Rare stamp collections sell for up to £4,200 at Halls
Quality stamp collections, featuring rare examples from around the world, attracted great interest and sold for up to £4,200 at Shropshire’s leading fine art auction house.
Top price went to a large and comprehensive collection of GB stamps in three albums, containing mainly fine to very fine used stamps from 1840 to end of 1994 and including many iconic issues.
The quality collections went under the hammer in Halls Fine Art’s successful books, coins and stamps auction in Shrewsbury.
A Great Britain collection of Smiler sheets, in four special albums, from the first issue in 2000 through to 2020, sold for £1,200 while a small box containing of 19 Stanley Gibbons investment items featuring Great Britain stamps from 1840 to 1939, sold for £1,000.
An exciting find by Andy Neal, Halls Fine Art’s stamps specialist, was an old leather suitcase packed with a massive accumulation - estimated to be 40,000 - of Great Britain Penny Reds, which had laid undisturbed for more than 30 years. This lot tripled its pre-sale estimate to sell for £900.
A world accumulation of stamps and covers, including interesting Togo postal history and censored covers, made £500.
Another rare and interesting lot comprised a New Zealand 1910-‘13 ½d green and 1d carmine, overprinted "Victoria/Land", affixed and tied to the official Terra Nova Expedition certificate in memory of the death of the Scott Antarctic party. Despite some foxing and toning on the certificates, the lot sold for £400.
Of Shropshire interest, a large collection of 400 picture postcards relating to Bridgnorth and surrounding area and a small album of railway related cards sold for £300. The lot also contained an accumulation of postcards from other locations.
