ABOUT AUCTION

 

Our upcoming Live Bidding Auction #89
will be held on April 15 - 17, 2021

The Online Catalog of Auction #89 is posted on the website with full-color images.

If you would like to view our lots and place bids, please click the CATALOG.

To download the Catalog of Auction #89 in a zip archive of the file in Word format, click cat89.zip

We will accept bids for Auction #89 through our website as usual 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 #89 will be held in three sections.

The Sale contains 1567 lots, including rare stamps and postal history of the World. This Sale represents the property of 41 owners

The Auction comprises:

• Autographs of American Politicians, Sportsmen and other Famous People from the Collection of Frank M. Rudon
• United States - Classic stamps, proofs, modern imperforated varieties and color errors;
• Nice selection of Great Britain and British Commonwealth, with:
  - Valuable stamps, Proofs and Errors of Canada,
  - Beautiful Collection of Malaysia and States, including strong Japanese Occupation items,
  - Comprehensive Collection of Ireland,
  - Valuable items of North Borneo and Labuan, Rhodesia, St. Helena, Saint Lucia, and Sarawak;
  
• Perfect items from Albania, including a nice range of Double-Headed Eagle overprints;
• First Class rarities of Austria, including a group of modern imperforate varieties;
• Strong German area material, including Offices, Colonies, and Occupation items of World War I and II;
• Excellent Italy and Colonies, including numerous perforation errors and varieties with Roman Legionary from Libya, the error of color in never hinged block of four;
• Clean lots of valuable Japan, including early singles and blocks in mint never hinged condition;
• Fabulous Classic Romania, starting with Moldavia-Walachia items and strong proofs from the end of 19th and beginning of 20th Centuries;
• TRADITIONALLY COMPREHENSIVE RUSSIAN MATERIAL:
  - Imperial Postage Stamps and Postal History includes early stationery items, beautiful Classic sets in singles and blocks, valuable proofs, and various postal history material;
  - Soviet Union Section starts with early postal stationery items, imperforated blocks of Esperanto from 1927 and 20th Anniversary of the Red Army from 1938, numerous proofs and varieties from 1930-60's, imperforated errors from 1970-90's;
  - Lot #1127 representing Moscow Philatelic Exhibition, the only known Specimen of the "Kartonka" souvenir sheet;
  - Russian Semi-Postal and Air Post Sections are including nice lots of Philately for Children and For the Labor, iconic Airplane "Fokker 111" 5r green with wide "5" variety in mint never hinged condition, Chelyuskin Voyage complete set of postcards and other rarities;
  - nice selection of Non-Postal stamps, beautiful lots of Offices in China and Turkish Empire, rare multiples of Wrangel's Army issues
  
• Great range of single lots from Armenia, the Baltic States, and Tannu Tuva with rarities and positional pieces;
• Classic Ukraine, representing a strong range of various Trident Overprints, notable items from Dr. Seichter, Dr. Zelonka, and other World-class Collections, there are a few lots of Ukrainian DP Person Camps also;
• Worldwide lots from Afghanistan, China and People's Republic of China, Crete, France and Territories, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Iran, Korea and North Korea, Liberia, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, Vatican City, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, and many more;
• Several Worldwide Collections and Thematic issues, including North Pole Exploration, Air Post items, Chess, as well as Album of the Fournier Forgeries.

If you would like to get a complimentary printed copy, please register and order it on-line or by e-mail at catalogue@raritanstamps.com.

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