Doyle Will Offer Postage Stamps, Numismatics, and Luxury Writing Instruments

A selection of United States postage stamps will be featured in Doyle’s upcoming Postage Stamps, Coins, and Writing Instruments auction. Lots include first-issue 5-cent and 10-cent postage stamps from 1847, with both used and on-letter offerings. The catalog also includes definitive and commemorative stamp sets, a study of the 1938 Presidential series, and more.

The numismatic section of the sale offers modern proof gold. Collectors can consider other group assortments as well, such as a 1998 platinum proof set, Franklin Mint commemorative sets, and United States Olympic sets. Among the available writing instruments are an S.T. Dupont Grande Plume Pharaoh, an S.T. Dupont James Bond 007 Limited Edition, and several Montblanc Writer Series issues. These include Ernest Hemingway, Miguel de Cervantes, and Virginia Woolf versions. Rounding out the sale is a Royal Hawaiian 1850 Agricultural Society copper medal. View any of these lots and register to bid at Doyle.