H R Harmer, the company that sold the Caspary collection, the Hind collection and the Roosevelt collection was acquired by Greg Manning auctions several years ago. When the Manning Afinsa deal began to disastrously unravel, the remaining company wisely dropped the Manning name and kept the prestigious Harmer moniker for their auctions. The company has […]
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The New York Times is reporting today on the US Budget deficit and how it should range in the trillion dollar a year level for years to come. The Times article parses blame for this (and there is plenty to go around) but the conclusion is that the political will to address the structural deficit
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The announcement by H R Harmer and Nutmeg (formerly Greg Manning Auctions) ends the east coast presence of an auction company that was holding New York area auctions since 1940. Nutmeg, which was the largest seller in the country in the old mail sale model of stamp sales, announced that they are suspending sales of
Apfelbaum has always been one of the leaders in stamp auctions. We’ve offered hundreds of thousands of lots and sold hundreds of millions of dollars worth of stamps at Public Auction, first by catalog only and now monthly live online. You can see information on our website on how to participate.But we have never forgotten
Philately is not an academic discipline. Thus, there is no set corpus of scholarly works that a philatelist should master in order to be well read in our field. This is fine in the sense that our hobby is just a hobby and as such really doesn’t need rules. But it also means that competent
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There is almost no aspect of political life that doesn’t have implications for our hobby. The issue of health care reform has more pertinacity to stamp collecting than most political issues because it bears so directly on the long term financial well being of our country and of all of us. And ultimately any business
The current owners of Apfelbaum are the great grandchildren of Maurice Apfelbaum who first became a stamp dealer in 1910-nearly 100 years ago. We are four- John, Ken, Missy, and Susanne. John (that’s me) is 56. I started collecting stamps when I was eight. The first set of stamps I ever bought was the Jules
Our company has always been an auction house, holding over 1070 auctions since 1930. About five years ago a number of our customers asked us if we could consider by a direct sales method. These buyers didn’t like auctions, the uncertainty as to price or the stress of not knowing whether they would win the
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The economy seems to have avoided meltdown. The boost was the the bank support package that Bush started and Obama is completing. It has prevented any further financial collapses. Credit and lending are no longer contracting. And the stimulus package has just began to come online. With the trillions of dollars being pumped into the