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Phoenix Auctions
Worldwide Public Auction - September 15, 2025
We are pleased to offer the Bob Parsons estate, Bob was a fastidious plating specialist, particularly the 9d Kangaroo & 2d Die I KGV Head. He was co-author of the 2 standard works on these stamps. His lots are spread throughout the auction, including in the NWPI section, and are all identified with Ex Bob Parsons at the end of the description, Just enter ‘Parsons’ in the description search to see all his lots. We are also offering a fine selection of lots relating to the Trans-Australian Railway, This is a special section at the end of the WA section (Lots 8542-8605). There is a fascinating array of postal history, postmarks, PPCs, ephemera, cinderellas etc from both the South Australian and the Western Australian portions of the line.
Heinrich Koehler Auktionshaus
Public Auction: German and International Philately - September 18-27, 2025
Europe and Colonies: Austria–Romania, Extracts from the "Elin" Collection, Russia–Western Ukraine, Russian Mail – The Jack Moyes Collection, Universal Postal Union ("UPU") and Its Impact on Global Postal Services, Great Britain – Queen Victoria: The Line Engraved Imperforate Adhesives – The Richard Frajola Collection, Great Britain and British Commonwealth, Overseas countries, Ship mail, Airmail and Zeppelin mail, Olympics, Numismatics, The Kiefersfelden Stamp Find – Great Britain, Ship Mail to 1945 – The Friedrich Steinmeyer Collection, German Reichspost – Shield issues 1872–1875 – The "Baghira" Collection (part II), The Dr. Heinz Jaeger Collection, Gdańsk – From pre-philately to 1945 – The Ton Hulkenberg Collection (part II) and Country collections: Europe, including Great Britain and British Commonwealth, Overseas.
Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions, LLC
Sports Cards, Memorabilia & Autographs Sale - September 19, 2025
Starting with Sports Card & Autograph Collections then continuing into non-sport cards featuring rare Pokemon Uncut Sheets, then into the plethora of graded Vintage Cards we are offering including Hall of Famers such as Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams, Hank Aaron, Jackie Robinson, & many more; highlighted by a 1954 Dan-Dee Potato Chips Mickey Mantle PSA 7 & a 1957 Topps #95 Mickey Mantle PSA 8; followed by Sport Card Complete Sets & various collections & groupings. Session 2 offers a variety of material relating to Pop Culture, Collectibles, & Memorabilia ; beginning with Autographs & Free Franks highlighted by signatures from Albert Einstein, Walt Disney, Amelia Earhart, Bela Lugosi, Ronald Reagan, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, & many more iconic figures in history; next is the Ephemera & Collectibles section with a variety of items from Artwork to Franklin Mint Products to a 20th Anniversary Macintosh Computer; then an assortment of collectible toys in original boxes
Paradise Valley Stamp Company
"Paradise Live" #S141 US & Worldwide Singles & Collections - September 20, 2025
We are looking forward to another fun sale with US incl. singles and back-of-the-book, Hawaii plate proofs, a fantastic Faroe Islands postal history collection offered in over 50 lots, an abundance of French Colonies country collections, a strong Germany section with numerous better mint never hinged sets and scarce authenticated field post stamps to top it off, France with singles and collections incl. French Offices in China collections, Canada and Provinces including very attractive Newfoundland, rare key values and varieties from German areas and a number of other countries.
abacus auctions
Australia, Australian Colonies & Territories, Pacific Islands and Worldwide Stamps, Postal History & Picture Postcards, Militaria & Medals, Coins & Banknotes, Sporting Memorabilia & Collectables - September 23-26, 2025
This auction offers almost 4000 lots with estimates in excess of A$3,000,000. The Australian Colonies feature with a rarity-style sale of single stamps & covers rounded out by numerous collection & single-issue study lots. Australia is highlighted by the David Adams' collection of 'Missing Colour' varieties. Pacific Islands includes overprint errors from Papua, plus Solomon Islands postal history. Asia, Arabia & Africa offers extensive China, Belgian Congo including two 'Inverted Centres' and Arabian Gulf aerogrammes. Rest of the World features hundreds of accumulations & box lots. Day 4 is devoted to Coins & Banknotes followed by Sporting Memorabilia featuring a wonderful section of Cricket as well as Cigarette & Trade Cards and General Collectables.
ROUMET Philatélie
Roumet Philatélie • Worldwide Mail Auction 574 - September 30, 2025
Gwenael Roumet is pleased to announce the new Mail Auction: The 574th Mail Auction is online, closing date Tuesday September 30th, 2025. This auction features a beautiful selection of French classic stamps, 20th-century varieties. French colonies including Saint-Pierre et Miquelon "France Libre". Various countries such as Switzerland, Italy. Diverse lots and collections.
