Our 233rd auction for stamps, coins and postal history will take place on Wednesday and Thursday, December 6th & 7th, 2023, with an attractive offer of over 2,800 lots of international philately and numismatics.
In our winter auction we offer a wide range with many rarities from German and international collecting areas from the classic period to modern times.
The old German states in particular are very well represented (around 550 lots), including old German rarities such as Baden's postal halving of the 12 Kreuzer (No. 3 xH) on a splendid letter or a block rarity of the Hanover 3 Gr dark yellow-orange (No. 16a ) in the form of a wonderfully designed edge block of ten.
Furthermore, the German Reich with rare issues and selected quality items, beautiful deliveries of field post and German history 1933/1945 with rare pieces of fortress mail, Volkssturm, East Prussia field post, submarines, V1 , etc.
The German colonies and foreign post offices are represented with around 240 lots, including many items from the various colonial areas as well as items of interesting postal history such as: For example, a parliamentary letter from the Imperial Protection Force for East Africa to Bern delivered in 1917 as part of an exchange of mail under a white flag.
The European collecting areas come with a nice offering from Poland and Spain. These include the miniature sheets of the Polish Education Commission 1946 and the Constitution of the United States 1948, which are rarely offered at auction. Lovers of Spanish philately can rejoice, on the second day of the auction one of the best collections in Spain from Vorphila onwards will go under the hammer (divided into 5 lots).
The collection and coin part includes several hundred lots, mostly untouched items, collections and estates, numerous large items as well as valuable coin collections, investment and collector coins from over 1000 years of coin history, including the dissolution of a special collection of capsule emergency money 1919/1923 as well as various collections of Reichsgold - and gold coins from all over the world.
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We hope you enjoy browsing and bidding
Your auction house Karl Pfankuch & Co
Registration:
Start of the Live-auction:
6. December 2023 09:00 CET
LIVE!
Info and free registration for the Live-Auction
Short Terms and Conditions
The auctioneer receives a commission from the buyer amounting to 20 % of the hammer price, as well as 1,- Euro for each lot purchased, for the dispatch an additional charge for postage + insurance costs will be added. For the commission, the lot fee and the shipping the legal value added tax is charged (currently 19 %) and indicated. For the lots marked with ° the auction is held in own name and invoice (sale of difference taxed lots § 25a), hammer price, auctioneer’s commission and expenses already include VAT (currently 19%) which is not indicated. Supplies to EU customers outside Germany holding an EU VAT-ID-number underly the “Reverse Charge-System” for commission and expenses the German VAT does not apply, the buyer is obliged to include the respective VAT in his VAT-declaration in his home country. Non-EU-Member States are exempted from VAT on commission and expenses with presentation of relevant export documents.
Please note the Terms and Conditions
Lot Start |
Lot End |
Starting Time |
Description |
Wednesday December 6th, 2023
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1 |
191 |
09:00
CET
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Stamps single lots Old German LIVE! |
551 |
1968 |
10:30
CET
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Stamps single lots German Empire, Germany after 1945, German colonies and foreign post offices LIVE! |
192 |
550 |
19:00
CET
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Stamps and covers Old German States, Pre-Philately, Cancellation, Postal history ONLINE LIVE |
Thursday December 7th, 2023
|
1969 |
2825 |
09:30
CET
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Coins single lots and collections, stamp collections, lots and estates all over the world etc. LIVE! |