Private stamp collection sells for eight figures.
The Joseph Hackmey Exhibit Collection of U.S.A. sold intact in a private treaty sale. Philatelist, David Feldman, was brought in to broker a transaction between Mr. Hackmey and a private collector after the announcement of the auction of Hackmey’s collection was announced. David Feldman will be publishing a book on the Hackmey collection as part of a series of Great Philatelic Collections.
Source: David Feldman
The world’s most expensive stamp comes to auction
The Sweden Treskilling Yellow colour error stamp comes up for auction 18-22 May 2010 at David Feldman Auctioneers. Each sale of the Sweden Treskilling Yellow has produced a world record price for a postage stamp, which last sold at auction for 2,500,000 Swiss Francs in 1996. Not only is the stamp unique in it’s yellow hue - supposed to be green, the attraction of the rare collectible has generated a formidable provenance including Phillipp von Ferrary who bought the stamp in 1894 for 4,000 gulden, and at the time owned the largest known stamp collection in the world. Later in 1897 King Carol II of Romania bought the stamp at auction for £5,000.
Source: David Feldman
Collector to set up philately museum
A collector with an estimated 5,000 stamps is considering opening a museum in order to help revive interest in philately, particularly amongst children. Anil Katiyar, a 40-year-old bank employee from India, is following the footsteps of many art collectors turned philanthropists, with the establishment of museums to house major art collections. Katiyar has approached the postal authorities about setting up the museum, who are said to be interested.Â
Rare British and Canadian Stamp Exhibition
For the first time ever, more than 400 rare stamps from Britain and Canada collected by several generations of British monarchs and kept by the Royal Philatelic Collection will be displayed at the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Quebec in June 2009. The exhibition is divided into four areas: A Royal Collection, which talks about the monarchs who collect; The Birth of the Modern British Post, which shows the world's first postage stamps, the Penny Black and Twopenny Blue; Canada Gains Its Postal Autonomy, and Canadian Treasures.
Lincoln Stamp Collection Sells for Nearly $2 million
A collection of 19th- and 20th- century stamps featuring the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, sold for nearly $2 million on the 17th April 2009 at Spink Shreves Galleries in New York. The collection of 10,000 stamps is said as having “incredible depth” and “real rarities” according to US stamp expert, Alexander Haimann. William Ainsworth, a former partner at KPMG, starting collecting stamps in 1977 and amassed this great collection over 32 years. The 2009 World Stamp Exhibition was held from the 10th to the 16th April in Luoyang in central China's Henan province, displaying over 3,200 framed stamp collections. The highlight of the exhibition was an auction of 875 framed stamps covering periods from the Qing Dynasty to the founding of the People's Republic of China. The auction was a success with turnover over 6 million yuan, over US $1 million, and 85 per cent of the items sold. The first international stamp exhibition was held in Vienna in 1881. On 7th April 2009 an 1840 Two Pence Blue block of twelve, formerly part of the Royal Philatelic Collection, sold for £207,100 at Spink in London. It was sold to an anonymous collector via the telephone. One of the most famous stamps in the world, the American 1918 inverted "Jenny", sold for £184,000 at Warwick & Warwick’s during the 4th March 2009 auction. This mint condition stamp is one of 100 stamps that were erroneously printed to show the Curtiss JN-4 Jenny flying upside down. In 2007 two other such stamps were sold for $825,000 and $850,000, although both were in exceptionally fine condition. The mistake was first discovered by a stockbroker's clerk, William Robey, in May 1918 when he went to buy some of the airmail stamps on the first day of issue.
The stamp collection of Britain David Barton went on sale on the 6th March 2009 at Sotheby's London. The 491-lot collection, accumulated over 40 years, raised £527,499 in total. The highlight of the auction were the Two-Penny Blues, much rarer than the Penny Black, which sold for £54,050, above its estimate of £40,000—50,000.
The British Royal Family is believed to have the world’s most comprehensive collection of Great British and Commonwealth postage stamps. The second part of King George V’s collection, The “Monarch” Collection, sold at Spink in October 2008 in London for £1.22 million. King George was an avid stamp collector and set many purchase records during his lifetime.
