The philatelic world has lost a giant, we mourn the death of Bob Dumaine. Bob loved everything about stamps and stamp collecting.
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Feature Auctions
Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions, LLC
US & Possessions, British and Worldwide Stamps & Postal History - November 6-8, 2024
Featuring: The David Brode High Grade US Singles
, Pat Hatch Collection of US Airmails
, The “District” Collection of US including Inverts
, The “Hub City” Collection of Classic US
, The Leland Exhibition Collection of the 1¢ 1869
, Ward B. Masden US Engravers/Siderographers Single Items
, Patterson Collection of US Covers
, Falmouth Stamp & Coin Stock Part VI
, Lexus Quality US
, Norman E. Proctor III Collection Part II
, Fletcher Family US Collection Part II
, Richard C. Romano Part IV
, Plus the properties of 40 other consignors
Zanaria Aste
Italian and Worldwide postal history and rarities - November 9, 2024
This is their first auction on StampAuctionNetwork. Click the Request to Bid button on their Table of Contents page!
Welcome to Zanaria Aste Public Auction 12 - Italy and Worlwide postal history and rarities, featuring: Lombardy Venetia, extensive selection of rare stamps and covers, with world class rarities, hardly ever seen in auction, Other Italian States, large choice of items, particularly developed Palpal States, Sardinia and Sicily, Italian Kindom, with some very rare and unique lots, and an important choice of Error of Colors, Italian Area with Post Offices Abroad and Occupations, with some of the rarest stamps ever printed , Foreign stamps and covers, Collection and balance lots, with some very advanced and important collections of Italy, Albania, Austria, Island, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Russia and Sweden, among others.
Ava Auctions Limited
Specialized China and Worldwide Auction - November 9-11, 2024
This is their first auction on StampAuctionNetwork. Click the Request to Bid button on their Table of Contents page!
Welcome to our Auction 8 and our first listed on StampAuctionNetwork! This auction offers specialized China sales. Strong in Large Dragons, Dollar Dater, Empress Dowager, postal histories of Kouang Tcheou Wan and French military mails. You will also find postal history of Yunnan and Manchuria; Particular strength in Macao Crown issues and covers; Surprises in Foreign Posts and Emergency Postal Service and Modern Mongolian rarities.
Cherrystone Auctions
Rare Stamps & Postal History of the World - November 12-13, 2024
Our November 12-14, 2024 auction features solid selections of United States stamps and proofs (including further material from the Larry Brasler stock), Canada (with a fine example of 12p black), Great Britain & British Commonwealth, Israel, European Countries, with collection of Wayne Demarest's Germany and Colonies, old-time holding of Zbigniew Cianciara's Poland, Western Ukraine, solid Russia and rest of the world. There is an additional section of Mixed Frankings and Redirected Mail, formed by a European gentleman, with many interesting combination usages. As always, the sale contains 220+ large lots and collections, with individual country albums, worldwide accumulations in cartons, cover lots and much more.
Schuyler J. Rumsey Philatelic Auctions
The Dr. Armando Grassi Collection of Classic United States - November 13-14, 2024
Part Two of the Dr. Grassi Collection of Classic United States contains remarkable high-grade used singles with a stunning array of shades and cancellations starting with the 1847 Issue through the 1870-88 Bank Note Issue. The collection has been formed over the past 35 years and is one of the finest collections ever formed. Many of the graded stamps are the highest-awarded examples.
Gert Mueller GmbH
124th Auction - November 19-23, 2024
The 124th international Gert Mueller Auction will take place from November 19th to 23rd 2024. It includes numerous rare single lots with many rarities from various European countries as well as Germany. Also many collections, large estates, postcards and cover lots will also be offered.
Harmers International, Inc.
Fall 2024 Auction - November 20, 2024
Harmers International's November 20th, 2024 auction of United States, British Commonwealth, and Foreign begins at 1PM Eastern Time. The sale contains over 400 lots with highlights of Postal History from around the world, strong Great Britain, Cape of Good Hope, Canada, Specialized Puerto Rico classics, Iraq, New Issues from the US and international. The sale also includes a lovely group of illustrated covers and over 110 lots of Collections and Various containing thousands of stamps and covers from the collections of Guy Dillaway, George Sayers, Bruce Mackey, Kathy Johnson, Dr. Cranston Holman and others.
Lot 1007 -
1938, Soldier in the War against Japanese Aggression (-) deep red (Yang NC8), with 11mm. sheet margin at top, bright color, large margins especially so at top, centrally canceled by "Hebei/Ling Shan" c.d.s. of 16 July 1938; two horizontal creases and light wrinkling at right, otherwise Very Fine. Est. HK$16,000-20,000....Est. HK$16,000-20,000
Sold for HK$ 26,000
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.
