Trevor Pateman's Philately Blog
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Trevor Pateman is a dealer, specialising in Russian Area and East European Philately. Follow the blog to find posts on stamps.
Trevor Pateman's Philately Blog
1y ago
In the March auction 2023 at Heinrich Koehler Wiesbaden you will find my remaining stocks of Russia, Transcaucasia Ukraine. They have been divided into large lots and have nominal (that is to say, ridiculously low) starting prices (Ausruf). You will find all of them in the main auction catalogue (Hauptkatalog) now online at Koehler. Some will have images added later or you can ask Koehler for scans.
https://heinrich-koehler.de/en/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAxbefBhDfARIsAL4XLRoZd2VlMKPoF3kXe7_Ob19qc9sxvZe9wV9Lkm1GEqbgSL7bPBJo-_IaAjEJEALw_wcB ..read more
Trevor Pateman's Philately Blog
2y ago
Readers who have bought material from my stock in Hellman Auctions over the past ten years or so might like to know that I am no longer sending material to Hellman and have no lots in the current auction 125, now online in March 2022 ..read more
Trevor Pateman's Philately Blog
2y ago
In the 1 and 2 March sales at Grosvenor Auctions, London, over 100 Lots from my stock are included.
They include some Russia and Ottoman Levant/Turkey but there is something from every continent on offer. Catalogues are in the post and lots will soon be online at grosvenorauctions.com and also at Philasearch.
Grosvenor has a Viewing Stand at LONDON 2022. It is up in the Gallery at G1a next to my own stand G1b ..read more
Trevor Pateman's Philately Blog
2y ago
Probably your last chance to buy my material in the Hellman Auctions. As usual, plenty of Armenia, Russia, Ukraine but lots more too.
Looking through what I sent them the star item may well be this (with a start price of 50€!) - a letter to Mont Athos with the Free Frank seal of a Black Sea gunboat. Now when did you last see one of those?
https://www.hellmanhuutokaupat.fi/en/huutokaupat/124/1880 ..read more
Trevor Pateman's Philately Blog
2y ago
I have lots of material in the September auction at Heinrich Koehler, Wiesbaden, especially in the Mixed Lot sections (Gelbseiten).
Koehler has kindly agreed to make half a dozen large groups from about four hundred lots which I had prepared in 2019 and 2020 on the Lot cards of another auction house, individually priced between 20€ and about 100€. That auction house changed its business plan after the lots were submitted, reducing the number of auctions each year and switching its emphasis away from philately and towards other collectibles. So rather than wait several years ..read more
Trevor Pateman's Philately Blog
2y ago
IF….
it happens and IF …. then I will be a LONDON STAMPEX 2021 from Wednesday 29 September until Saturday 2 October. I have a Stand in the Gallery G24b, close to the café area. On offer will be my new All World stock of Accumulations, Collections, and single items uniformly priced at £5. On the back table I will also have what little remains of my specialist Russia and related areas stock. Maybe you would like to buy me out?
Note that Admission to this Stampex is by Ticket which costs £10 for the first day and is free for the remaining three days. Registration is necessary and I guess i ..read more
Trevor Pateman's Philately Blog
3y ago
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Trevor Pateman's Philately Blog
3y ago
Stamp catalogues are not entirely consistent in what they do and don’t list. This is especially the case in relation to what I shall call local modifications.
Our paradigm for a stamp issuing authority is a central government department which distributes standardised stamps to post offices under its control. A limiting case is the micro-state which has only one post office but we can safely ignore that.
In general, local post offices are supposed to use the stamps they receive in the ways intended by the centre. But quite often they do things to stamps before selling them, most commonl ..read more
Trevor Pateman's Philately Blog
3y ago
The recent April 2021 sale (by Corinphila Veilingen) of Dick Scheper’s fine collection of Siberian postal history during the 1917-24 period made me realise how important Russia’s major ports were to stamp collectors and dealers in the Civil War and early Soviet period. Proximity to ships which could carry mail had two major advantages. First, it avoided sending mail overland in territory which might be subject to banditry or Red versus White fighting - or both. The Trans-Siberian railway, for example, ceased to be a reliable routing for mail from Siberia to western Europe and ship mail ..read more