Auction #11

November 13-15, 2012

Lots & Collections Today

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The first two afternoons of Auction #11 saw some terrific realizations. Noteworthy were the Canada Admirals and Consular Stamps, and the used New Zealand. Unaudited realizations can be seen on Stamp Auction Network.

Malta Collection
ex-Lot 1736 Malta Collection

Today we offer Collections, Large Lots & Remainders. We have begun a trend towards single lots of nice collections that could certainly have been divided into separate offerings with some exceptional individual stamps. Examples are Malta, France and Norway. Canada and Newfoundland also have intact collections, as does United States. Lots 1761 to 1806 showcase African and Latin American single country new issues from the 1970s to 2005. We have found that these collections do surprisingly well on their own, so check the Opening Bids on Stamp Auction Network before placing your bid.

Session 6 begins at 1:00pm. An error on the section page of our printed catalogue had the sale beginning at 2:00pm following Literature (which was called yesterday afternoon), but this information has been corrected in all other channels.

 

 

Sessions 2-5 Today

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Session #1 of Canada had some excellent realizations, particularly in the Admirals and the Consular Fee stamps. The unaudited results can be seen on Stamp Auction Network.

New Zealand #10Today we have Commonwealth, Worldwide, Postal History and Literature. There has been much interest in the GB Leech New Zealand Collection and we are hoping to see some live bidding from New Zealand. The time difference between Ottawa and New Zealand is 18 hours, so our sale beginning at 1:00pm here will be at 7am Thursday in New Zealand. Australians will have to get up two hours earlier in time for 5am! You can check the current Ottawa time up to the minute at The World Clock.

Sale #11 Begins Today

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Auction Sessions times can be seen at this page. We start off today with Canada and British North America. Tomorrow is Commonwealth, Worldwide, Postal History and Literature. Thursday will see the Lots & Collections.

Here is a gem that will be called in the first minutes of today’s sale:

Canada #5d UsedLot 18 Canada #5d Used 1855 5d grey violet Consort on thick hard paper. Light target cancel and four margins. A very fine stamp. Accompanied by 2012 Greene Foundation certificate. Unitrade CV$4,000

The Belkhode Collection of Admirals 1911-1931

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The Madhukar Belkhode Collection of Canada Admirals is an award-winning collection which won high distinction at several international competitions.

It is featured in lots 146-238 of the sale.

Canada Admirals 1911-1931The Exhibit itself can be seen in our Image Gallery, or downloaded in PDF form (the file is very large).

If you wish, we can send a printout for $65 in full colour, or $15 black and white, shipped to North American addresses. Please contact us if you wish to receive one.

Literature Section

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Our Literature offerings have expanded to 120 lots filling seven bookcases. In addition to a number of lesser consignments, we are pleased to offer the specialized New Zealand of Geoff Leech and a large part of the Jim Hennok philatelic libraries. We decided to increase the offerings of single works as a service to our literature buyers. Items which we valued at $30 (and sometimes as low as $20) are offered as single lots.

From Lot 1344

This greater selection comes with a trade-off. As those who’ve checked the opening bids will note, there will be minimum bids (typically 60-67 percent of the estimate) on the single lots and on some of the group lots. A few literature buyers whom we consulted advised that a broader selection of lots with reasonable opening bids was a worthy goal, much preferable to bidding on a heavy carton and incurring expensive shipping just to acquire one item in the box.

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