Soler y Llach
Numismatic Auction - November 6-8, 2024
Welcome to our latest auction featuring A Selection of coins from Ancient Greece to Spanish Monarchy and World Coins, with Gold coins and Buillon and Lots and Collections. It is a Public and Online |Mail Auction held in three days.
Darabanth Auction House Co., Ltd.
Mail Sale: Worldwide Philatelic Material, Numismatic and Postcards - November 9, 2024
StampAuctionNetwork welcomes Darabanth! Click the Request to Bid button on their Table of Contents page!
The auction offers 2703 items of rare philately and postal history along with more than 500 items of rare numismatic items from Hungary and worldwide. It also presents 2788 items of rare town-view and motive postcards from the Kingdom of Hungary and worldwide. Additional highlights: Classical Hungarian errors, imperforated issues from 1850 to 1957, Banknotes, coins, military items and some rare medals and more!
Schuyler J. Rumsey Philatelic Auctions
The Fall Sale - November 11-12, 2024
Our Fall Sale contains a vast array of material, including strong sections of New Zealand from the Robert Odenweller Collection , Nepal from the Frank Vignola Collection , Mexico, United States Stamps and Covers, Hawaii and over 450 lots of United States and Worldwide collection and balance lots. The sale will be held during our in our galleries. Additionally, we will offer two other separate catalogs which will include The Dr. Armando Grassi Collection of Classic United States (Part II) which contains a stunning array of material in superlative condition and a Specialized Sale of Important Mexico including The Omar Rodriguez Collection of the 1861 Hidalgo Issue and The Mishka Collection of the 1864-66 Eagle Issue .
Vance Auctions
Worldwide Internet/Mail Sale - November 13, 2024
Welcome to our November 13, 2024 auction with over 7,100 lots . Some highlights include: French Colonies including Colonies from Africa, the Pacific, West Indies, Asia, St. Pierre and Miquelon; strong United States covers including stampless, single and multiple frankings, advertising, and 2¢ Black Jack covers; excellent classic Canada; early Boy Scout postcards; solid Germany; useful philatelic literature; hundreds of intact country collections, estate lots and box lots; worldwide covers, postal history and postcards including France Ballon Monté covers and early South Georgia covers; coins with a nice selection of both gold and silver types. Bidding is in inexpensive Canadian dollars. No buyer’s fee.
Schuyler J. Rumsey Philatelic Auctions
Important Mexico - November 15, 2024
In this sale, we will feature two important collections of classic Mexico. The first is The Omar Rodriguez Collection of the 1861 Hidalgo Issue . This collection was formed over several decades with the aim complete the 1861 Hidalgo Issue from all of the early districts. This lofty goal was nearly achieved with only a handful of stamps missing for completion. The second collection is The Mishka Collection of the 1864-66 Eagle Issue which contains some of the finest stamps and covers of the issue to come on the market in many, many years.
David Feldman SA
Autumn Auction Series - France & French Collections and French Colonies - November 19-20, 2024
David Feldman is delighted to present its Autumn Auction Series, featuring over 7,500 lots – the largest offering in a decade. Our catalogues include Egypt; Switzerland – from classics to modern; Great Britain; British Empire – including Ireland; the Port Louis Collection of Mauritius; the largest offering the company ever presented of France and Colonies as well as our traditional Europe, Overseas and All World Collections. France & French Collections: This sale features over 900 lots of classic French philately, including rarities, semi-modern stamps, postal history, and Liberation issues, with strong covers and ballons montés. The Collections section should be a great success, with a rich, dense and diverse range of lots on offer. You'll find many collections in their original condition, some very good stocks for investors, and some very nice lots of postcards. French Colonies: The French Colonies auction offers a wide range of rare stamps and postal history items from across the French territories. Collectors will find scarce series and hard-to-find items that are often missing from traditional catalogues.
StampAuctionNetwork
Classic US, and Country Collection Lots - December 5, 2024
We start with a number of very high quality US Classics, including an 85E 12c Black Z Grill with a new PF cert graded 85J -- the only 85E graded jumbo from both the PF and PSE and a number of other top 10 in their censuses US Classics. In the classic area we also have an exceptional Canada 1868 3c Large Queen. We are continuing our efforts to bring new collectors to auctions by offering a number of starter country collection lots. Each of these lots were pulled from worldwide collections and sometimes combined to create the opportunity to get a good start on collecting a country at low cost.
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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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