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Classic Korea stamps and covers with Holcombe certificates (Rapp auction)

January 9, 2021November 22, 2020 KSS Korea Philately Editor63Leave a Comment

We are always on the look out for interesting Korean philatelic materials showing up in auctions. One noticeable item showing up in a Rapp auction (“Rapp Auktion Nr. 39 und Nr. 40 von 23. bis 28. November 2020“) is item nr. 2826. This item is listed in both German and English. The Korean items shown […]

Examples of Korean War era Dutch soldiers’ cards in Dutch auction

December 11, 2020December 10, 2020 KSS Korea Philately Editor1441 Comment

The Dutch mail auction ‘Sheraton & Peel’ by René Hillesum Filatelie (since 1991) offers a selection of Dutch (and Colonies) and international philatelic materials. The upcoming auction of December 23 is offering several postal history items of interest to Korea collectors.

Cut outs or die proofs or…? What are these items?

October 17, 2019 KSS Korea Philately Editor71017 Comments

The items shown here are “cut outs” according to Spink Auction. In their Spink China auction of May 2017 these five items were listed by Spink as “1884 First issue, set of five, colour die proof in white thick paper, toned spots.” They were sold for HK$20.000 (approx. 2300 EUR or 2550 USD).

Handwritten Dae han (Tai han) on piece, for discussion

August 28, 2019September 3, 2019 Florian Eichhorn8334 Comments

German Auction Galleries Hamburg (Schwanke Auktion) No. 6 (Dec. 1/2, 2017) offered lot 96 described as follows: “1897, attraktive Briefvorderseite mit sechs verschiedenen frühen Korea-Marken, teils mit Aufdruck, leicht stockig, ansonsten gute Erhaltung. 1897, attractive cover front with six different Korean stamps, some with overprint, some stain.” Started at 250.-, realized 310.- euros + %.

Entire of Tae Geuk stamps with Imchisa markings in Gärtner auction

July 31, 2018August 17, 2019 KSS Korea Philately Editor692Leave a Comment

Gärtner auction nr. 40 contained an interesting envelope with both an 1895/96 Tae Geuk 5 Poon bluish green and a 10 Poon dull blue stamp. These stamps are listed in the KPSC as numbers 3A and 4A respectively.