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Universal Philatelic Auctions
Wonderful Worldwide Postal Auction with No Buyer's Premium - October 6, 2026
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Stampedia Auction Japan, inc
Worldwide Public Auction, especially strong in Japanese philately - October 2-3, 2026
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Mowbray Collectables
Public Stamp Auction - September 19, 2026
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Michael Aldrich Auctions/ABC Auctions
Fall Collections Sale - September 19, 2026
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Paradise Valley Stamp Company
"Paradise Live" #S153 US & Worldwide Singles & Collections - September 5, 2026
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Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions, LLC
US, British and Worldwide Stamps and Postal History - August 30, 2026
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Oldlouis Auctions LLC
George Werbizky Zemstvo Collection - September 22-27, 2026
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Archives International Auctions
Timed Internet Auction 116 - September 9, 2026
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Guillermo Jalil - PHILATINO
Internet/Mail Sale - September 10, 2026
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Vance Auctions
Worldwide Internet/Mail Sale - September 30, 2026
Just Closed! Only Sales with Prices Realized
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Phoenix Auctions
Worldwide On-Line Auction - August 24-25, 2026
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Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions, LLC
US, British and Worldwide Stamps and Postal History - August 23, 2026
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StampAuctionNetwork
Thematics. France & Colonies with emphasis on Rare Proofs - August 20, 2026
with AutoHammer
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Guillermo Jalil - PHILATINO
Internet/Mail Sale - August 20, 2026
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Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions, LLC
US, British and Worldwide Stamps and Postal History - August 16, 2026
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Dutch Country Auctions
Coin & Currency Sale #48 - August 13, 2026
Feature Auctions
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abacus auctions
Australia, Australian Colonies & Territories, Pacific Islands and Worldwide Stamps, Postal History & Picture Postcards, Militaria & Medals, Coins & Banknotes, Sporting Memorabilia & Collectables - August 9-September 11, 2026
Abacus Auctions Sale 265 runs September 8–11, 2026, highlighted by the Signature Series offering of the Richard Guy Collection of Australia Kangaroo & Map Issues. More than 1,500 lots feature exceptional material ranging from rare essays and unique monograms to Specimens, Official stamps, multiples, printing varieties, and other specialized items. The General Sale continues with Australia, Australian Colonies, States and Territories, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, and worldwide material including China, Fiji, Great Britain, revenues, postal history, and hundreds of collections. The auction also offers philatelic literature, coins, banknotes, medals, jewelry, bullion, picture postcards, sporting memorabilia, general collectables, and cigarette and trade cards.
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abacus auctions
Australia, Australian Colonies & Territories, Pacific Islands and Worldwide Stamps, Postal History & Picture Postcards, Militaria & Medals, Coins & Banknotes, Sporting Memorabilia & Collectables - August 9-September 11, 2026
Abacus Auctions Sale 265 runs September 8–11, 2026, highlighted by the Signature Series offering of the Richard Guy Collection of Australia Kangaroo & Map Issues. More than 1,500 lots feature exceptional material ranging from rare essays and unique monograms to Specimens, Official stamps, multiples, printing varieties, and other specialized items. The General Sale continues with Australia, Australian Colonies, States and Territories, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, and worldwide material including China, Fiji, Great Britain, revenues, postal history, and hundreds of collections. The auction also offers philatelic literature, coins, banknotes, medals, jewelry, bullion, picture postcards, sporting memorabilia, general collectables, and cigarette and trade cards.
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StampAuctionNetwork
Country Collection Lots - August 27, 2026
with AutoHammer
New material includes country lots from Austria, Bahamas, Croatia, Denmark, Egypt, Falkland Islands, Fiji, German States, Malta, Mexico, Monaco, Papua New Guinea and much more. There are many more lots from Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Iceland, Italy, New Zealand, North Borneo, Sweden and Switzerland to name just a few. Take a look at the table of contents to see the complete list.
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Golden Oak Online Auctions
Silver Oak Series - August 29, 2026
with AutoHammer
This sale features 530 lots of U.S. and foreign material, with individual estimates ranging from $30 to $4,000. Highlights include a strong selection of U.S. autographs and postal history, featuring further items from a connoisseur's collection of mourning covers, many addressed abroad. The U.S. stamps section spans classics to early modern issues, including numerous graded certificates, along with airmail and back-of-the-book material, notably some scarce Newspaper stamps. The sale also offers a sizable quantity of U.S. face value postage, a large section of Hawaii, and general foreign material covering British Commonwealth, East Asia, and Europe. Rounding out the offering is a selection of philatelic literature.
