ABOUT AUCTION

 

Our upcoming Live Bidding Auction #103
will be held on March 20 - 21, 2025

The Online Catalog of Auction #103 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 #103 lots (without images - 800 KB) by clicking cat103.pdf.
You can also download a Text File (without images - 250 KB) in Word format by clicking cat103.zip.

We will accept bids for Auction #103 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 #103 will be held in two sections.

The Sale contains 1173 lots of Worldwide Air Post Stamps, and Postal History, Philatelic Rarities of the World. It represents the property of 23 owners.

The Auction comprises:

• 150 lots of Worldwide Air Post stamps and covers, including various Pioneer and Zeppelin Flight items;
• United States - Classic stamps, proofs, modern imperforate varieties and color errors;
• Nice selection of Great Britain and the British Commonwealth, with:
  - Rare valuable items of British North America and Canada, including plate proofs of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee of 1896 and miscellaneous modern rarities;
  - Beautiful range of Kings George V, George VI, and Queen Elizabeth II definitive sets and "key" singles of different colonies;
  - Significant items from Hong Kong, Rhodesia and Sudan;
  
• Strong Austria and Bosnian, including modern Austrian imperforate issues
• People's Republic of China items, including Mei Lan-fang souvenir sheet in premium quality;
• Valuable Germany with the World War II Occupation lots of Kotor, Lithuania, Montenegro, Serbia, Ukraine and Zara, as well as several collections of Allied Occupation of Germany in 1945-46;
• Outstanding Italian area material with impressive Colonial items, many in multiples, remarkable Libyan color errors and perforation rarities, nice San Marino and Vatican City;
• Several single lots and collections from Baltic States, Tannu Tuva, and Transcaucasian Republics with rarities and positional pieces;
• Russian Area includes nice Imperial material with valuable die proofs and several very interesting Postal History Collections, notable Soviet Union representing Moscow Philatelic Exhibition "Kartonka" souvenir sheet in museum quality, nice Semi-Postal, Air Post, and Back of the Book items, some interesting Non-Postal stamps, Civil War Locals including surcharge errors of South Russia;
• The small Russian Zemstvo section includes two first-class rarities – Glazov stamp of 2k with inverted background (Schmidt #10M 1, rank RRRR and C.v. $50,000) and Lubny stamp of "Annual Subscription" in brown on vertically laid paper (Large Zemstvo Cat. #6 P, C.v. $25,000)
• Classic Ukraine representing a range of rare Trident Overprints of many postal districts; notable items from Dr. Seichter, Dr. Zelonka, and other renowned Collections, plus a nice range of Regensburg DP Camp issues of 1947-48;
• Countries of the World presented with valuable items from Belgium and Belgian Colonies, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Guatemala, Israel and Judaica, North Korea, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Mongolia, Philippines, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Vatican City, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yugoslavia and many more.

Raritan Stamps, Inc.