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Feature Auctions
Phoenix Auctions
Worldwide Public Auction - September 9, 2024
A very warm welcome to our William Fraser Sale! While the William Fraser collection of large Specimen and CTO blocks is the prime focus for this sale it has been well supported by contributions from a select group of other collectors including Richard Peck’s Sydney Harbour Bridge Collection (highlighted with a pale blue wash). With new-to-the-market large blocks and rarely offered British Commonwealth, this auction offers a marvelous opportunity to acquire treasures to strengthen even the most advanced collection or exhibit. Some highlights: Record-size blocks of Specimens & CTOs, including type C Specimen blocks of 12 of 3rd Wmk £1 grey Lot 4027 (only a block of 8 & a block of 4 previously recorded) CTO blocks with 6d to 5/- and perf ‘OS’ 6d to 10/- Roo blocks of 12 and KGV ½d to 1/4d both normal and ‘OS’ in blocks of 12. The early commemorative stamps are also represented, for example the 2d & 3d Kingsford Smith ‘OS’ plate 8 block of 12 Lot 4145 and imprint block of 12 Lot 4147 respectively
BEHR Philatelie
Worldwide Internet/Mail Auction - September 12, 2024
Pascal Behr is proud to present you his Mail-Auction # 56. The auction will close on Thursday, September 12th, 2024. You will find many lovely pieces for every budget, starting at €20 and up to €300 000. Amongst those: a whole new chapter of Great-Britain and Commonwealth, with a new organization based on Stanley Gibbons (countries, numbers and quotations)
, a lovely chapter of France, French Colonies with lots of varieties.
, and at last, our rarities from France, French Colonies and Worldwide.
Vance Auctions
Worldwide Internet/Mail Sale - September 18, 2024
Welcome to our September 18, 2024 auction with over 7,300 lots. Some highlights: excellent United States 1869 covers including nice cancels, corner cards, and advertising; classic Canada with Pence issues including a 12 Penny Black, 1859's, Large and Small Queens and Jubilees; strong Gr. Britain including unused #1 and #2 with Certificates; Gr. Britain postal history and postcards; Canada OHMS Perfins; exceptional Cyprus; Italy including key stamps, good covers and postcards; aviation covers and postcards from a wide range of countries; hundreds of large lots including collections, accumulations, box lots and dealer stocks. Bidding is in inexpensive Canadian dollars. No buyer’s fee.
Mowbray Collectables
Public Stamp Auction - September 21, 2024
Welcome to our 45th sale. This bi-annual auction comprises 870 lots with estimates over $1.1M. We are privileged to feature several significant collections, including the balance of Patrick Brownsey's estate, the extensive world wide collections of Nicholas Cosh, extensive thematics ex Derek Lamb, good Rhodesia ex Julian Lang, Pacific ex Don Mee and outstanding NZ 1935 Pictorials ex Keith Moir. Some highlights include: Over 300 World collections including 40 New Zealand, Over 100 New Zealand Full Face Queen lots including a unique 1d London Print vertical pair, plus a single; an unlisted unused 4d yellow accidental imperf; plus a remarkable 2d vermilion plate 2 mint/MUH block of 14 from the damaged portion of the plate. In all over 2,500 FFQs!, Good range of New Zealand GV, Superb New Zealand 1935 Pictorials selection, incl a very scarce 2/- Captain Cook Die Proof. , 1d Claret Christchurch Exhibition mint, The unique NZ 1946 3d Peace Airforce missing blue colour, 8 x 1996 Teddy Bear Error lots incl two covers and a Capex miniature sheet, Teddy Bear Health error on commercial cover as well as a plate block of 6, Nice range NZ Fiscals QVLTs, Arms etc. and much more...