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Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions, LLC
Sports Cards & Memorabilia - September 2-3, 2026
Session 1 offers an outstanding offering of sports cards, memorabilia and non-sports cards , with the catalog beginning with extensive vintage baseball collections and sets before transitioning into an exceptional run of individually graded cards. The pre-war material takes center stage with remarkable T206 Ty Cobb rarities , led by the Ty Cobb Portrait Red PSA 8 and Ty Cobb Bat Off Shoulder PSA 8 , together with other high-grade T206 Hall of Famers and scarce advertising backs. The early baseball run continues with Walter Johnson, Rogers Hornsby and Lou Gehrig , highlighted by a 1934 Goudey Gehrig SGC 3 , and two iconic 1933 Goudey Babe Ruth cards, #149 and #181, each graded SGC 3 .
The catalog then moves into the great postwar era with key rookie cards and Hall of Famers including Jackie Robinson, Stan Musial, Yogi Berra, Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Roberto Clemente, Sandy Koufax and Nolan Ryan , among many others.
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Paradise Valley Stamp Company
"Paradise Live" #S153 US & Worldwide Singles & Collections - September 5, 2026
This sale offers US singles, many with certificates, a remarkable group of modern US mint never hinged all with high grade PSE certificates, attractive back-of-the-book with 1930 Zeppelin set in blocks of four, Postage Due and Newspaper issues, British Commonwealth George VI mint collection with a catalog value of $40,000+, France and French Colonies with better singles and sets, British Africa scarce singles and of course as always a number of attractive single and group lots from a variety of countries.
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Mowbray Collectables
Public Stamp Auction - September 19, 2026
Mowbray Collectables' 49th bi-annual stamp auction features 913 lots totaling $1.3 million in estimates, from over 140 vendors and 260+ collections, 65 of them New Zealand. The standout lot is a New Zealand 1d orange Full Face Queen/Chalon on white paper, large star watermark, imperforate with four margins, from the first Richardson printing, extremely rare and not offered in 60 years, BPA certified, catalogued at £32,000, reserved at NZ$25,000, ex Dumas Spink 2000.
The Chalon/Full Face Queen selection is particularly strong, with 181 lots including four SG 1 examples (one mint, cat. £80,000, est. $40,000) and a mint imperforate 6d brown block of four (est. $15,000), plus many quality items at accessible estimates. New Zealand highlights include a mint 1d Claret (est. $12,000), a 1905 "On Public Service Only" official cover with five overprints (est. $15,000), an 1846 entire with a rare "Russell" boxed handstamp, one of only two known (est. $10,000), and a newly discovered, unrecorded 2006 90c Kapa Haka self adhesive (est. $5,000). Also featured: a Queen Victoria Long Types mint collection to £5, quality Pacific territory rarities (Cook Islands, Niue, Samoa), and an unseen family archive of 1901–13 British Antarctic Expedition correspondence. British material includes 57 lots of GB 1d Blacks (mostly ex Ian Hawken), and American collectors will find six lots of USA postal history from 1784–1873, ex Bob Watson.
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Stampedia Auction Japan, inc
Worldwide Public Auction, especially strong in Japanese philately - October 2-3, 2026
Stampedia's Auction, Japan Sale 39, spans nearly 1,800 lots covering the full breadth of Japanese philately, from the earliest 1871 Dragon issues in mon and sen currencies through Cherry Blossom, Bird, and Koban series, into 20th century definitives, commemoratives, and modern issues up to 2025. Strong postal history sections include Meiji era covers and cancellations, military and prisoner of war mails from the Russo Japanese War and Pacific War, Japanese post offices in Korea and China, and incoming mail to Japan. The sale also features Ryukyu Islands material and extensive Japanese occupation issues covering China, Malaya, Burma, Sumatra, Java, the Philippines, and Manchuria.
Beyond Japan proper, the catalogue extends into broader Asian philately (Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, India, and Southeast Asia) and a substantial international section spanning Great Britain and the Commonwealth, France and its former territories, German states, Central and Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Russia and the USSR, the Americas, and Africa. Specialized categories round out the sale, including Zeppelin mail, proofs and essays, topical and thematic collections, and postcards.
