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...
GPA 88 Online
Auction of Great Britain Postage Stamps and Postal History
A specialised auction of over 1,200 lots, the property of 113 vendors, featuring the award winning line engraved collection formed by Vic Potter of Ontario; an extremely fine selection of surface printed, with high values, mint multiples, and very rare watermark errors; an exceptional range of Seahorses; QEII commemorative errors; the John Sussex RDP, FRPSL collection of Northern Ireland regionals
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Scarce and unusual
The first BRITISH EMPIRE & FOREIGN COUNTRIES sale of Spring 2014 held at Grosvenor on 5th and 6th March achieved a total realisation of £437,158.
This auction featured the Stewart R. Murray North Borneo, an outstanding collection that included an 1884 combination envelope from the ‘Locke’ correspondence to Surrey bearing the 1883 2c. brown used with Straits Settlements 1882 8c. orange and 1883-91 2c. pale rose (lot 995). … Read more...
GPA 87
GPA 87 Online
Auction of British Empire and Foreign Countries Postage Stamps and Postal History
A specialised auction of over 1,450 lots, the property of 114 vendors, featuring the Stewart R. Murray collection of North Borneo, the exceptional collection of Trieste formed by the late Dr Ronnie Shiers, the ‘Saisunee’ collection of Gilbert & Ellice Islands covers and cancellations, and the fine collection of India used in Zanzibar formed by Jeremy Lea of … Read more...
In Preparation: GPA 88 Great Britain
Our April 9th Specialised Great Britain Postage Stamps and Postal History auction will include a fine selection of surface printed high values and mint multiples, ‘Jubilee’ imprimaturs, an exceptional range of seahorses and a previously unrecorded Q.E.II commemorative perforation error.
This auction will close for vendor consignments on 31st January 2014
In Preparation: GPA 89 British Empire & Foreign Countries
Our May 21st/22nd auction will feature the first part of the superlative collection of British Levant postal stationery formed by Dr Alan K Huggins MBE, RDP, FRPSL, focusing on the unoverprinted issues employed in the area. A further offering of Kuwait from the fine collection formed by Dr. L Phillips is joined by outstanding Switzerland formed by the late John E Ager of Bookham and the latest in our … Read more...
Last Posting Before Christmas
UK
Wednesday 18th December
International Airmail
Wednesday 4th December for Asia, Far East, Japan, New Zealand
Thursday 5th December for Australia
Friday 6th December for Africa, Central and South America, Middle East
Monday 9th December for Cyrus, Eastern Europe
Tuesday 10th December for Canada, France, Greece, Poland
Friday 13th December for USA, Western Europe (excluding France, Greece and Poland)… Read more...