The catalogue number comes first
A stamp lot is identified by its Stanley Gibbons, Scott or ACSC number before anything else, and serious bidders search by it. The heading has to carry it exactly as the specialist catalogue prints it.
Markets · Stamps & Postal History
Run your stamp and postal history sales under your own name
Philatelic bidders read a lot description the way a specialist writes it: catalogue number, condition, certificate. Auctionomy gives every lot the room to say all three, on a website that carries your house's name rather than a marketplace's.
How your bidders buy
What your bidders read for
Condition decides the price
Unmounted mint, mounted mint or fine used; margins, centring, perforations and gum all move the estimate. Bidders expect faults stated plainly and a scan clear enough to check them.
Covers are judged on their markings
Postal history is bought on route, rate and postmarks: origin, destination, backstamps, censor and transit markings. A cover needs both sides photographed and its markings described.
Catalogued your way
Every line of the entry has its place
Description, estimate, condition and provenance are separate parts of every lot on Auctionomy, and each one shows on the lot page. The entry shown here is an illustration, written the way the trade writes it.
Illustrative lot · fictional
South Australia, 1855 1d dark green, imperforate (SG 1), four clear to large margins
A fine used example cancelled by a numeral obliterator, with good colour for this printing. A collector's example from an old South Australia collection.
Estimate A$400–600
- Condition
- Four margins, clear at lower left. Small thin at top right, visible only in fluid. Colour fresh.
- Provenance
- Ex an Adelaide collection formed in the 1960s.
Your sale on Auctionomy
Run the way your house runs it
Lot fields that match the description
Every lot carries a description, a low and high estimate, a reserve, and separate condition and provenance notes, so a certificate or an ex-collection line has its own place on the lot page.
Several images per lot
Front and back of a cover, the gum side of a mint stamp, a block with its marginal markings: add as many images as the lot needs.
Timed sales for long catalogues
A philatelic sale can run to hundreds of lots of singles, sets and collections. Run it as a timed sale and the close extends when a late bid lands, so no lot is lost to the last second.
Absentee bids, as the trade expects
Bidders leave their limit and the engine bids for them in your increments, up to that limit, the way a book bid has always worked.
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Kestrel Bay Philatelic & Numismatic Auctions is a demonstration house: fictional, built on Auctionomy to show how a house specialising in stamps & postal history looks on the platform. Its name, colours, typeface and page layout are its own, assembled from the same components every house uses. Yours would carry your name, your logo and your look, on your own domain.
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