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Featured Auctions!
ROUMET Philately - Worldwide Mail Auction - January 28, 2020
Alexandre Roumet is pleased to announce that his new ROUMET Mail Auction #555 is online, FRANCE, Ceres, Sage, 20th Century, Napoleon III, precancels, varieties, Air Mail stamps, coil of stamps, Liberation, stamp boxes, scales, etc...; FRENCH COLONIES, including specialised collection of Guadeloupe, Saint Pierre et Miquelon, Sarre, and more; WORLDWIDE stamps and covers, including Germany, Switzerland, and more...
Spink USA - The Freshwater Collection of United States - January 28, 2020
The Freshwater Collection of United States features many exceptional items
of United States philately not seen on the market in decades. Highlights
include the largest known block of the famed #7 major cracked plate, an
impressive franking of nine #70c on cover, a superior selection of 1875
Re-Issues of the 1861-66 Issue, and much more.
Sandafayre Ltd. - Internet/Mail Sale - January 28, 2020
With over 3000 lots our latest sale is sure to have something for everyone! We have everything from sought after single stamps and sets to exhibition standard collections and even multi-carton sorter lots! Make sure you don't miss the following: More From The "Tremendous Collection On Imperial Pages; Australia - Fabulous Range With Strength In Kangaroos; GB 1840 Choice 1D Black Selection; Hong Kong - Exceptional Pre 1938 Ranges; Leeward Islands - Lovely Collection With Specimens And Varieties; Portugal A
nd Colonies; Spain - Fabulous Collection With Rarities plus hundreds of Commonwealth lots, Great Britain lots, European lots – All countries in the world from Aden to Zululand! There are also some great sorter lots and collections. Remember, ALL THE LOTS WE SELL COME WITH A 100% SATISFACTION GUARANTEE!
Vance Auctions Ltd. - Worldwide Internet / Mail Sale - January 29, 2020
Welcome to Vance's annual January auction. Here are some highlights: good Western Europe particularly Belgium, Germany and France; excellent Canada imperforate pairs plus rare classics; United States from 19th Century classics up to modern errors; interesting pre 1940 Estonia and Latvia revenues; Newfoundland with many key items, imperforate pairs, proofs and varieties; hundreds of lots of better calibre world covers, postal history, and postcards; philatelic literature; specialized collection of Great B
ritain Penny Red #33 Plate Reconstructions with over 25,000 different estimated at $20,000 Cdn; hundreds of larger lots, collections, accumulations and boxes full with Canada, Br. Commonwealth, Foreign and Worldwide. No buyer’s fee. Major credit cards accepted. Bids can be submitted via SAN, email, telephone or fax. Bidding will continue until Midnight EST on Wednesday, January 29, 2020.
Stanley Gibbons - The Uttama Series of Indian States - January 29-30, 2020
Stanley Gibbons is proud to inaugurate the Uttama series of Indian States Auctions. After the notable success of the Gaur sale of India and States in 2019, Stanley Gibbons Auctions is pleased to have been entrusted with two further important properties comprising material from the Sub-continent. It is a remarkable circumstance that there is absolutely no overlap between the Domingo collection (focused on India and Convention States) and now the ‘Uttama’ collection, exclusively of Feudatory States. Togeth
er they present a tremendous offering, demonstrating that London continues to be the centre of the global philatelic market, and underlining our credentials as the most trusted auctioneers of India and Indian States collections. The extensive Uttama collection will be split over several sales, with states initially being offered alphabetically.
Phoenix Auctions - Worldwide Public Auction - January 31, 2020
Auction 76 starts 9:30 local time with the following schedule: Part 1 is our normal BoxLot auction; Part 2 Session 1 - Australia & Colonies with Roos, KGV range of varieties and shades; useful KGVI & QEII varieties, specimens etc. Of particular note is the 3d AIF blk of 4 with a ship engraved in the margin, range of POW camp Mail incl rare WA camps; Hugh Freeman’s NSW BNs start 2.00pm with many 4R & 5R cancels. There are Vic BNs as well with quite a few covers. Good range of SA & Tas Specimens. ; Part 2
Session 2 - Territories & Rest of World. Good NWPI range, Papua 1934 Declaration 5d error of colour, then mainly British Commonwealth incl GB 1840 1s black plate 1a wmk inverted and 1840 2b blue town cds. Also 1883-84 St Vincent colour trials.
