Stamp Auctions

Hello Friends!,

Welcome to our 135th consecutive specialized British Colonial Public Auction featuring a marvelous collection of pristine high values from Ireland.

After conducting a very brisk 7-figure “want list” business (both selling and buying) from my wife’s kitchen table we are back to our offices.  Want list work has always dwarfed our Auction business.  Most of all, I have enjoyed working closely with our world-wide clientele in helping with the forming of excellent Colonial collections, A-Z, both big and small.

An overview of some of what is inside the catalogue:

Great Britain & British Europe:

GB includes a lovely mint £5 orange and unusually nice high values including a 5/- mint I.R. Official, both mint £5 from Cypress and Gibraltar and the scarce Malta 10/- mint.

British Africa (always a personal favorite!):

£2 from Gold Coast – postally used!  Kenya and Uganda £1-£10 mint and £50-£100 “SPECIMEN”.  We offer 24 large Consular Mail issues of Madagascar and a used 50 Rupee Mauritius plus Natal £5 mint, Nyasaland £10 K George V.  We have both mint £5s of Sierra Leone.  There are also some rare Togo occupation issues (and errors) and a strong Zanzibar provisionals and later Sultan’s Palace through 200 Rupee.  Nice Baden-Powell items from Mafeking round out this area.

British Oceania:

Australia highlights include £2 as well as 10/ - 20/ “slash” Postage Dues (the “key” stamps of the country!). Brunei features a rare $3 on 1 155 Japanese Occupation stamp; there are scarce New Britain overprints, a Fiji 9d "Times Express", and a Papua 39a pair showing “rift in clouds”.  There is also some nice inverted centers from Cook Islands and Niue.

British America:

Highlights include a superb Bahamas SG 6 mint, a small but mighty range of mint perforated Ships from British Guiana, a Falkland Islands £1 Tercentenary mint plus mint NH, used and Specimen items. St. Vincent showcases scarce mint early issues and Turks Island #6 1/- mint.  Almost forgot:  Oh Canada!  British Columbia has a lovely example of the very rare mint 5¢ imperf; strong Canadian items include a choice used #1, superb high value Jubilees and a lovely mint example of the pivotal rarity 1¢ on 3¢ Port Hood (ex Dale-Lichtenstein pair)!

Did I forget some other good stamps or sections?  No doubt!  As always:

Best of Bidding Luck to you all!

Dear friends and collectors,

This is our GOLD auction as it contains our 50th sale.
The results of our previous auction, held on 16 February 2021 during the Covid-19 Era, were excellent. We hope that the current sale will also arouse a great interest.

We offer a Rare Doar Ivri Plate Blocks selection but special heed should be paid to the Turkish Post, Jewish Colonies, Palestine stamps, Israel 1st  Postage Dues, Autographs and Palestine Banknotes.

This auction can be viewed only at telavivstamps.com. You can browse all the sections of the catalogue at your convenience.
Many more images are shown on the website, these could not be included in the hard copy.

Please FAX or E-mail your final bids to avoid delays. Bidders are requested to include their FAX or E-mail & telephone numbers on their bid sheets.
With all good and sincere wishes,

YACOV TSACHOR & ZVI ALONI 

51th AUCTION at 12 and 19 - 22 October 2021

„Novels” on stamps?

Probably not! We certainly know stamps with catalog numbers, color and type specifications handwritten or stamped on the back. And, of course, the proof and ownership marks, which nowadays, fortunately, are usually no longer applied. Also some love message was "hidden" with the help of the stamp. Whether it was the recipient of the love message or the censors - both have removed the stamp, or worse, torn it off. But that's not what I'm talking about.

There was a collector whose markings on the back of stamps came quite close to the term novel (which is undoubtedly somewhat exaggerated). After all, he wrote on many of his stamps not only the purchase price, the place where he had acquired them, what type it was, how he estimated the rarity and often even codings. He could write well over 40 words on a piece of paper that was the size of the 50-copeck stamp of the Romanov series of Russia in 1913. It is the jeweler of the Tsar and philatelist Agathon Karlovich Fabergé.

Agathon was born in 1876 and was the grandson of the company founder Gustav Fabergé. He received a classical jeweler's education in his father's company and, as far as philately was concerned, became a student of the German-Russian grand philatelist Friedrich Breitfuß. The collections/holdings of Fabergè were gigantic. According to his own words, he owned 1500 copies of Poland No.1, of which 100 were unused. At one point is said to have tried to plate the Savoy Cross because he owned 120 specimens of this stamp. Experts also estimate that about 80% of the classic Finnish and Russian material sooner or later passed through Fabergé's hands. Much has been written about Agathon in articles and books - about his adventurous escape to Finland, his exhibit at WIPA 1933 - about his eventful life in general.

Keep this in mind when purchasing a stamp with lots of text on the reverse - it could be one from Agathon, even if it is not explicitly sold "ex Fabergé".

Now I wish you a lot of fun while studying the catalogs and wish you success in bidding.

Yours

Christoph Gärtner

Banknotes Worldwide & Germany

12. October 2021

8:00 AM

                    1  

               882  

Numismatics

12. October 2021

14:00 PM

           1.000  

           1.807  

Single lots philatelie Asia, Overseas, Europe

19. October 2021

9:00 AM

           2.000  

           4.973  

Single lots Germany, Picture Postcards

20. October 2021

9:00 AM

           5.000  

           8.071  

Collections Overseas, Thematics, Europe

21. October 2021

9:00 AM

           9.000  

         12.457  

Nachlässe, Wunderkartons, Collections Germany

22. October 2021

9:00 AM

         13.000