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...


 

Great Britain Postage Stamps and Postal History

Sale number: 128

Wednesday 24th April 2019

Sale Time: Wednesday 24th April 2019 at 2 pm
Thursday 25th April 2019 at 11 am and 2 pm

Featuring Machins from the estate of the late Robert Campbell ‘Cam’ Grosjean, GB Used Abroad from the collection of the late Patrick Cassels and the collection of Surrey & Hampshire Postcards formed by the late Percy Vickery… Read more...

 

February British Empire and Foreign

Sale 127

Auction of British Empire and Foreign Countries Postage Stamps and Postal History

Featuring the late Percy Vickery collection of Hong Kong, Morocco Agencies from the Moore & Moore collection, the late Peter Marks collection of New Zealand and the Mel Doyle collection of Zanzibar

Thursday 21st February 2019 at 11 am and 2 pm

To be held in the Grosvenor Auction Room on the Third Floor of the … Read more...

 

2019 Year of Change

Andrew Williams has been appointed Managing Director of Grosvenor Auctions and
Tom Margalski as Office Manager at the start of an important year for the company. Chris Lawrence continues as Director of Finance and James Grist as Chairman.

Nick Mansell is leaving the company in order to devote himself full time to his stamp dealing activities and we wish Nick every success with his future plans. Nick was one of … Read more...

 

November Highlights

The two November auctions at Grosvenor presented a wide range of fascinating material for specialists and achieved an impressive combined total realisation of £1,398,890.

The auction of Specialised Great Britain held on November 15-16 featured the exceptional collection formed by the late John Harding and an unusually comprehensive collection of first day covers formed by Eric Neville Cheadle which contained rare items from all reigns. From this latter collection a … Read more...

 

November Auctions

Sales 125 & 126

Great Britain Specialised: Thursday 15th – Friday 16th November

Featuring the exceptional collection of the late John Harding FRPSL, the Eric Neville Cheadle collection of rare First Day Covers and the ‘Bristol’ collection of 1879–80 Tender Essays

British Empire and Foreign: Tuesday 20th November

Featuring the fine Bill Hall collection of Barbados, Basutoland from the exceptional collection formed by Allen Wood FRPSL, the latest in our … Read more...