The Bigger the Better?

The Specialised Great Britain Postage Stamps and Postal History auction held over two days at Grosvenor on October 30 and 31 achieved a final sale total of £310,714, showing a good overall demand for material but also reflecting a continuing volatility with certain specialist areas continuing to wallow in the doldrums.

The section of Collections & Mixed Lots that opened the first day provided an impressive start. A huge accumulation … Read more...

 

The Right to be Choosy

The Right to be Choosy

 The September auction week at Grosvenor achieved a pleasing final sale total of £841,405.

Bermuda was the leading country from the Langton Hill Collection, presented as a single auction.  Many important items appeared for sale, the 1620 and 1628 letters sent to England by John Hanmer [lot 166], the first being the second earliest in private hands, sold for £16,120. The used example … Read more...

 

British Empire and Foreign Countries

British Empire & Foreign Countries
4-5 December 2024

A two day sale of over 1,350 lots including the Gerald Tonge collection of Ceylon, the Professor Malvern Van Wyk Smith collection of Africa and related Airmails, a specialised offering of Falkland Islands & Antarctica featuring the fine collection formed by Robert Berkes of the Falkland Island Philatelic Study Group and Egypt with further material from the collection formed by the late … Read more...

 

Spring Schedule 2025

Wednesday 12 March 2025 – British Empire & Foreign Countries

This sale will include the exceptional collection of India and States from the estate of the late Col. C.G.S. Harvey, former doyen of the Royal Philatelic Society and is open for consignments until 8th January 2025.

 

Wednesday 23 April 2025 – Great Britain

This sale is open for consignments until 17th February 2025.

 

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Dorothy Sharp (1928 – 2024)

The Grosvenor graphic designer Dorothy Sharp passed away on June 25th, having  celebrated her 96th birthday earlier in the month. She had worked as part of our team for over 25 years, the front cover of the recent GPA 159 catalogue being her final contribution.

Dorothy Bertha Merriton Sharp was born in Kent in 1928 and was the granddaughter of noted English historian Samuel Rawson Gardiner. After the death … Read more...

 

Rollercoaster Ride

An impressive British Empire & Foreign Countries auction held on June 5th-6th brought the Grosvenor Spring Season to a close. The two-day sale of over 2,000 lots almost exactly matched its pre-sale estimate, achieving a sale total of £706,314.

This was a rollercoaster of an auction reflecting an increasingly uneven market. Some countries are demonstrably hot, others disconcertingly not.… Read more...