Submitted by aarAdmin on Thu, 08/29/2019 - 00:00
Despite being below its catalogue estimate of $20,000-$25,000, a block of four five-penny King George V head stamps (lot 209) on August 28 easily brought the highest price at Leski Auctions first Melbourne-based Stamps, Coins & Postal History auction since December last year.
The stamps sold for $15,000 – with lot 239, a King George V Perkins Bacon one penny black die proof, changing hands for $6500 and the preceding lot (again a King George V one penny proof but this time red or carmine-rose in colour) for $5500.
An historic 1840 Great Britain deep blue block of four twopenny stamps (lot 686) sold for $8000 – while collectors also were keen on stamp albums from the People’s Republic of China with mint sets from 1960-1971 (lot 626) bringing $4200.
Among the postal history to create interest, an oversized printed airmail cover to England, dated April 10, 1935, was the top seller bringing $3200.
As for coins – well, a bag of 1946-1963 florins weighing six kilograms (some more than 550 in number) topped the charts with $1900 while several gold Australian native animal $200 proofs sold for around $525-$550 each.