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Universal Philatelic Auctions
Wonderful Worldwide Postal Auction with No Buyer's Premium - October 6, 2026
Universal Philatelic Auctions presents one of their most valuable mail bid sales to date, offering 21,466 lots valued at £2,134,743 GBP ($2,732,471 USD), continuing their 25 year tradition of Reducing Estimate Auctions with no buyer's premium. The sale spans worldwide material including collections, sets, singles, covers, proofs, high values, rarities, and topicals, with particular strength in classic Great Britain high values, British Empire, British Africa, British North America, India, Europe, British Asia, China, and the USA, among many other regions.
Top-end GB rarities anchor the sale, led by an 1840 Rainbow Trial 1d blue marginal pair with a black Maltese Cross cancellation experiment, and an 1841 1d red-brown "black plate" 2 example with a detailed forensic certificate of authenticity. Other standouts include an 1873-80 4d vermilion imprimatur with RPS certification, an 1841 2d violet-blue on tinted paper with a 2025 Brandon certificate, and a Mulready 1d envelope used on its first day of issue. The collections and accumulations run equally deep, with sizeable Commonwealth, European, and worldwide lots such as a Liechtenstein and Switzerland shoebox estimated in excess of £7,000 catalogue value, an East Germany and Russian Zone album valued at £3,750, and a 1935 KGV Silver Jubilee mint collection assembled chronologically across the full Commonwealth.
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Universal Philatelic Auctions
Wonderful Worldwide Postal Auction with No Buyer's Premium - October 6, 2026
Universal Philatelic Auctions presents one of their most valuable mail bid sales to date, offering 21,466 lots valued at £2,134,743 GBP ($2,732,471 USD), continuing their 25 year tradition of Reducing Estimate Auctions with no buyer's premium. The sale spans worldwide material including collections, sets, singles, covers, proofs, high values, rarities, and topicals, with particular strength in classic Great Britain high values, British Empire, British Africa, British North America, India, Europe, British Asia, China, and the USA, among many other regions.
Top-end GB rarities anchor the sale, led by an 1840 Rainbow Trial 1d blue marginal pair with a black Maltese Cross cancellation experiment, and an 1841 1d red-brown "black plate" 2 example with a detailed forensic certificate of authenticity. Other standouts include an 1873-80 4d vermilion imprimatur with RPS certification, an 1841 2d violet-blue on tinted paper with a 2025 Brandon certificate, and a Mulready 1d envelope used on its first day of issue. The collections and accumulations run equally deep, with sizeable Commonwealth, European, and worldwide lots such as a Liechtenstein and Switzerland shoebox estimated in excess of £7,000 catalogue value, an East Germany and Russian Zone album valued at £3,750, and a 1935 KGV Silver Jubilee mint collection assembled chronologically across the full Commonwealth.
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BNAPEX 2026 will be held in mid-September in Valleyfield, near Montreal, QC.
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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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Philately.Live -- A curated Google for Philately. It contains all the Societies, Organizations, Foundations, Clubs, Auctions, Dealers, Marketplaces, Publications, Stamp Issuing entities, Stamp Shows and Exhibits, and Museums.
It gives you access to auction calendars, dealer offerings, calendars of events, and more.
- 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"
- February 23, 2018. Announcing StampAuctionNetwork® Extended Features!
- 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.
- 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!
- 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.
- StampAuctionNetwork® is on Facebook! Like us!
- 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.
- $2.7 Million to Live Bidders in April, 2009
- $2.5 Million to Live Bidders in May, 2008,
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Feature Auctions
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abacus auctions
Australia, Australian Colonies & Territories, Pacific Islands and Worldwide Stamps, Postal History & Picture Postcards, Militaria & Medals, Coins & Banknotes, Sporting Memorabilia & Collectables - August 9-September 11, 2026
Abacus Auctions Sale 265 runs September 8–11, 2026, highlighted by the Signature Series offering of the Richard Guy Collection of Australia Kangaroo & Map Issues. More than 1,500 lots feature exceptional material ranging from rare essays and unique monograms to Specimens, Official stamps, multiples, printing varieties, and other specialized items. The General Sale continues with Australia, Australian Colonies, States and Territories, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, and worldwide material including China, Fiji, Great Britain, revenues, postal history, and hundreds of collections. The auction also offers philatelic literature, coins, banknotes, medals, jewelry, bullion, picture postcards, sporting memorabilia, general collectables, and cigarette and trade cards.
