The Specialised Great Britain auction held at Grosvenor on October 29th-30thexceeded expectations, producing a final sale total of £534,448.
Interest was well spread throughout the major collecting areas and the usual strong response to the opening section of Collections & Mixed Lots resulted in most lots comfortably exceeding their estimate.
The star lot on the first day was a group of fascinating material from The Mercantile … Read more...
The James Teron collection of Tonga offered at Grosvenor in the British Empire & Foreign Countries sale on September 24th and 25th attracted great interest and strong results. The 1895 1d. olive-green, horizontal pair imperforate between and used with a scarce part boxed “PACKET BOAT” handstamp [lot 1967] realised £4,560. Included were a number of rare full panes and other multiples amongst which was the attractive mint block … Read more...
Wednesday 29 and Thursday 30 October 2025 – Specialised Great Britain
An auction of over 1,400 lots including the exceptional collection of Queen Victoria SPECIMEN stamps formed by Sir John Purcell, 1840 Mulready Caricatures and Propaganda Envelopes from the Richard Hobbs FRPSL Collection, the Brian Asquith FRPSL collection of Wakefield Postal History and the comprehensive Rodney Gudger collection of 1971 Strike Post offered intact.
The June auction week at Grosvenor produced a highly satisfactory total of £708,989.
First to be offered was the remarkable Collection of Malta formed by John Birkett Allan on June 3rd, a landmark sale with its sale catalogue of 1,376 lots certain to become an invaluable work of reference for years to come.
Many individual results caught the eye, including the important order issued in 1798 by Napolean Bonaparte … Read more...
