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May 24, 2012 - Session 1 - 5/24/2012 9:00:00 AM PST

Lot 1015 . 115-E12a, 1869 5c Carmine on scarlet safety paper essay, Current Bid : $1,200

Lot 1133 . 2, 1847 10c Black, Short transfer at top, Current Bid : $900

Lot 1616 . Indian Territorial Collection, Current Bid : $9,000

Lot 1675 . 3X3, Baltimore, Md. 5c Black on Bluish, Current Bid : $6,000

Lot 1697 . 35, 1859 10c Green, Type V, McIntire's Post, Current Bid : $1,500

Lot 1730 . 234, 1893 5c Columbian, Current Bid : $6,000

Lot 1765 . 1969 Apollo 11 Flown Cover, Current Bid : $7,500

Lot 1843 . U34, Sale & Barber's Humboldt Express, Virginia City, N.T., Current Bid : $2,400

Lot 1846 . 143L3, 1861 $1 Red Wells, Fargo & Co. Pony Express, Current Bid : $6,000

May 25, 2012 - Session 2 - 5/25/2012 9:00:00 AM PST

Lot 3099 . #12, 1851 12c Black, # 8 Hawaii 5c Blue Thin White Wove, Honululu, U.S. Postage Paid, Current Bid : $4,000

Lot 3217 . Guerilla Service, 2cts Blue, Minandao Guerilla Area, Current Bid : $3,000

Lot 3299 . Philippines Postal Stationery Collection, Current Bid : $1,800

Lot 3480 . Falkland Islands, 151a, 1964 6d Falkland Islands Battle Anniversary, "HMS Glasgow" vignette error, Current Bid : $15,000

Lot 3620 . China, 16n-24n var., 1897 1c-24c Dowager, Mollendorf printing, Current Bid : $2,400

Lot 3621 . China, 65, 1897 1/2c on 3c Surcharge, Current Bid : $1,800

Lot 3626 . China, 1010-11, 1950 $10, $20 Flying Geese, Current Bid : $1,900

Lot 3668 . Faroe Islands, 1, 1919 "2 ore" on 5o Green, Current Bid : $3,250

Lot 3952 . Mexico, 1935 Mexico City to Newark NJ Amelia Earhart Solo Flight, Current Bid : $5,500

May 26,2012 - Session 3 - 5/26/2012 9:00:00 AM PST

Lot 5029 . 270, to China, Angel Island (San Francisco Bay) CA, Current Bid : $1,800

Lot 5081 . 31(3),53,54,57(split ovpt),59,U10, to India, Honolulu Hawaii, Current Bid : $2,800

Lot 5161 . B2, C1-C5, First Day, Peking to Tsinan to Shanghai, Air Mail, China Current Bid : $1,450

Lot 5352 . CHINA, Postal Cards, Han 2, 1900 1c Coiling Dragon, "WATERLOW & SONS / SPECIMEN / CANCELLED" imprint, Current Bid : $12,000

Lot 5557 . NEW ZEALAND PIGEON POST EXHIBIT COLLECTION. Current Bid : $9,000

Lot 5612 . SUBSTANTIAL CHINA COLLECTION TO 1949. Current Bid : $12,000

Lot 5764 . MEXICO EXCEPTIONAL 19TH CENTURY POSTAL HISTORY COLLECTION. Current Bid : $7,500

Lot 5815 . PORTUGESE COLONIES - AZORES AND MADEIRA. Current Bid : $1,800

Lot 5839 . SAUDI ARABIA - NEJD OUTSTANDING COLLECTION. Current Bid : $6,000


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.