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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...

 

Autumn 2024 Schedule

The Langton Hill Collections of Bermuda, Ascension, Saint Helena and Tobago
25 September 2024

Further information on this exceptional single vendor auction will be published when available.

 

British Empire & Foreign Countries
26 September 2024

This auction includes the collections of the late Ben D’Souza of the East Africa Study Circle, George Kunzle, longtime member of the Helvetia Philatelic Society of Great Britain and Egypt with further material from … 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...

British Empire and Foreign Countries

This sale will include our next specialised offering of Falkland Islands & Antarctica and will feature the fine collection formed by Robert Berkes of the Falkland Islands Philatelic Study Group and Egypt with further material from the collection formed by the late Alan Jeyes. The auction closes for further consignments on 2 October.… Read more...

Specialised Great Britain

Grosvenor is home to the only regular major auctions of specialised Great Britain offering traditional favourites and developing areas of interest. This next sale will close for consignments on 28 August.

 

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British Empire and Foreign Countries

This auction includes the collections of the late Ben D’Souza of the East Africa Study Circle, George Kunzle, longtime member of the Helvetia Philatelic Society of Great Britain and Egypt with further material from the collection formed by the late Alan Jeyes. The sale closes for consignments shortly, on 24 July 2024.

 

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