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.

Formed throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, the quality and completeness of the Wingate collection was matched by few.

On the Declaration of Independence souvenir sheet error, the “USA 18¢” inscription is omitted from only the first of the five stamps in the sheet.

Harmer-Schau Auction Galleries will conduct its next public auction May 13 in association with the Pipex stamp show in Portland, Ore.

The auction will include United States, Canada, British Commonwealth and worldwide stamps, proofs, postal history and more.

Among the items on offer is a Titanic postal facing slip recovered from the body of 41-year-old American postal clerk Oscar Scott Woody.

Cherrystone Philatelic Auctioneers of New York City has issued catalogs for two consecutive sales taking place April 24-25.