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AROUND THE ROOMS
Grosvenor (020 7379 8789)
www.grosvenor-auctions.co.uk
November 17: GB stamps and postal history saw realisations totalling £1,257,274. Included in the sale was the collection of the late Dr Kenneth William Statham ...
Highlight of the auction was this cover (illustrated on the cover of the catalogue) sent on June 1 1840 from Manchester to Bordeaux via Calais ... This superb piece sold for a remarkable £64,693 ...
Harmers (020 8747 6100)
www.harmers.com
November 22: the 'Apollo' Collection of All World Stamps and Postal History, which is part of the estate of a prominent European collector ... 673 lots with a pre-sale estimate of £362,935 made a total of £692,000 ... divided and valued by representatives of the estate which resulted in some strange lots! ...
Sotheby's (020 7293 5000)
www.sothebys.com
November 24-25: Sir Gawaine Baillie V - British Africa, 919 out of 1119 lots sold for a total of £1,125,941.
Commenting on the sale, Richard Ashton said: "We are delighted with the results of today's sale, which brings the total for the first half of the series of sales to £9,494,639, £1.5 million less than the pre-sale estimate of £11 million for the entire series ...
Argyll Etkin (020 7437 7800)
www.argyll-etkin.com
November 25: almost 1000 lots achieved a total figure of £236,000 which included a world record price of £16,100 for a 1916 St Helena War Tax One Penny Surcharge variety with double surcharge. It is considered the best example of one of only three known copies and was last at auction in 1939 ...
Stanley Gibbons Australia (+61 3 9670 0086)
February 4: first Melbourne sale of 2006 will include over 330 lots of GB and features one of the largest line-engraved offerings in the southern hemisphere. All 1d black plates are among the 63 individual stamp and 26 cover lots, the latter including two from Plate 11 ...
The full reports can be read in the January 2006 Philatelic Exporter.
This is only a small sample of the many upcoming public stamp auctions listed in the January 2006 Philatelic Exporter.
JANUARY 2006
11: AJH (01254 393740), Dunkenhalgh Hotel, Clayton-le-Moors, Accrington, 19.30.
Warwick (01926 499031), Court House, Warwick, 12.00.
15, Lockdales (01473 218588) , Novotel, Grey Friars Road, Ipswich, 12.00.
25: Bonhams (020 7393 3810), Knightsbridge, London SW7, 10.00.
Reeve (020 8672 6702), London SW17, 14.30.
29, Provincial (01235 511083), Parish Hall, Benson, Wallingford.
FEBRUARY
7, Alliance (01279 758854), Bury Lodge Hotel, Bury Lodge Lane, Stansted Airport, 19.30.
8: AJH (01254 393740), Dunkenhalgh Hotel, Clayton-le-Moors, Accrington, 19.30.
Schiff (+1 201 641 5566), Knights of Columbus Hall, Ridgefield Park, NJ, USA.
18: Lester (01926 634809), Century Suite, Holiday Inn, Hinckley Road, Walsgrave, Coventry, 13.45.
22, Reeve (020 8672 6702), London SW17, 14.30.
28, Grosvenor (020 7379 8789), London WC2, incl sp Australasia.
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NEW ISSUES
This month's website featured country is ...
THAILAND
July 15: definitives - Hearts and Balloons, 2 x B3.
October 8: Water Buffaloes, 3 x B3, B15, ms B30.
October 12: Centenary of National Library, B3.
October 23: Centenary of Abolition of Slavery in Thailand, B3.
November 15: New Year (Blossoms), 4 x B3, ms B17.
November 24: 80th Birthday of HRH Princess Bejaratana, B3; Siam Roosters, 4 x B3.
December 5: Buddhist Monks, 4 x B5, ms 30b; New Theory Agriculture, 2 x B3.
December 26: Tsunami, 2 x B3.
Over 200 new stamp issues from Aitutaki to Zimbabwe are listed in the January 2006 Philatelic Exporter.
ATTENTION POSTAL ADMINISTRATIONS and/or AGENTS!
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For greater impact, why not advertise your new issues?
AT the AGM of the Philatelic Traders' Society in late September, a new chairman was elected. John Auld succeeds Nigel Haworth, who held the post for six "sometimes fraught" years, and conceded that his predecessor "would be a very hard act to follow" ...
Congratulations to David and Helen Lister on the birth of their third child, a son who arrived on September 27 and who has been named Joseph ...
John C Brown of Stamps 'N Things, Bicester, has moved to new premises at 5b Grange Mews, Station Road, Launton, Bicester, Oxfordshire OX26 5DX, telephone (unchanged) 01869 357006, e-mail johnbrown4@btconnect.com, www.stamps-n-things.co.uk ...
Following the cessation of Express Stamp Auctions (see last month's PE), Chris and Polly Musitano have moved to 209 Tentelow Lane, Norwood Green, UB2 4LP, telephone 020 8579 8883 ... trading as CM Stamps ...