Dutch Country Auctions
Coin & Currency Sale #43 - October 9, 2025
This sale offers collectors a nice selection of certified better-date Lincoln Cents (including an uncertified 1955 Double Die) most coming from a prominent Delaware collection. Also important is continuation of offerings of Bust Halves consigned by a St. Louis collector. Seated Quarters are well-represented from a recent New Jersey purchase. Per the norm, a wide range of silver and gold bullion items are in the sale, as well as a wide range of Morgan Dollars. A number of offset transfer errors highlight the small-size currency section, and spicing up the worldwide offerings is a broad selection of Notgeld (mostly German.) As usual, something for everyone!
Lot 1017 -
1901, 5c PAN-AMERICAN MINT NEVER HINGED GRADED '95', #297, exceptionally well-centered, extremely fine-superb, with 2025 William T. Crowe cert. graded '95', SMQ $1,350.00....US$500
Currently US$ 500
Lot 118 -
St. Pierre & Miquelon. Starter Collection Lot made from Scott Internationals and Minkus Globals up into the 2007s. Over 32 mostly filled pages - estimate $50-100.....Suggested Bid
Sold for US$ 145
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.
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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
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SAN live bidders to $1,734,000. Thank you live bidders!
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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!
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Daniel Kelleher Sale.
MintProducts Auctions
Online Rare Coin & Currency Auction #116 - September 16-16, 2025
Welcome to MintProducts Auctions September #116 auction! Our latest sale offers 537 mostly unreserved lots including over 100 lots of currency, more than 100 lots of silver dollars and over 50 lots of U.S. gold coins. The sale is highlighted by an NGC XF-45 CAC 1839/6 large cent (Lot 125) - one of the finest known! This rarity is being sold unreserved - so get your bids in today! Thanks for bidding and enjoy the sale!
Heinrich Koehler Auctions
The Richard Frajola Collection - September 19, 2025
On April 15, 1840 the first two sheets of postage stamps in the world were printed. Examples from each of these first sheets are highlight of the Richard Frajola collection of Great Britain Line Engraved issues. The sale includes stamps and covers of rarely seen imperforates of Queen Victoria's line-engraved stamps. These include imprimaturs (stamps removed from the first registration sheets printed from a new plate) as well as special pieces including: imperforate issued stamps, specimen overprints, fugitive ink trials, royal reprints, Neale's steam press trial, Dr Perkins trials on blued security paper and stamps on Dickinson paper with security thread.
Imprimatur sheets were sent to Somerset House for approval. Those that remain have a few individual stamps removed and those are now held in the Royal collection, private collections or lost. Some imprimatur sheets, such as those of the 1840 two pence issue, do not exist.
AB Philea
Online Coin Auction - September 20, 2025
Welcome to AB Philea's coin auction no 34, held live at our website, www.philea.se on 20 September 2015.
The auction contains over 1600 selected coins, medals, bank notes and collections.
Timetable: (all times are local time)
Saturday 20 September:
10:00 – Sweden (lot numbers 1–970)
15:00 – Rest of the world (lot numbers 971–1683)
Via Stamp Auction Network you can place bids in US currency (USD) and all reserves and openings are displayed in USD, using a fixed exchange rate set at the publication of the auction (1 USD = 9.75 SEK).
Please note: We do not accept bids below the reserve!
Mowbray Collectables
Public Stamp Auction - September 20, 2025
Featuring New Zealand’s rarest stamp.
We are delighted to offer New Zealand’s rarest stamp as lot 1 in our auction – The legendary 4d Lake Taupo Invert is New Zealand’s rarest and most celebrated philatelic error. This iconic stamp features a dramatic inverted centre, the scenic depiction of Lake Taupo printed upside down within the frame, resulting from a remarkable printing mishap during the bicolour production. The only example known, the stamp is the ultimate rarity in New Zealand’s classic issues. This is listed as SG 322c in the Stanley Gibbons catalogue and widely regarded as NZ’s most valuable stamp. A once in a generation opportunity to acquire the pinnacle of New Zealand philately. This stamp is offered on behalf of New Zealand Post, and has a reserve of NZ$225,000.
Stampedia Auction Japan, inc
Worldwide Public Auction, especially strong in Japanese philately - September 26-27, 2025
The first Japanese auction house listed in Stamp Auction Network! With 1600++ lots on offer. Our latest sale is sure to have something for everyone! We have 1000++ nice Japanese mainland materials including 100++ classic etched stamps, including the famous dragon stamps. We also offer 450++ nice overseas lots, as well as 150++ Japanese Occupation. You can participate live-bidding system of Philasearch and of course you can make book-bids through S.A.N.
Universal Philatelic Auctions
Wonderful Worldwide Postal Auction with No Buyer's Premium - October 7, 2025
The auction offers 22519 lots to the value of £2,356,646 GBP ($2,999,367 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.
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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
More details and info on how to request a census (here)
NFT Corner.
"Primer on NFTs and Blockchain for Philatelists" (here...).
The Day of the Dead Revisited - The USPS NFTs and VeVe (here...).
Crypto Stamps and NFTs? From "Exploring Stamps" channel (here...).
