A Traditional Philatelic Auction House — Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Sparks Auctions With the Labour Day long weekend past, we are still in the process of invoicing and shipping. Most local bidders have picked up their lots.
Much of the remaining material is organized, but some invoices still await exact shipping charges. We have sent almost all invoices, but please let us know if you were successful in the auction and have not heard from us.
Consignors will receive their post-auction notifications shortly.
We are continuing to organize material and prepare for shipping from our sale last week. Invoices are being sent as well.
Local bidders may pick up their lots beginning on Wednesday (August 28th).
Prices Realized for the sale can be seen at this link. Next week we will begin featuring some of the better and more interesting realizations from the sale.
Today begins the bulkiest but potentially most interesting part of the sale. We will see some great prices in the first few minutes, where we feature complete Canada collections that could well have been broken down into individual lots. Lot 1605 is a quite complete, clean, collection of Canadian revenues that will sell for more than $2000. A Winnipeg squared circle collection follows two lots later:
Lot 1607 Canada Winnipeg Squared Circle Collection, 1893 to 1905 of over 2,450 items. Everything is mounted according to hammer, time mark, date, month, and year. Includes approximately 660 hammer I stamps and covers, approximately 440 from hammer II and over 1,350 from Hammer III. As well, there are 2 from Hammer IV: one on a 1c Edward postal card (1904) and also on a 2c Edward stamp (1905). Of the above total, 280 plus are on Jubilees, incl. one 50c stamp. Collection has over 200 covers or postal stationery cards. Balance are on stamps or cut squares. An impressive collection, years in the making, housed in 3 large Scott binders. Est. $2,000, opening at $2100 (as of 7am August 22nd).
If you have been bidding live in our sale on Stamp Auction Network when the site went down (“The service is unavailable”), you will need to go to their home page and log in again before you can resume live bidding.
Today we have Commonwealth, International stamps, and Postal History. The Moseley Collection of Great Britain Penny Reds is a strong start to the session, with examples like this one:
Lot 712 Great Britain #3 var. 1841 1d red brown Queen Victoria, position IH, printed from black plate 2, four good margins, very fine. SG #7 £325. Est. $150, opening at $110 (as of 9am Weds.)