ABOUT AUCTION

 

Our upcoming Live Bidding Auction #105
will be held on November 13 - 14, 2025

The Online Catalog of Auction #105 is now available 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 #105 lots (without images - 840 KB) by clicking cat105.pdf.
You can also download a compressed Text File (without images - 250 KB) in Word format by clicking cat105.zip.

We will accept bids for Auction #105 through our website, by mail, fax, e-mail, or phone. We guarantee acceptance of absentee bids if they are received no later than two hours before the start of each section.

Live Bidding Auction #105 will be held in two sections.

The Sale contains 1146 lots of Worldwide Air Post stamps and postal history, Philatelic Rarities of the World. This Sale represents the property of 18 owners.

The Auction comprises:

• About 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 Diamond Jubilee of 1896 and miscellaneous modern rarities;
  - Collection of British New Guinea and Papua;
  - Beautiful range of King George V, George VI, and Queen Elizabeth II definitive sets and "key" singles of different colonies;
  
• Valuable Germany with nice lots of Memel and Upper Silesia, the World War II Occupation lots of St. Nazaire, Kotor, Lithuania, and Sarny;
• Outstanding Italian area material with valuable Colonial items, many in multiples, notable Libyan color errors, and perforation rarities;
• Several single lots and collections from the Baltic States, Tannu Tuva, and Transcaucasian Republics with rarities and positional pieces;
• Imperial Russia and Soviet Union are representing numerous rarities, beautiful collections and balances, nice Semi-Postal, Air Post and Back of the Book items, some interesting Non-Postal stamps, Civil War Locals including valuable Nikolayevsk-on-Amur surcharges;
• Russian Zemstvo section includes outstanding range of about 200 lots representing valuable items from Faberge, Liphschutz, and Bianchi Collections;
• Classic Ukraine representing Odessa Trident Overprints, several local overprints, and some nice cancellations;
• Countries of the World presents valuable items from Austria and Bosnia, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Iceland, Indonesia, Israel and Judaica, North Korea, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Mongolia, Philippines, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Syria, Vatican City, Venezuela, Vietnam, and many more.

Raritan Stamps, Inc.