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Sale 2997 June 2010 Live Auction Highlights

Lot 1745. 2630c, 1992 29c NY Stock Exchange, Center Inverted, Current Bid: $14,500
 Lot 1761. C3a, 1918 24c Carmine Rose and Blue, Center Inverted, Current Bid: $180,000
 Lot 1762. C3a, 1918 24c Carmine Rose and Blue. Center Inverted, Current Bid: $145,000
Lot 2297. WITHDRAWN Current Bid: $0
 Lot 3086. Australia, 102, 1930 £2 Rose and black, Current Bid: $1,400
 Lot 3111. Bermuda, 299a, 1973 15c Bermuda National Trust, Brown color omitted, Current Bid: $1,450
Lot 3129. Canada, 1, 1851 3d Red, Current Bid: $40,000
 Lot 3230. Canada. 387a, 1959 5c St. Lawrence Seaway, Center Inverted, Current Bid: $7,500
 Lot 3653. Mexico, C74, 1935 20c Amelia Earhart Goodwill Flight Overprint, Current Bid: $2,000


Henry R. Harmer, a signatory of the exclusive "Roll of Distinguished Philatelists," founded the company that bears his name in England in 1918. In 1940, the Harmer firm opened its New York auction gallery and quickly ascended to the top ranks of philatelic auction houses in the United States.

In 1946, H.R. Harmer Inc.of New York was selected to sell the late President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s stamp collection. This represented one of the first of many important landmark auctions to be conducted by the firm. Over the next 58 years, the firm was chosen again and again to sell many of the finest stamp collections ever formed, including the most valuable philatelic collection sold at any U.S. auction -- the famed Louise Boyd Dale and Alfred F. Lichtenstein collections -- through a series of 25 sales beginning in 1968 and ending in May of 2004.

Other important collections sold through H.R. Harmer include those formed by Alfred H. Caspary, William Moody, Sir Henry Tucker, Maurice Burrus Hawaii, Adolphe Menjou, Sandra Ilene West, Paul Beaver, Caesar Cone, Consul Weinberger, Erwin Griswold, Sidney Hessel, Arther Hetherington, Richard Canman, Sigmund Adler, Dr. James A. Matejka, and Edward M. Gilbert.  Harmer's has also offered many valuable properties including the Princeton University Block of Four of the Inverted U.S. 24¢ Airpost, and the Charnley and Whelan Find.