ABOUT AUCTION

 

Our upcoming Live Bidding Auction #104
will be held on May 29 - 30, 2025

The Online Catalog of Auction #104 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 a printed catalog.
You can download a PDF file with the Description of Auction #104 lots (without images - 820 KB) by clicking cat104.pdf.
You can also download a Text File (without images - 340 KB) in Word format by clicking cat104.zip.

We will accept bids for Auction #104 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 #104 will be held in two sections.

The Sale contains 1202 lots of Worldwide Air Post stamps and postal history, One Man Collection of Tannu Tuva, and Philatelic Rarities of the World. This Sale represents the property of 24 owners.

The Auction comprises:

• Worldwide Air Post stamps and covers, including rare African and Middle East First Flights, Zeppelin Flight items with origins of Canal Zone, Honduras, Kuwait, British Palestine, Swaziland, Zanzibar, etc.;
• United States - Classic stamps, proofs, modern imperforate, and color omitted varieties;
• Nice selection of Great Britain and the British Commonwealth, with:
  - Rare Stamps, Proofs and Errors of British North America and Canada;
  - Valuable items of Australia and States, Malta, North Borneo, and Labuan, Never Hinged Collection of Zanzibar;
  
• The award-winning One Man Collection of Tannu Tuva, including exceptional philatelic rarities, such as proofs, perforation errors, elusive postal history, and three extremely rare stationery envelopes;
• Nice range of plate proofs from the Republic of Georgia;
• Desirable items from Finland, France and Territories, Liechtenstein, and Portuguese Colonies;
• Delightful Russian Imperial material with nice postal stationery items, outstanding proofs of 7k and 10k from 1908-1909, 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, valuable Semi-Postal, Air Post and various back of the book material;
• Beautiful Wenden, Offices in Levant, Locals of South Russia material, including rare stamps and nice positional pieces;
• Great single lots from Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Baltic States with rare stamps, 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;
• Great rarities of Carpatho-Ukraine from the Jiří Majer Estate, representing inverted surcharges on the Chust issue (three-four copies were printed);
• Countries of the World presented with valuable lots from Afghanistan, Albania, Argentina, Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Republic of Korea, Liberia, Libya, Mexico, Monaco, Mongolia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Vatican City, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, and many more.

Raritan Stamps, Inc.