For 50 years, Forster collected postal history of the 1869 Pictorial stamps with discipline, patience and a keen eye for items considered the finest of their kind.

All three collections are marked by substantial depth and breadth and present collectors with myriad opportunities to add items of notable quality to their collections.

Up for bids will be the Magnolia collection of classic Uruguay stamps and covers and the Magnolia collection of Japanese foreign mail and post offices.

Highlights among the United States offerings include graded stamps and an extensive selection of essays and proofs.

Kelleher describes the sale as its largest ever quarterly sale of collections, stocks and accumulations in terms of physical size.

Collectors of U.S. revenue stamps will want to look closely at the 47 lots of revenue multiples that will be up for bids.

First to cross the auction block is part 3 of the Melvin Getlan collection of United States vending- and affixing-machine perforations.

Bidders will find substantial offerings of China and Asia. A number of attractive covers are among the United States material up for bids.

The auction includes more than 1,400 lots and features material from a diverse selection of seven name collections.

Countries represented with significant items include Albania, Austria, France and colonies, Germany, Great Britain and British Commonwealth.

The cover is franked with a 3¢ red brown Caribou with a manuscript “Aerial Atlantic Mail JAR.”

Highlights of the Erivan sale include rare postmasters’ provisionals, Pony Express and Waterbury fancy cancel covers.

Seven separate catalogs have been prepared for the Dec. 5-9 autumn auction series and are available for viewing and download on the Feldman website.

The more than 560 lots of U.S. postage stamps reflect the breadth of Piller’s holdings, from postmasters’ provisionals to revenues.

This change applies to auctions and fixed price purchases.

The auction firm describes the stamp as a “superlative example” possessing “bright exquisite color on wonderfully fresh white paper.”

The auction begins with a broad selection of U.S. and possessions issues.

Abacus said that almost all of the 530 lots in this sale are new to the market.

Also crossing the auction block will be almost 180 lots featuring postal history categories such as advertising covers, zeppelin flights, crash covers and classic United States issues.

Siegel has prepared detailed catalogs for the sales of part 2 of the Getlan collection and part 1 of the Venn collection.