Stamp Auctions

Corbitts hold around four stamp auctions and one auction of coins and other collectables each year. The varied lots at the auctions cater for both collectors and dealers alike. View the video clip filmed at one of our recent stamp auctions.

Good selection of Worldwide lots including Argentina, featuring classic and modern stamps, proofs and essays, errors and varieties, thematic material, covers of all periods, and also many lots and collections, all very well photographed and with attractive starts. Plenty of interesting pieces to be found!

Unsold lots are available after the end of the auction at the starting price + 10% buyer's premium

 

Status International - Sale 352 - July 19th, 2019. 

Auction 352 has 3,483 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 $200,000 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 87-398) and 600 lots of World collections (Lots 399-999). Following on there is almost 900 lots of Australia which consist of singles, sets and covers including Australian colonies (Lots 1078-1959). 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 the very rare 1936 KEVIII 2d red wmk Crown CofA UNISSUED due to his abdication. A full sheet was presented to the Governor of Victoria when he visited the printer. When the decision was made not to issue KEVIII stamps the Governor was asked by the printer to return the sheet which he did, with the exception of the blk of 6 removed from the LL cnr of the sheet, which he had sent to William, Baron Vestey in England, so the printer did not press the point. Vestey's grandson offered the blk of 6 in 2014 through Spinks London, where it sold for £240,000. A single was sold at a 2015 Melbourne auction for almost $173,000. Comes with copies of correspondence between the printer & the Governor regarding the return of the stamps. VF fresh MUH. A great rarity of Australian philately. (Lot 1209). There are over 1,500 lots of World stamps, covers and single country collections (Lots 1960-3483). Numerous other British Empire, European, The Americas and Asian rarities.

Athens Mail Auctions #70 of stamps, postal history and Postcards of Greece, Greek Islands and related area with Crete and Dodecanese.
Emphasis on Greece issues with Large & Small Hermes Head, Olympics, Greek Ottoman Post, Greek Islands, Territories & related area, Greece in WWII, postmarks and cancellations.
Europe with Luxembourg, Romania, Russia, Vatican and other countries.
Large selection of Picture Postcards