Paradise Valley Stamp Company - Box & Country Lot Sale #F527- No Buyer's Premium - Free Shipping - January 31, 2020
Lots of singles and collection lots from a wide variety countries. Of note
are:
United States certified singles incl. Fancy Cancels,
Germany and Offices,
French Colonies,
Italy and areas incl. 1933 BALBO trip-tych sets,
France along with Monaco and Andorra,
British Commonwealth, and
Scandinavia
Lot 4442 -
MARTINIQUE, 1886, 05c on 4c CLARET ON LAVENDER MINT, #11, fresh, h.r., fine-very fine, signed Brun, Scheller and one other, rare, cat. $1,500.00, Maury #9I @ €1,850.00....$750
Currently US$ 750
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 Agent 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.
SAN Agent 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 Agent 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 tldroege@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.
Paradise Valley Stamp Company - Box & Country Lot Sale #F526 - No Buyer's Premium - Free Shipping - January 24, 2020
NO BUYER’S PREMIUM! A great collector’s sale with plenty of opportunities
for the savvy dealer as well. We hope you enjoy the offerings as much as we
did when we described the lots. This time we have added a number of US
Classic covers of which several has graced well-known collections.
Corbitts - Worldwide Public Auction - January 29, 2020
Our forthcoming auction of general world philatelic properties presents 1778 lots including numerous collections & boxed lots, stamps & postal history from Aden to Zululand.
Spink USA - The Winter Collector's Series Sale - January 29, 2020
Featuring the Professor Kenneth Cahn Collection of exceptional worldwide
stamps, the Alexander Lester-Burton Collection of the King George V Era,
specialized United States postal stationery, and extensive France &
Colonies and Worldwide collections.
Stanley Gibbons - The Malcolm Domingo Collection - January 28, 2020
Malcolm is a retired businessman and occasional artist. He joined the RAF in the 1950s, where he became a fencing champion and pilot. After leaving he ran a South London art business for many years, before retirement. He was born in India before the war and developed a lifelong interest in the country and its history. These have come together in this collection. For over thirty years, he specialized in the Convention States, with forays into covers from the same period, and India stamps overprinted in Za
nzibar. His love of collection later included classical Greek coins. Malcolm has a methodical and details approach to collecting, which is evident in the quality of all his collections. The extensive Uttama collection will be split over several sales, with states initially being offered alphabetically.
Paradise Valley Stamp Company - French Colonies Auction #C128 - No Buyer's Premium - January 29, 2020
For our new French Colonies sale we are pleased to offer some scarce and
rare items from French Colonies General Issues, French Guiana, Martinique,
Guadeloupe, Somali Coast, Reunion and French Congo, more covers from Togo
and Cameroun, specialized Algeria collections of regular issues with plate
flaws, French Colonies General Issues collections used in various colonies,
further French Africa and Asia incl. Benin, Diego Suarez, French Offices in
China, Reunion, French Equatorial Africa, French India, French Morocco,
Gabon, Ivory Coast, Grand Liban, Madagascar and much more. Several
attractive country colonies collection are listed at the beginning of the
sale.
Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions, LLC - Collections, Stocks and Accumulations of the World - January 31 - February 1, 2020
Over 1100 lots of stamp and postal history collections of the world, including:The Michael Keller Collection of U.S.; The Francis J. Sheeran Collection of Worldwide; The Seymour Winston Collection of Worldwide; The "Ridgefield" Collection and Stock of Worldwide; The Jack R. McClellan Collection of U.S.; The Scott Ward Collection of U.S. and Worldwide; The "King's Ransom" Collection Balance
Status International - Worldwide Public Auction - February 6, 2020
7836 lots catering for all types of collectors & dealers - from bulk accumulations and intact collections to desirable single items. A huge range of material, with special emphasis on lotting stamps to cater for collectors with varying types of interests and budgets. Well over 2,500 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 5,100 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 Asian and European rarities including India and Ceylon.
