Stamp Auctions

Status International - Sale 356 - December 12th, 2019. 

Auction 356 has 3,730 lots, catering for all types of collectors & dealers - from bulk accumulations and intact collections to desirable single items. This auction offers a huge range of material, with special emphasis on lotting stamps to cater for collectors with varying types of interests and budgets.  Items range from $30 to $80,000 so there's something for everybody. This auction offers strong representation of Australia & Colonies, strong British Empire material of all areas & periods, as well as General Foreign including small and large collections. There are over 300 lots of Australian Collections (Lots 44-374 and 500 lots of World collections (Lots 375-811). Following on there is almost 1300 lots of Australia which consist of singles, sets and covers including Australian colonies (Lots 889 - 2220). The Australian lots cover all periods, from the Kangaroo issues up to Decimal and contains numerous number of mint & used £1 & £2 top values. This auction includes a Third Watermark 5/- Kangaroo Grey & pale yellow, error WATERMARK SIDEWAYS, showing full 'crown A' (crown to right looking from back), with marginal wmk line & small portions of marginal letters. Superb U appearance with neat 1918 cds, partial telegraph punch extremely well repaired & basically invisible. Excellent centring, perfect perfs & nice colour. ACSC 44d cat $125,000. SG 42ba cat £85,000 = A$150,000. This is the 2nd known example & an important new discovery that was found in Europe this year. (The other known example was in the Arthur Gray collection, & despite having a badly smeared cancel & short perfs sold for US$96,000 in 2007). Great rarity of the Kangaroo issues & an important error stamp of Australia & of the British Empire. 2019 Ceremuga AIEP photo-cert. (Lot 1139). There are over 1,500 lots of World stamps, covers and single country collections (Lots 2221-3730).

Numerous other British Empire, European, The Americas and Asian rarities.

A. KARAMITSOS is holding a general auction of stamp, postal history and postal stationary. Starting with stamps & postal history of Greece including Large & Small Hermes Head. Greek Islands and related area with Crete and Dodecanese. Emphasis on Greece issues with Olympics, Greek Islands, Territories & related area, Greece in WWII, postmarks & cancellations. Greek Ottoman Post and Levant.

Tuesday Dec. 3, 2019

EUROPE & OVERSEAS

Lot                       1 - 226

ASIA - AFRICA - AMERICAS

Catalogue 245

SOUTH & CENTRAL AMERICA - The Brian Moorhouse Estate (part II)

Argentine to Venezuela

EUROPE & OVERSEAS

Lot                    227 - 370

EUROPE A-I: Belgium to Iceland

EUROPE I-N: Italy incl. special collection of Papal States

EUROPE O: Österreich & Lombardei-Venetien, Zeitungsmarken, II. Republik 

AUSTRIAN LEVANT

EUROPE P - Y: Poland toYugoslavia

Catalogue 244

GREAT BRITAIN

10.30 h

BRITISH COLONIES incl. New Guinea, Papua New Guinea, Cyprus, Egypt, Gibraltar,  Iraq, Long Island

Catalogue 247

PRE-UNION SOUTH AFRICA - The Besançon Collection (part II)

Lot                6001 - 6431

Mafeking Siège Stamps, Vryburg, Griqualand West, Natal, Orange Free State, Transvaal

Friday Dec. 6, 2019

Catalogue 244

EUROPE & OVERSEAS

EUROPE: Germany, incl. Heligoland, All World collections

Katalog 246

ZEPPELIN-MAIL, Die Sammlung ERIVAN (part I)

10.30 h 

Lot                5001 - 5213

Katalog 249

13.00 h

Lot                8001 - 8416

SCHWEIZ ab 1907, inkl. Flugpost Schweiz und Liechtenstein, 

SOLDATENMARKEN, inkl. Sammlung Karlheinz Brunner (Teil 5) 

Lot                8417 - 8626

SCHWEIZ Sammlungen und Posten, inkl. Altschweiz, Rayons

EUROPE & OVERSEAS

Lot                2526 - 2596

Saturday Dec. 7, 2019

SCHWEIZ - Die Sammlung ERIVAN (Teil 1)

10.00 h

Altschweiz

Katalog 249

Kantonal- und Bundesmarken 1843 - 1863

SCHWEIZ & LIECHTENSTEIN

Vorphilatelie, Kantonalmarken, Rayonmarken, sitz. Helvetia bis UPU und stehende Helvetia

December 5, 2019
10:00 Hong Kong, China & Worldwide Coins and Banknotes
1001 - 2294

December 6, 2019
10:00 The People's Republic of China & Liberated Areas Stamps and Postal History Part I
3001 - 3045

11:00 The 70th Anniversary of People's Republic of China & Liberated Areas Stamps and Postal History
7001 - 7164

13:00 The People's Republic of China & Liberated Areas Stamps and Postal History Part II
3046 - 3798

December 7, 2019
10:00 The General Sale Part I
5001 - 5293

13:00 Dr. Lin Chih Ming's Collection of China Railway Post Office Postmarks
8001 - 8156

15:00 The General Sale Part II
5294 - 5512A

17:00 Mr. Danny Wong's Collection of China Postal Inspection Postal History
8501 - 8598

18:00 Mr. Hong Li's Collection of the Postal History of China North West District
9501 - 9729

December 8, 2019
10:00 The General Sale Part III
5512B - 5745

12:00 Fukui Kazuo's Collection of Japanese Occupation of China Stamps and Postal History
9001 - 9053

13:00 The General Sale Part IV
5746 - 6298