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2011 Fall Sale #3000 - Session 1 - 10/27/2011 9:00:00 AM PST

Lot 1019 . to China, 70,72, N. York Am Pkt, Paid Sold : $24,780

Lot 1034 . from China, 117(2),148, 12c Green, U.S. Postal Agency Shanghai, China Sold : $11,210

Lot 1085 . from China, K1-K16 to France, U.S. Postal Service Shanghai, Sold : $6,785

Lot 1250 . Cuba, 225, 1899 5c on 5c Blue "CUPA" var., U2a, 1899 1c on 1c Green Double Overprint, Sold : $5,605

Lot 1292 . Hawaii, 2, 1851 5c Blue, Type I, Missionary, Sold : $33,040

Lot 1616 . Spanish Philippines, UPSS #1f 50m Brown, Double Impression, Sold : $4,425

2011 Fall Sale #3000 - Session 2 - 10/28/2011 9:00:00 AM PST

Lot 3040 . Great Britain, 93, 1882 £5 Orange, Sold : $4,130

Lot 3065 . Great Britain, Offices in Turkey, Field Offices in Salonica, SG S1a, 1916 1/2p Green, Double overprint, Sold : $3,835

Lot 3259 . Canada, 84, 1900 20c Olive green, Sold : $6,490

Lot 3336 . Canada, 241b, 241c, 242a-244a, 245b, 1938 10c-$1 Pictorial Issue, Imperforate, Sold : $6,785

Lot 3740 . Israel, Doar Ivri "Broadway Cigarette" Wrapper Color Trial in blue, Sold : $4,130

2011 Fall Sale #3000 - Session 3 - 10/29/2011 9:00:00 AM PST

Lot 4043 . 38, 1860 30c Orange, Sold : $5,605

Lot 4095 . 142, 1870 24c Purple grilled, Sold : $6,785

Lot 4108 . 189, 1879 15c Red orange, Sold : $4,130

Lot 4205 . 523, 1918 $2 Orange red and black, Sold : $3,835

Lot 4298 . C17, 1932 8c Olive bister, Sold : $2,596


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.