At the AGM of the New Zealand Stamp Dealers Association on October 30 in Wellington, all the officers were elected unopposed. John Mowbray is president, with Paul Wales and Chris Wells as immediate past president and vice-president respectively. Derek Lamb is secretary/treasurer (P O Box 204, Orewa, Hibiscus Coast 1330, NZ, e-mail dlamb@ihug.co.nz) ...
After over 23 years as editorial director of the weekly US newspaper Linn's Stamp News, Michael Laurence retired on November 25 2005 ...
Frank Stott , former owner of Vessey Auctions, died peacefully in his sleep on September 27 2005, aged 87, in Kent and Canterbury Hospital following a short illness ...
Warning - beware e-mails from Al Gatech and/or Yosef Karni ...
This is only a small sample of the many people mentioned in the January 2006 Philatelic Exporter.
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TRADE DIARY
This is just one weekend of events in the UK in December - a full schedule of events in January and February 2006 is in the January 2006 Philatelic Exporter.
January 20-21, York Stamp and Coin Fair , York Racecourse Grandstand (TD).
21: Basingstoke (sp), Costello Technology College, Crossborough Hill (Paula Cant, 01256 415699).
Blackpool (s), St Bernadette's Church Hall, Devonshire Road, Bispham (HP).
Brighton (s), Good Shepherd Hall, 272 Dyke Road (FS).
Eastbourne (sp), St Mary's Church Hall, Decoy Drive, Hampden Park (CRS).
Enfield (sp), St Paul's Centre, Church Street (DH).
Exeter (p), St Peter's High School (AS).
Hull (sp), St Stephens Hall, Freehold Street, Spring Bank (HVJ).
London (spc etc), Charing Cross Market, Embankment Place, WC2 (CX).
Salisbury (sp), United Reform Church, Fisherton Street (BR).
22: Chesterfield (scp), Chesterfield Hotel, Malkin Street (NCF).
Doncaster (sp), Park Social Club, Eden Grove Road, Edenthorpe (HVJ).
Gateshead (sp), Swallow Hotel, High Street West (NSP).
Horsham (sp), Village Hall, Broadbridge Heath (CRS).
London (p, etc), Royal National Hotel, Bloomsbury, WC1 (IPM).
Milton Keynes (sp etc), Bletchley Leisure Centre, Princes Way (FB).
Stafford (spc), Peace Memorial Hall, Pinfold Lane, Penkridge (JRS).
Wigan (s), Pemberton Masonic Hall, Chapel Street (GBC).
OVERSEAS AND MAJOR UK EVENTS
JANUARY 2006
13-14: Cartexpo , Palais de la Mut ualit é, 24 Rue Saint-Victor, Paris, France ( +33 1 42 72 67 00).
13-15: MetroExpo Washington Postage Stamp Show, Hilton Washington Dulles Airport (ME).
19: OrcoExpo dealers' bourse (details below).
20-21: York Stamp and Coin Fair , York Racecourse Grandstand (TD).
20-22: OrcoExpo, Embassy Suites, Anaheim South, 11767 Harbour Boulevard, Anaheim/Garden Grove, CA, USA (e-mail stampshows@hotmail.com).
Coin & Stamp Expo, River Palms, Laughlin, Nevada, USA (BI).
27-28: Numicarta, Palais Omnisports de Bercy, Paris, France (+33 1 43 36 23 01).
International events up to 2010 are listed in the January 2006 Philatelic Exporter.
EVENT ORGANISERS
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LONDON 2010 VENUE A CHEAP OPTION
THERE has recently been a lot of discussion about the international stamp exhibition that should take place in London during May 2010. As I have attended nearly every international since I960, and from 1960 as a professional philatelist, I feel that I have the experience to deliver a meaningful opinion.
It is, to my mind, tragic that apparently the philatelic organisations can do no better than organise an exhibition in the same hall that the national stamp exhibitions take place. I cannot believe that British philately is so impoverished that it cannot organise a prestige exhibition ...
INVESTING IN STAMPS
DUE to my company's commitment to the promotion of stamps as an investment, I feel I must comment on the article by Philip J Milton in the October 2005 PE.
Whilst he wrote an extremely well informed article on the implications and pitfalls of investing in stamps, mainly in relation to pensions, I feel there were a number of important omissions ...
ON THIS AND THAT
"POSTCODES redundant?" asks 'name and address supplied' (November 2005 PE). For me, they are not - eight out of ten mailings I send out with just the name of the recipient and the postcode attached reach their intended destination ...
Michael Round's astute observations concerning those 'orrible stamp impersonations - namely, the dreaded white labels, has apparently thrown up yet another Royal Mail conspiracy to deny the general public its right to obtain commemoratives on demand - or at least, as a first option in preference to definitives ...
So far as the 'death of philately' is concerned, why is it that Royal Mail continues to pump out millions of new commemoratives month after month? Just what is their intended purpose? ...
Finally, regarding Philip J Milton's article on the subject of investment in stamps, he says: "stamps can be an excellent investment" - they can, but they have to be the right ones! ...
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