April 10, 2024 at 1:00 PM, Central Time. The sale contains 540 lots, with material in all price ranges and something for everyone, collectors and dealers alike. A few of the highlights include the following: Lot 4 - Scott 8A, 1¢ Blue, Ty IIIa , Lot 7 - Scott 21, 1¢ BLUE, TY III , Lot 15 - Scott 85, 3¢ ROSE, "D" GRILL , Lot 51 - Scott 291, 50¢ TRANS-MISSISSIPPI, XF-Superb NH


  • Raritan Stamps, Inc. Live Bidding Auction #100, Worldwide Air Post Stamps and Postal History, Philatelic Rarities of the World. - April 24-26, 2024 Live Bidding Auction #100, Worldwide Air Post Stamps and Postal History, Philatelic Rarities of the World. The Sale contains 1509 lots and represents the property of 33 owners. Among the highlights are: 153 lots of Worldwide Air Post, including Pioneer and Zeppelin Flights items; beautiful selection of US and Canada Proofs, Errors and Varieties; over 160 lots of Carpatho-Ukraine from the Jiří Majer Estate with valuable stationery items, stamps and postal history of Chust, Mukachevo and Uzhgorod; China of all regimes, including inverted center on $2 Hall of Classics (Scott #237a, C.v. $175,000); The One Man Collection of Czechoslovakia with rare proofs and errors from pre-World War II period; items from Finland, France and Territories, Germany with Occupation issues of the World War II, Italian area material with Occupation of Ithaca set of 1941 (C.v. is over €215,000); Outstanding Ukrainian Tridents, DP Camps and Modern Imperforates; over 100 collections and large lots.


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    From The Flagship Series - Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions, LLC - March 11-13, 2024 --- (details on this lot here)

    Lot 1131 - 1937 (May 7) Grenko Hindenburg Crash Mail, the airship Hindenburg was landing at Lakehurst NJ with passengers and 17,500 pieces of mail when it caught fire and burst into flames; as one of only 384 pieces that could be identified, this Registered letter was one of two sent by Niedermann mailed in Munich to D Grenko; the address was lost due to fire damage so this Munich Telegraph Office registry label #570 was returned to Frankfurt by ship; the letter was mailed April 29th with a 2....Estimate $7,500-10,000 Sold for US$ 5,250

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    From The Dave Tarry International Gold Medal Collection of Mauritius Stamps & Postal History - Cavendish Philatelic Auctions Ltd. - April 17, 2024 --- (details on this lot here)

    Lot 269 - EARLY IMPRESSION - 1d VERMILION - POSITION 11 on blued paper with central "target" cancellation. Three wide margins and well clear at foot. Included is a small piece from which the stamp was removed SG 7 £8,000. RPSL Cert. (1930)..... Currently GBP 1,000

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    From Public Auction 518 - No Buyer's Fee - Modern Stamps, Inc. - April 6, 2024 --- (details on this lot here)

    Lot 86 - 1688 "24 c. Washington Crossing the Delaware" Souv. Sheet, Perforation Error (Stamp Perforations are Shifted 22 mm. Upward), Results in Very Little of Original Design on Each Stamp, Two Stamps are Missing the 24 c. Denomination, Very Unusual , Sound Cond., MNH, Normal Sheet Included for Comparison....200.00 Currently US$ 130

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    From "Paradise Live" Sale #121 - The Winthrop Holding Part 2 US 1845-1917 - Paradise Valley Stamp Company - April 6, 2024 --- (details on this lot here)

    Lot 413 - 1909, 13c BLUE GREEN ON BLUISH NH, #365, fresh and quite well-centered, light corner perf crease, fine-very fine, with 1982 P.F. cert. and 2003 PSE cert., cat. $6,000.00....US$500 Currently US$ 1,200

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    Exploring Stamps on "The Cattle in the Storm" by Graham Beck, (full article or video), (video), (catalog)

    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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    Stamp Auction Network News and Facts
    • 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.
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    • 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!
    • July 10, 2014. The 1st Fantasy Philately! contest is concluded. See the Results!
    • 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.
    • November 5, 2013. Announcing "Fantasy Philately" at StampAuctionNetwork.com
    • 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.
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    • 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!
    • March 29, 2013 ** New Records** See the top prices paid by SAN live bidders.
    • January 30, 2013. New Search Features let you pull lots added since a date and then save that data to an excel file.
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    • 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
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    • 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.
    • $2.7 Million to Live Bidders in April, 2009
    • $2.5 Million to Live Bidders in May, 2008,

Feature Auctions

  • Cherrystone Auctions Martin Nadel's Number One's of the World & Yakov Tsachor's Postal History of France - April 3, 2024 Our April 3rd, 2024 sale features two diverse and fascinating collections, first being the "Number Ones of the World", formed by Dr.Martin Nadel, followed by the multi-Gold-Medal "Postal History of France 1871-1878 Perforated Ceres" by Yacov Tsachor. Dr.Nadel's collection consists of an array of used or unused rarities from European Empires, Old States and Colonies; Asia, with numerous Indian States, the Americas and rest of the world. Yacov Tsachor, the foremost authority and expert of all Holy Land Areas, has exhibited his French Postal History collection at numerous International Exhibitions, garnering Large Golds all over the World, must recently in 2022 at London, Helvetia and Hunfilex.


  • Universal Philatelic Auctions Wonderful Worldwide Postal Auction with No Buyer's Premium - April 9, 2024 There are many POSTAL AUCTIONS but NONE like this… £3,058,091 GBP ($3,914,356 USD) worth in 32,687 lots and NO BUYER'S PREMIUM! The auction offers 32,687 lots 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.


  • StampAuctionNetwork Starter Country Collection Lots and African American Subjects on US Stamps - April 12, 2024 We've created a number of starter country collection lots with low starting bids. This is the best way to start collecting, you can purchase a large number of distinct stamps mostly already identified and placed on album pages. As you may notice, this sale has a number of country lots from the continent of Africa. I've also put together a number of United States stamps that feature African American subjects.


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