ABOUT AUCTION

 

Our upcoming Live Bidding Auction #102
will be held on December 4 - 5, 2024

The Online Catalog of Auction #102 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 #102 lots (without images - 800 KB) by clicking cat102.pdf.
Also, you can download a Text File (without images - 250 KB) in Word format by clicking cat102.zip.

We will accept bids for Auction #102 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 #102 will be held in two sections.

The Sale contains 1231 lots of Worldwide Air Post Stamps and Postal History, Philatelic Rarities of the World. This Sale represents the property of 28 owners.

The Auction comprises:

• Worldwide Pioneer and Zeppelin Flight Postal History and Air Post Stamps, including rare Trieste Zone B Esperanto miniature sheets;
• United States - Classic stamps, proofs, modern imperforate and color omitted varieties;
• Nice selection of Great Britain and British Commonwealth, with:
  - Rare Stamps, Proofs and Errors of British North America and Canada;
  - Valuable items of Australia and States, Ireland, Malta, New Zealand, North Borneo and etc.;
  
• Valuable China of all regimes, including rare imperf between of the Mollendorf 9c in block of four (Chan #28Ma, C.v. $50,000 as two pairs);
• Desirable items from Finland, France and Territories, Germany with Occupation issues of the World War II, Italy and Colonies;
• Delightful Russian Imperial material with nice postal stationery items, early issues of 1858-75 in mint and mint never hinged condition with full original gum, as well as Romanov Dynasty items, complete sheet of Telegraph stamp;
• Soviet Union never hinged sets from 1930's, complete Year Sets of 1941-60, imperforate rarities of 1930's-1980's, valuable Semi-Postal, Air Post and various back of the book items;
• Beautiful Wenden, Offices in China and Levant, Locals of Siberia and South Russia material, including numerous rare stamps and valuable multiples
• Great single lots from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia with rare stamps, positional pieces and collections;
• Classic Ukraine includes a strong range of Trident Overprints from Kyiv, Kharkiv, Poltava, Odessa and Podilia, representing material from Dr. Seichter, Dr. Zelonka, and other renowned Collections;
• Imperforate errors and varieties of Modern Ukraine ;
• Several desirable pieces from Western Ukraine, including "shahi" error on 25h (Scott #53 var) and surcharge "shahiv" over Postage Due 50h on 42h chocolate (Scott #65), both are in never hinged condition;
• Over 80 lots of Carpatho-Ukraine from the Jiří Majer Estate, including practically complete collections of the first and second Uzhgorod surcharges as well as interesting stationery items from Mukachevo, Uzhgorod and Berehove;
• Countries of the World presented with valuable lots from Afghanistan, Albania, Argentina, Austria, Baltic States, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Japan, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Mongolia, Portuguese Colonies, Saudi Arabia, Tannu Tuva, Turkey, Vatican City, Vietnam, Yugoslavia and many more.

Raritan Stamps, Inc.