Universal Philatelic Auctions
Wonderful Worldwide Postal Auction with No Buyer's Premium - October 1, 2024
There are many POSTAL AUCTIONS but NONE like this… £2,745,396 GBP ($3,763,849 USD) worth in 30,046 lots and NO BUYER'S PREMIUM! The auction offers 30,046 lots to the value of £2,745,396 GBP ($3,763,849 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. It's so easy to test UPA - if you are a New Bidder you may qualify for UPA's Introductory Offer - £55 GBP ($70 USD) OFF your first invoice if you spend £75 GBP ($96 USD) or more**
Lot 1344 -
1954, 2c CARMINE ROSE ON SILKOTE PAPER IN COMPLETE SHEET OF 100 MINT NEVER HINGED, #1033a, plate #25061 in bottom left corner, very fine, with 2024 William T. Crowe cert., cat. $28,400.00....US$2,000
Sold for US$ 8,500
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
The Aflred Kugel Collection - Part II - September 10-11, 2024
Part two of the Alfred F. Kugel collection of Postal History of the world will be offered at our Teaneck, NJ galleries on Tuesday and Wednesday, September 10-11, 2024. This collection is being sold on behalf of the American Philatelic Society. We begin with United States Interventions, first in China, during the Boxer Uprising, then in Northern Mexico (looking for Pancho Villa). Spanish American War follows, with U.S. Army in the Caribbean, U.S. involvement in Haiti, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, registered mail from the A.E.F. and the U.S. Army and its Postal Service Abroad during WWII, including "Prexies at War" exhibit.
Cheshire Stamp Auctions (Sandafayre Public Auction)
Public Auction - September 12-14, 2024
The new major force on the UK's public auction scene offers the property of over 200 owners during a 3-day public auction. Whilst 'trade' buyers are visiting (we are close to Liverpool and Manchester airports with quick rail links to London) and bidding on our collections and accumulations, collectors are discovering many outstanding individual items. As you would expect from one of the world's largest stamp firms we calculate your shipping costs within a couple of days of the auction and can ship your lots without tiresome delays. Strength in British areas with large general Commonwealth collections and accumulation, plus hundreds of individual colony collections and items. There's plenty of non-British material too, such as a 36-volume collection of German 3rd Reich (estimate £9000). The final day sees over 500 lots of Great Britain going under the hammer.
Burda Auction, s.r.o.
Public Auction 76 - September 14, 2024
Dear philatelic friends, auction 76 consists of the comprehensive selection of Europe and Overseas, including strong sections of Austria, Great Britains with mint blocks of four Penny Black (ex Bill Gross) and Two Pence Blue and rare Commonwealth and British Empire with wide range of complete sets, high values and specialties. The sale also includes extensive selection of Czechoslovakia with for example famous rarity of postage-due stamp 50/50 H DOPLATIT. We are also pleased to introduce our special prestigious auction catalogues with the 3rd part of magnificent The Georg Wilhelms Hradčany Issue Exhibit and exhibit "Hradčany entires in the first postal rate period" by Jiří Škaloud plus much more.
Heinrich Koehler Auktionshaus
Public Auction: German and International Philately - September 19-28, 2024
Germany's oldest stamp auction house is celebrating a very special anniversary - 111 years of Heinrich Koehler - at its 384th auction from 19th-20th and 23rd-28th September 2024. Offering an extraordinary 7,480 lots, this long-established company is inviting customers and friends of the house to Wiesbaden for its autumn auction, where they can once again look forward to philatelic and postal history material at its finest. In addition to a total of ten catalogues, including eight special catalogues, a new book "111 Years of Heinrich Köhler" by Wolfgang Maassen will also be published in time for the anniversary, documenting the history of the company in detail, especially the past 11 years. Single lots and collections from: All World / Europe / Overseas, Airmail and Zeppelin, Thematics, Picture Postcards, Literature, Coins. Germany: German States, German Empire, German post offices abroad and Colonies, German Occupation WWI, German Areas and Plebiscites, Danzig, Memel, German Occupation WWII, Germany, Germany after 1945. Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia, Kingdom of Saxony – 'Frederick Augustus' and so much more!
Cherrystone Auctions
Rare Stamps and Postal History of the World - September 24-25, 2024
Our September 24-25, 2024 auction features solid selections of United States (including further material from the Larry Brasler stock), Canada, Great Britain & British Commonwealth, Latin and South America, European Countries, including Austria, France, Germany, Italy, as well as Poland, Russia, Spain and Switzerland. There is an old-world collection of Mixed Frankings and Redirected Mail, formed by a European gentleman, with an extraordinary selection of combination usages. Other areas areas are well represented, with China, Japan and Korea. As always, the sale contains 160+ large lots and collections, with individual country albums, worldwide accumulations in cartons, cover lots and much more.
Censuses, NFT Corner, White Papers and Newsletters
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
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