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Auction #45 Bid Sheet, Lot Descriptions and Pictures

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May 17, 2012
Hal Shelton <h.shelton@verizon.net

As you can see above, Auction #45 was posted today and the closing date is Friday, June 15th. This four week bidding period was the consensus of those who responded in a previous survey. In this auction you will find 232 lots across a broad range of collecting interests. I have included two additional catalogue references as I believe over time these will become the major reference works for SCW locals and Republican labels respectively. 1. Julio Allepuz Querol, CATÁLOGO DE LOS SELLOS LOCALES DE LA GUERRA CIVIL ESPAÑOLA 1936-1939, published by EDIFIL 2. Jose Vte Doménech, VIÑETAS POLITICAS REPUBLICANAS DE LA GUERRA CIVIL ESPAÑOLA, published by Afinet

The auction material is contained in three tabs—bid sheet, lot descriptions and lot pictures—so everyone should have computer capacity to download the information.

I thank several SPS members for providing the items in this auction namely Denny Florence, John Laukkanen, Bob Penn, and Jerry Wells. All members may submit items to be included in the auctions and it is a good way to monetize your duplicates and areas no longer of interest. I can help you with catalogue identification and pricing.

I will be away for the middle part of the auction, so if you have questions or desire scans of additional items, please let me know early.

May 13, 2012
Ralf Reinhold <postalhistory@web.de
http://www.historiapostal.eu
THANKS A LOT! :-D

May 10, 2012
Ralf Reinhold <postalhistory@web.de
http://www.historiapostal.eu
Hello SPS webmaster! Can somebody please delete this huge spam postings here? Thanks in advance, Ralf

May 01, 2012
Hal Shelton <h.shelton@verizon.net

Yesterday I sent emails to SPS members and friends that the next SPS Auction (#45) will be available at this SPS Forum website on Thursday, May 17th and bidding will close on Friday, June 15th . It will be about 20% larger than the last auction and will have many excellent items from a broad range of collecting interests. I will send another email when the auction catalogue is posted here.

If you did not receive this email it is because I do not have your email address. If interested in receiving these periodic emails, please send me your address.

Apr 19, 2012
Denny Florence <dennis.florence@comcast.net

Hi Everyone: Its been quite a while since I posted anything on this blog, but an article I received from Alan Leveritt, just triggered me into jotting down a few thoughts of the stamp market in general. As many of you know I placed the remainder of my Spanish Civil War material up for auction last autumn. Despite my input the auctioneer recommended I not pull lots out of my major collections and sell them as they were even though the lot sizes were very large. He strongly recommended I sell them this way because he was confident he had big bidders who would want the lots this way. Anyway the prices were very disappointing, to say the least. Fortunately, the auctioneer bought some of these lots to the book, and I received them back expecially my Republican locals collection. At the time I planned on offering all but the Republican collection, one item at a time on Ebay at whatever price the market would pay. Events, including my wife becoming ill, changed my plans and I still kept those lots I got back. The wife and I were able to get out to the local casdinos and I had quite a good first quarter. I also bought a few worldwide collection sections as I always planned to get back to general stamp collecting as I aged purely for entertainment without worrying about making a $ at the same time. I watched Ebay fairly closely and have made a few observations which I'd like to share. As usual these are my thoughts only and I would like to hear what others think.

The Ebay "Buy it now" feature and changes to the sellers cost structure, greatly increased the number of fixed price listingf while shrinking the number of auction listings. It appears to me that that at least in the "collections" and "Spain" buy it now listings the selling prices have not changed but the number of items going for 30 days or more has greatly increased. Those lots being sold by auction are drawing many bids (15-30) if the opening prices are set on the low side. A careful watch uncovers a fair number of real good buys compared to the past on some very nice items. This sets the stage for the question. What if the European Community economy goes from bad to worse. Will the stamp owners have enough capital to ride out this downturn, or will some be forced to sell at true auction price rather than "buy it now" fixed price. What happens if Spain for example has to pay more and more to refinance their notes and bonds. They are already paying about 1.25% more than a year ago. What if they get to Italian or God forbid Greek bond prices. Huge beautiful Italian collections have been offered on Ebay albeit with substantial reserves. Spaniards have always had a number of stamp speculators. Will they hold out or not. I don't pretend to have the answer, but it is an interesting question. I won't even mention post world war II issues. You can buy huge collections for a song. I also believe that the classics will hold their price for now. What about everything in between? I just don't have a good feeling. There has been a lot of dealer consolidation in tghe past ten years. The collecting public continues to age. Where it goes I just don't know. Since I have now much less ($) into stamps, most of my worries are behind me. I can also pick up my worldwide material on the cheap and still have lots of fun with stamps.

Once I get my wife stabilized, I still plan on offering some single Spanish Civil War items on Ebay. I just can't say when that will be.

I already have talked too much already, so until the next time. PS: I have just about replaced my 8 year old computer system. Wow what a difference. Denny

Apr 11, 2012
JMB <jbonnard@laposte.net

Hello everybody. I'm happy to see that Arana arrived today in France.

Apr 10, 2012
Peter Litzinger <hp.litzinger@t-online.de

Hallo, Spring Arana arrived this morning at Bad Dürkheim - it had been sent out the 5. April (stamp), that means it was only 4 days en route this time!

Peter

Apr 09, 2012
Jerry Wells <jb.wells@verizon.net

Denny: Sorry for your trouble. My correct email and paypal address is: jb.wells@verizon.net Best, Jerry

Apr 08, 2012
Denny Florence <dennis.florence@comcast.net

Jerry Wells: Just received a Paypal Email saying the $25. I sent you in March was returned to me because you did not have a Paypal account at the listed Email address. I also tried to send you this Email at Averizon Email address and the note bounced. If I need me to do something, please let me know. Denny

Mar 03, 2012
Hal Shelton <h.shelton@verizon.net

Reminder, SPS Auction #44 closes for bid on Wednesday, March 7th at 2 PM. Please click on buttons above for the auction catalog and email me you bids. Good hunting.

Feb 16, 2012
JMB <jbonnard@laposte.net

Hello. Several documents were stolen from the Biblioteca de l'Ateneu Enciclopèdic Popular. http://www.anarkismo.net/article/21946