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AB Philea
Online Stamp Auction - August 26-27, 2026
AB Philea Auction No. 423 offers an extensive range of Swedish, Nordic, European, and worldwide philately, with a particularly strong emphasis on postal history and classic Sweden.
The Swedish section includes prephilatelic material, covers and postal documentation, followed by classic issues such as Coat-of-Arms skilling and öre values, Circle Type issues, Officials, Postage Dues, Oscar II, Medallion and Landstorm issues, and coil stamps through modern material. Other areas include better cancellations, postal stationery, military mail, cover and cancellation collections, and postal stationery collections.
Nordic material includes Norway, Spitsbergen, Denmark, Danish West Indies, Schleswig, the Faroes, Iceland, Finland, and Åland. The worldwide section is broad, with material from Great Britain and Colonies, China, France, Germany, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Russia, Switzerland, the United States, and numerous other countries.
The auction also features general Europe and worldwide lots, thematic material including Judaica, Olympics, Polar and Circus topics, plus philatelic literature and miscellaneous material.
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classicphil GmbH
Just Stamps and Letters Public Auction - August 29-30, 2026
36th classicphil GmbH Auction
LIVE!
August 29th - 30th, 2026
Show lots
36th Auction classicphil - Now online!
We are pleased to present another two-day sale featuring 3,270 lots.
August 29th–30th, 2026, starting each day at 10:00 CET - Online auction
Day 1 covers Austria, Austrian cancellations, Austrian territories, Austria & worldwide collections, as well as Europe and worldwide sectors.
Day 2 is dedicated to the renowned Kugel Collection, historical letters and postcards, World War I and II, Great Britain & the British Commonwealth, US Navy, US Airmail, worldwide material, and rare postcards of the American Siberian Expedition.
We wish you much pleasure in browsing and great success with your bids!
Your classicphil Team
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Cavendish Philatelic Auctions Ltd.
Worldwide & Great Britain - September 2-3, 2026
Welcome to the Worldwide & Great Britain auction
Wednesday 2 September 2026 At 11.00am BST, lots 1-636
Worldwide stamps & postal history featuring countries Aden to Zanzibar including the James Hartley collection of British Guiana.
Thursday 3 September 2026 At 11.00am BST, lots 637-1068
Great Britain stamps & postal history featuring the Roy Erskine collection of Scottish postal history 1680-1900.
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Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions, LLC
Sports Cards & Memorabilia - September 2-3, 2026
Starting with a group of pristine comics-themed commemorative coins, the session continues with Autographs and Historical Documents, specialized holdings including a gallery of Posters, quality Pens and solid Space-related materials (found throughout all categories), plus everything from Artwork to Toys and more. Highlights include a typed letter signed by Mohandas Gandhi, signatures of Presidents and Founding Fathers (Hamilton, Lafayette), plus actors, astronauts, etc., campaign buttons and memorabilia, silver tableware, Zeppelin collateral material, and much, much more!
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Cherrystone Auctions
Rare Stamps and Postal History of the World - September 8-9, 2026
There are 1,242 lots, presented in four sessions, with United States including Postage Dues collection formed by Michael Farrell, with Proofs, Essays and Postal History, 19th and 20th Century rarities and graded items, European Countries, British Commonwealth, South and Central America, Asia, and Africa. There are selections from French, German and Italian Areas, Russia, with Romanov Proofs, newly discovered Essays and more. As always, there are 160+ large lots and collections, ranging from single country albums, specialized collections, multi-carton worldwide properties and Postal History cover lots.
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Mowbray Collectables
Public Stamp Auction - September 19, 2026
Mowbray Collectables' 49th bi-annual stamp auction features 913 lots totaling $1.3 million in estimates, from over 140 vendors and 260+ collections, 65 of them New Zealand. The standout lot is a New Zealand 1d orange Full Face Queen/Chalon on white paper, large star watermark, imperforate with four margins, from the first Richardson printing, extremely rare and not offered in 60 years, BPA certified, catalogued at £32,000, reserved at NZ$25,000, ex Dumas Spink 2000.
