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EV Stamps

Auction Info

Auction Name
Stamps and Postal History
Auction Date
12/28/2025 - 12/28/2025
Sale Number
#698899
Total Lots
72
Sold Lots
70.0
Lots Sold
97.22%
Unsold Lots
2
Total Sales (USD)
3,931.24
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
0.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
0.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
0.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
0.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
Inf%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
139

Booker T. Washington Signed Photo

Not Available USD 373.75
156

US Stamps #38 Used on Cover to France with three large margins

Not Available USD 330.05
133

US 1849 Slave purchase related stampless folded letter

1849 Not Available USD 195.50
198

Great Britain Mulready Envelope 1p black Used with Canterbury Feb 2 1844 date stamp; reverse is printed rate tables and info from "The Economic Life Assurance Society"

1844 Not Available USD 192.43
101

Germany 1945 Local Zone Cork Cancel Obliterations Stamps & Covers on pages

1945 Not Available USD 128.80
155

US Stampless Cover to Mexico City

1853 Not Available USD 123.36
82

Great Britain Postal History King George VI Collection

Not Available USD 108.10
95

Douglas MacArthur "I have returned" Proclamation 1 page letter to the People of the Philippines about his return to the country

Not Available USD 104.65
140

US Postal History Small Group of covers including Parcel Post on cover

Not Available USD 103.37
147

US Stamps #7 & #11 Tied on Cover to South Carolina

Not Available USD 98.90
130

US Postal History Small Group of 4 1938 Presidential Series items

1938 Not Available USD 88.55
73

US Stamps & Covers including Harris album with some earlier Used (Columbians to 15 cent

early Not Available USD 88.55
141

South Carolina Postal History US #U27 Used in Independent State South Carolina less than 2 weeks after secession with black "Charleston S.C. Jan 2 1861" Double Circle CDS to Abbeville

1861 Not Available USD 87.40
93

Publications Bankers Box of Philatelic Literature

Not Available USD 81.65
137

US Postal History Group of 3 19th Century Covers with multiple colored stamps

19th Century Not Available USD 72.45
146

US Stamps #116 x 2 tied on front to Bordeaux

Not Available USD 71.30
199

Great Britain Mulready Envelope 1p black mint but sealed at one point

Not Available USD 71.30
79

Great Britain Postal History Queen Elizabeth II Collection

Not Available USD 67.85
94

Publications Bankers Box of Philatelic Literature

19th Century Not Available USD 60.95
71

US Stamps 1850s-1890s Postal History group

1850s-1890s Not Available USD 49.45

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  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000
  • Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.