ABOUT AUCTION

 

Our upcoming Live Bidding Auction #101
will be held on August 21 - 22, 2024

The Online Catalog of Auction #101 is posted on the website with full-color images.

If you would like to view our lots and place bids, please click the CURRENT CATALOG.

This Auction will be conducted without printed catalog.
You can download a PDF file with Description of Auction #101 lots (without images - 800 KB) by clicking cat101.pdf.
Also, you can download a Text File (without images - 300 KB) in Word format by clicking cat101.zip.

We will accept bids for Auction #101 through our website and by mail, fax, e-mail, or phone. We guarantee acceptance of absentee bids if they are received no later than two hours before the beginning of each section.

Live Bidding Auction #101 will be held in two sections.

The Sale contains 1157 lots of rare stamps and postal history of the World. This Sale represents the property of 24 owners.

The Auction comprises:

• 200 lots of Worldwide Air Post stamps and covers, including Pioneer, Zeppelin Flight, and Rocket Flight items;
• United States - Classic stamps, proofs, modern imperforate varieties and color errors;
• Nice selection of Great Britain and British Commonwealth, with:
  - Rare valuable items of British North America and Canada, including Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee complete set of 16 large die proofs,
  - Beautiful range of Kings George V, George VI and Queen Elizabeth II definitive sets and "key" singles of different colonies,
  - Valuable items from Hong Kong, Malayan States, Rhodesia and St. Helena;
  
• Strong Austria and Bosnia material, including modern Austrian imperforate issues;
• Chinese material of all periods, including People's Republic part with Culture Revolution Directives of Chairman Mao in unfolded three-side margin block of four horizontal strips of five stamps;
• The Second Part of Czechoslovakia Collection represents powerful Semi-Postal section with "Posta Ceskoslovenska" overprints, Postage Due and Newspaper stamps single and large lots;;
• France and Territories, including strong France and French Colonies Collections in Scott Specialty Albums;
• Outstanding Italian area material with valuable Colonial items, many in multiples, notable Libyan color errors and perforation rarities of the Roman Legionary and Ancient Galley stamps;
• Valuable Eastern European countries single lots and collections, including Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland and Romania;
• Several single lots and collections from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Baltic States with rarities and positional pieces
• Great single lots from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia with rare stamps, positional pieces and collections;
• Russian Area includes nice Imperial material with valuable die proofs and several very interesting Postal History Collections, strong Soviet Union representing perforated and imperforate varieties from 1930's to 1990's, nice Semi-Postal, Air Post and Back of the Book items, as well as interesting Local Issues of the Civil War Period;
• Classic Ukraine representing range of rare Trident Overprints of many postal districts; notable items from Dr. Seichter, Dr. Zelonka, and other renowned Collections; ;
• Countries of the World presented with valuable items from Afghanistan, Argentina, Belgian Colonies, Iran, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Mongolia, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Vatican City, Vietnam, Yugoslavia and many more;

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