Mar 1: Siegel Auctions (US) ~ Sale #1004 The Gordon Eubanks Collection of the U.S. 1869 Pictorial Issue. Download catalogue.
Mar 2: Warwick & Warwick (UK) ~ Stamps Sale 667. Visit auction’s site. Worldwide stamps auction featuring 883 lots.
Mar 2: Siegel Auctions (US) ~ Sale #1005 The “New Amsterdam” Collection of City Despatch Post. The city despatch post was established in New York City in February 1842. According to an account published in 1894 and provided by Charles Windsor, the post was founded by his father, Henry Thomas Windsor, a London merchant who at the tme was living in Hoboken, New Jersey. Inspired by Rowland Hill’s postal reforms in Great Britain, Windsor and his friend, Alexander M. Greig, started operating the City Despatch Post during the first week of February 1842, in time for the busy Valentine season. Greig was advertised as the post’s “agent,” and his name is usually used alone by historians and philatelists when referring to the post’s proprietor. Download catalogue.
Mar 2-3: Siegel Auctions (US) ~ Sale #1006 The Wagshal Collection, Part 4: Perforated One-Cent 1857-60 Issue. This fourth and final part of the series of Wagshal sales presents the perforated 1¢ stamps, produced by Toppan Carpenter and issued from mid-1857 until all circulating postage stamps were demonetized in 1861 with the outbreak of the Civil War. The 1857-61 perforated 1¢ stamps were created in the same manner as the earlier imperforate stamps, except for some modifications intended to provide more space for perforation holes between the stamps. Download catalogue.
Mar 5: Prestige Philately (AU) - Auction #162 “The World at War”. Postal services during wartime in four discrete sections: 1. Russell Stern’s Australian Military Mail. The World War II conflicts in North Africa, Mediterranean, Palestine & Borneo, 2. Accumulation of civil censorship mail of the British Empire formed by John Little from England, 3. Australian material, from WWI POWs in New South Wales, and the balance of John Little’s censor mail, from the Great War and 4. G. Darge’s Gold Medal exhibit of “New Zealand Forces in WWI”. Visit auction’s site. Download catalogue.
Mar 7-12: Philatelie Christoph Gärtner (DE) ~ Auction #17 is composed by seven catalogues. 1. India & Indian States, 2. Asia, 3. Overseas and thematics, 4. Europe, 5. Germany, 6. Collections and 7. Rarities. So you will find a very special selection of fantastic stamps and covers as an extract of the more than 24.000 lots. Visit auction’s site.
Mar 9-10: Cavendish Philatelic Auctions (UK) ~ The Bentwaters’ Collection of Mulreadies with over 100 covers, plus over 100 1d Black and 1d Red covers. The Dr. James Kyle CBE, FRCS, FRPSL Collections of the British Empire, with Australia, New Zealand, West Africa, and more. The Admiral Collection of Canada formed by the late Sandy Mackie, with foreign destination covers (Java, Mexico, Seychelles etc.), WWI censors, advertising mail. The John Bodman Collection of Papua (with Cocos Is.), an astonishing new discovery: an original find of 1870s stamped covers to Thailand (3 surface printed frankings from GB earlier than any item in the ‘Wheat’ Collection).
Mar 14: Soler y Llach (ES) ~ Worldwide stamps and postal history. Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czechoslovakia, Danish WI, Ecuador, Egypt, France & French colonies, Germany & states, GB & British commonwealth, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Italy, Levant, Mexico, Netherlands, Palestine, Philippines, Portugal, Russia, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Uruguay, USA & Venezuela and much more. Download catalogue. Visit auction’s site.
Mar 17: Grosvenor (UK) ~ British Empire. The Lord Cornwallis Collection of Australia with Gambia, Gibraltar and Malta. An outstanding auction of 553 lots, including exceptional rarities of the Kangaroo and King George V Head issues of Australia. Download catalogue.
Mar 17: Apex Philatelic Auctions (UK) ~ Sale #106 is a 6500 lot general world sale. It includes extensive sections of Germany, Liechtenstein, Austria and Switzerland, the majority from the purchase in November of the entire stock of Leo Baresch Ltd., one of the world’s foremost dealers in the stamps of those countries (and who will be familiar to most serious collectors thereof). For single items, we draw your attention to lot 495 GB 1902 Board of Education 1/- green and carmine fine used, with 2007 BPA Cert. Cat £4500, lot 491 GB 1882 IR Official £1 green ‘TA’ with framebreak fine used. Cat £4500, Lot 1721 Bermuda 1938 line perf 10/- yellow green and carmine u/m [very slight gum toning as always found on this printing) and with variety “Lower right scroll with broken tail.” Cat £4000 1938 line perf 10/- yellow green and carmine u/m, with variety “Lower right scroll with broken tail.” Cat £4000, (plus several other varieties of this issue), lot 1858 British Virgin Isles 1857 (GB) 1d rose red ‘star’ used with fine strike of ‘A13’ cancel, a lovely example, very scarce. Cat £3750. Visit auction’s site.
Mar 19: Ron Leith Auctions (CA) ~ Sale #43 Stamps and postal history of Canada and United States.
Postal History auction highlights: includes the entire Tripo Costello Postcard Stock along with his famous Santa Clause Collection, the Wally Gutzman Canada Fancy Cork Cancel Collection, the “Calgary Collection” of Postal Artifacts comprising over 200 Canada postal hammers, part one of the Lila Walcer lifetime collection of British Royalty Memorabilia noting signed photos of King George-V and Queen Mary, a scarce group of USA General McClellan Civil War Patriotic Covers, a rare Amelia Earhart autographed cover (lot #782), and part one of the Donald Rogan Railroad Collection of RPO cancels, maps, books, and ephemera.
Stamp auction highlights: the Canada section includes the “Vernon Collection” of Superb Mint and Used Canada Classic Stamps, an extremely rare Newfoundland 5 Pence Favour “CANCELLED” Stamp that resulted in a British political scandal (lot #2476), the finest collection of Canada Coil Start and End Strips that we have ever offered, a fully operational USA Schermack Experimental Coil Vending Machine, the massive stock of recently retired packet dealer Hank Vander Veen, the Bill Anderson Precancel Collection listed as one of the top 10 collections in the Precancel Survey, and an outstanding collection of Canada Christmas Seals that includes many of the rare proofs. Visit auction’s site.
Mar 23: Stanley Gibbons (UK) ~ Worldwide Postal Bid Auction #220. Noteworthy sections in this auction include: Good selection of Bermuda, China, Ascension, Bahamas, Barbados, St. Helena, Malaya, Hong Kong, and Great Britain surface printed. Visit auction’s site.
Mar 25-26: Postiljonen (SE) ~ The “Leif Ericsson” Large Gold Collection of classic Iceland. Classic Sweden, Iceland, Norway and Portugal. Exhibition collection classic Denmark. Download catalogue.
Mar 28: Lugdunum Philatélie (FR) ~ France, French Colonies and Worldwide. Visit auction’s site.
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