Rumsey featured an attractive example of the rare 1861 Greenville, Ala., 5¢ provisional (Scott 33X1). Only six of the typeset adhesives exist.

The Dec. 19-20, 2017, Cherrystone auction of rare stamps and postal history by featured a set of 1875 plate proof sheets.

Chinese material continues to sell well based on two recent sales by John Bull Auctions and Cherrystone Philatelic Auctioneers.

The auction of Canada’s Admiral issue offers 646 lots of singles, blocks and more; a second sale includes additional Canada and worldwide material.

One highlight among many in the Malaya sale is an unused 1900 $25 green and orange Elephants and Howdah stamp from Perak.

Mossgreen website became inaccessible as the mid-January reports about the firm were published.

Two highlights include the largest known multiple of the 1844 60-reis stamp on cover.

Interasia Auctions conducted a sale Dec. 4-7 containing several named collections, with dozens of lots bringing the equivalent of $50,000 or higher.

Also sold was this piece of Tibetan philately, a registered cover bearing a 1912 2/30-trangka carmine stamp with the “POTSAGE” error.

Cherrystone Philatelic Auctioneers in New York City will offer United States and worldwide stamps and postal history in four auction sessions, Feb. 6-7.

Also this week, another high-demand Columbus stamp was featured.

The Jan. 21 Spink China auction in Hong Kong will include a complete sheet of China's 1882 1-candareen stamp with wide setting.

Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions presented its Flagship sale Dec. 11-13 in Danbury, Conn.

The Spink auction firm in London, England, will offer two sales over the course of three days, Jan. 23-25.

The Siegel sale contained many early pieces of American postal history dating back to the 17th century.

Slotted as a 10-day auction, it didn’t take long for aficionados of Liberty postal history to begin expressing their interest.

From Basel, two different examples of the 1845 issue (Scott 3L1) on cover sold for the equivalent of $26,400 and $43,200, respectively.

With only three known examples of Russia’s 1917 7-ruble stamp with inverted center, it is not surprising that it realized $29,900 in the Cherrystone sale.

Only about 25 examples of the 6-penny stamp showing the HMS Glasgow instead of the HMS Kent are thought to exist.

The spotlight was on one of two known complete sets of the 1915 Panama-Pacific small die proofs for the 1902 issue in private hand.