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How to properly insure your stamp collection
Despite its preconceptions, insurance is generally uncomplicated and can protect collectors against significant loss, according to retired insurance broker and philatelist Garfield Portch, who has more than 25 years of professional insurance experience.
Insuring a stamp collection is the same as insuring anything else you own. Similar to insuring a house, its contents or any other personal possessions – excluding your car, which is mandatory – a stamp collection can be insured for a “catastrophic loss.” “Whether you have it or not is a question of whether you want to... Continue reading →
BNA, Canada offerings abound in upcoming Eastern Auctions sale
Two of the featured lots in the upcoming sale include Lot 227 (left), a mint one-shilling stamp issued by the then-British colony of New Brunswick in 1851 with a catalogue value of $60,000, and Lot 231, an unissued New Brunswick five-cent brown stamp depicting Postmaster General Charles Connell with a catalogue value of $40,000.
A two-session auction highlighted by British North America and Canada, including an extensive section of King George V “Admiral” stamps and postal history, will be offered by New Brunswick’s Eastern Auctions this February. A worldwide section will open the Feb. 28-29 sale with Lots 1-211, which feature a “remarkable estate” of parallel mint and used... Continue reading →