The Chalon/Full Face Queen selection is particularly strong, with 181 lots including four SG 1 examples (one mint, cat. £80,000, est. $40,000) and a mint imperforate 6d brown block of four (est. $15,000), plus many quality items at accessible estimates. New Zealand highlights include a mint 1d Claret (est. $12,000), a 1905 "On Public Service Only" official cover with five overprints (est. $15,000), an 1846 entire with a rare "Russell" boxed handstamp, one of only two known (est. $10,000), and a newly discovered, unrecorded 2006 90c Kapa Haka self adhesive (est. $5,000). Also featured: a Queen Victoria Long Types mint collection to £5, quality Pacific territory rarities (Cook Islands, Niue, Samoa), and an unseen family archive of 1901–13 British Antarctic Expedition correspondence. British material includes 57 lots of GB 1d Blacks (mostly ex Ian Hawken), and American collectors will find six lots of USA postal history from 1784–1873, ex Bob Watson.
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Stampedia Auction Japan, inc
Worldwide Public Auction, especially strong in Japanese philately - October 2-3, 2026
Stampedia's Auction, Japan Sale 39, spans nearly 1,800 lots covering the full breadth of Japanese philately, from the earliest 1871 Dragon issues in mon and sen currencies through Cherry Blossom, Bird, and Koban series, into 20th century definitives, commemoratives, and modern issues up to 2025. Strong postal history sections include Meiji era covers and cancellations, military and prisoner of war mails from the Russo Japanese War and Pacific War, Japanese post offices in Korea and China, and incoming mail to Japan. The sale also features Ryukyu Islands material and extensive Japanese occupation issues covering China, Malaya, Burma, Sumatra, Java, the Philippines, and Manchuria.
Beyond Japan proper, the catalogue extends into broader Asian philately (Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, India, and Southeast Asia) and a substantial international section spanning Great Britain and the Commonwealth, France and its former territories, German states, Central and Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Russia and the USSR, the Americas, and Africa. Specialized categories round out the sale, including Zeppelin mail, proofs and essays, topical and thematic collections, and postcards.
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Universal Philatelic Auctions
Wonderful Worldwide Postal Auction with No Buyer's Premium - October 6, 2026
Universal Philatelic Auctions presents one of their most valuable mail bid sales to date, offering 21,466 lots valued at £2,134,743 GBP ($2,732,471 USD), continuing their 25 year tradition of Reducing Estimate Auctions with no buyer's premium. The sale spans worldwide material including collections, sets, singles, covers, proofs, high values, rarities, and topicals, with particular strength in classic Great Britain high values, British Empire, British Africa, British North America, India, Europe, British Asia, China, and the USA, among many other regions.
Top-end GB rarities anchor the sale, led by an 1840 Rainbow Trial 1d blue marginal pair with a black Maltese Cross cancellation experiment, and an 1841 1d red-brown "black plate" 2 example with a detailed forensic certificate of authenticity. Other standouts include an 1873-80 4d vermilion imprimatur with RPS certification, an 1841 2d violet-blue on tinted paper with a 2025 Brandon certificate, and a Mulready 1d envelope used on its first day of issue. The collections and accumulations run equally deep, with sizeable Commonwealth, European, and worldwide lots such as a Liechtenstein and Switzerland shoebox estimated in excess of £7,000 catalogue value, an East Germany and Russian Zone album valued at £3,750, and a 1935 KGV Silver Jubilee mint collection assembled chronologically across the full Commonwealth.
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Universal Philatelic Auctions
Wonderful Worldwide Postal Auction with No Buyer's Premium - October 6, 2026
Universal Philatelic Auctions presents one of their most valuable mail bid sales to date, offering 21,466 lots valued at £2,134,743 GBP ($2,732,471 USD), continuing their 25 year tradition of Reducing Estimate Auctions with no buyer's premium. The sale spans worldwide material including collections, sets, singles, covers, proofs, high values, rarities, and topicals, with particular strength in classic Great Britain high values, British Empire, British Africa, British North America, India, Europe, British Asia, China, and the USA, among many other regions.
Top-end GB rarities anchor the sale, led by an 1840 Rainbow Trial 1d blue marginal pair with a black Maltese Cross cancellation experiment, and an 1841 1d red-brown "black plate" 2 example with a detailed forensic certificate of authenticity. Other standouts include an 1873-80 4d vermilion imprimatur with RPS certification, an 1841 2d violet-blue on tinted paper with a 2025 Brandon certificate, and a Mulready 1d envelope used on its first day of issue. The collections and accumulations run equally deep, with sizeable Commonwealth, European, and worldwide lots such as a Liechtenstein and Switzerland shoebox estimated in excess of £7,000 catalogue value, an East Germany and Russian Zone album valued at £3,750, and a 1935 KGV Silver Jubilee mint collection assembled chronologically across the full Commonwealth.
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