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...
A sale of over 1400 lots featuring the second part of the exceptional Stefan Heijtz FRPSL Barbados, an exceptional collection of postal history previously awarded three international Gold medals at the Philakorea 2002, London 2020 and London 2022 exhibitions, as well as significant offerings of Malta and Egypt … Read more...
Over two sticky July days in central London the Grosvenor Summer Auction blew away all expectations, raising over £1 million for its delighted vendors. The bidding was hot, the prices hotter still, as three auctioneers battled to control waves of online bidding that arrived to compete with pre-sale bids and the challenges of attendees in the room.
The auction contained several important offerings, the first being the John Ineson collection … Read more...
Like the proverbial curate’s egg, parts of this auction were excellent, despite a disappointing number of lots that failed to find new homes. Collections and selections that provided depth of interest for collectors and potential for dealers attracted particularly enthusiastic bidding whilst some ‘old favourites’ were disappointing on the day.
Notable individual results included the 1840 Mulready 1d. letter sheet overprinted “SPECIMEN” from the unlisted stereo A16 [lot 383… Read more...
More than £1 million was spent at the Grosvenor auction of British Empire & Foreign Countries on March 14th/15th by buyers excited by an attractive offering of ‘genuine’ material from a series of traditional collections compiled by their original owners over many years. This large sale brought to the market the greater part of the remarkable all World collection formed by Dr Brian Austen, South Atlantic and Falkland Islands … Read more...
