InterAsia Auctions recently sold the earliest known cover bearing Imperial China stamps for an unprecedented $2.43 million.

Also this week, Linn's monthly magazine's new design and the latest USPS FDOI stamp ceremony.

The envelope from the Netherlands carried on the doomed airship in 1937 was franked with stamps celebrating scouting.

Along with its Philatelic Collectors’ series sale, Spink will also offer “the last of the fine group of sales offered on behalf of David Pitts.”

The Ulrich Felzmann auction house in Duesseldorf, Germany, has scheduled its next public stamp and postal history auction for July 5-7.

The new United States Scooby-Doo forever stamp will be issued July 14 to promote a social responsibility initiative titled Scooby-Doo Doo Good.

The June 27 Rarities of the World auction will be followed by sales offering material from the Kilbourne collection of Confederate States postal history.

Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries, in association with Charles F. Shreve, is offering two worldwide auctions June 19-20 at the Siegel galleries.

Most of the covers in this sale date from the 1920s to 1940s, with first flights, unusual cachets, exhibition souvenirs and more.

Also this week, artwork commissioned for Royal Academy of Arts will be shown on a set of six new stamps issued in Great Britain.

One of China’s “four treasures of the Republic” will be offered during the June 12-13 auction by Cherrystone Philatelic Auctioneers of New York City.

The auction features individual catalogs for Asia, Malaya, thematics and overseas, Europe, Germany, international rarities and more.

Hong Kong’s June 16-18 auction will offer an unused example of China’s rare 1897 surcharged $1-on-3¢ “Small Dollar” red revenue stamp.

Among the listings for Great Britain material is a folded letter sheet mailed Dec. 7, 1840, and carried by steamer.

The Quad City Stamp Club hosted its 41st annual Stamp Out Cancer auction on April 28.

The Kelleher and Rogers May 25-26 auction in Hong Kong will also offer more than 1,280 lots of China and Asia stamps and postal history.

The stamp is one of only eight known unused examples in private hands and the only example with a plate number.

Feldman’s Specialized France sale on March 21 featured an item with one of the longest delivery times in history.

The April 7 sale by the Christoph Gaertner auction house in Germany set a new record price for Germany colony material.

The May 22 auction has U.S. and Confederate States postal history as its focus, but also Confederate postmasters’ provisional stamps.