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...
Auction of British Empire & Foreign Countries December 5th
This sale will feature rare and unusual items and collections including that of Rotary International stamps gathered by the late Mike Gosney, as well as the next of our popular specialised sections of Falkland Islands & Antarctica, which will this time include Falklands featuring the fine collection of the late James G. Robertson of Glasgow and Antarctica with the exceptional collection … Read more...
The Great Britain Postage Stamps and Postal History auction to be held on 4th & 5th December is now in preparation. A specialised auction that will feature fine material from the collection of the late Malcolm Hodgson, the Barry Smith collection of Prestige booklets and the Brian Jones collection of Machin issues.… Read more...
Auction of British Empire & Foreign Countries Friday October 5th
Including the fine British Commonwealth collections formed by the late Patrick Williams, FRPSL; British East Africa formed by the late H A W Shea; Jamaica formed by the late Dr R M Craig of Shropshire; Czechoslovakia formed by F Sansom; extensive Burma collections formed by
R Partridge and the late Harold Edmund Hardy of Mayfield and strong sections of Rhodesia … Read more...
The British Empire & Foreign Countries auction held on June 12th and 13th, last sale of the GROSVENOR SPRING 2012 series of auctions, was well received, reaching an impressive final total of £641,921.
After the usual busy section of Miscellaneous & Mixed Lots the ‘Oatcroft’ Collection of Crash & Wreck Covers provided some good if uneven realisations, the highest individual price being the £602 paid for the 1908 S.S. Finance … Read more...
Auction of British Empire and Foreign Countries Postage Stamps and Postal History
Tuesday 12th June 2012 at 11am and 2pm
Wednesday 13th June 2012 at 11 am
A specialised auction of 1,479 lots, the property of 120 vendors, featuring an important section of Falkland Islands & Antarctica with the exceptional Clive Perkins collection of the ‘Cork’ Cancellations, the ‘Oatcroft’ Collection of Crash and Wreck Mail, and fine British Empire collections … Read more...
AUSTRALASIA, a specialised auction of over 750 lots, to be held on Thursday October 4th in the week after Autumn Stampex 2012. This sale will feature the outstanding collection of the North West Pacific Islands overprints of New Guinea formed by the late Patrick Williams, FRPSL; unusual Queensland and South Australia from the collections of the late Leslie Digby Nelson; fine Nauru from the collection of the late James … Read more...
The heavy April showers, so persistent during Grosvenor’s auction week did not deter the many brave souls who attended and contributed to a combined total result of £1,003,868.
First on the block the Spring auction of Great Britain Postage Stamps & Postal History on April 25th/26th, which contained memorable sections of Postal Stationery, Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative Errors and Machin issues including the Colin Bowen and Kurt Feyrer Collections, … Read more...
