UNITED STATES: COMPLETE COLLECTION OF UNITED STATES STAMPS SET FOR AUCTION IN NEW YORK

Record ID: 337669

  • Title: UNITED STATES: COMPLETE COLLECTION OF UNITED STATES STAMPS SET FOR AUCTION IN NEW YORK
  • Date: 7th October 1998
  • Summary: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (OCTOBER 7, 1998) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. SV SHOT OF 1-CENT Z GRILL STAMP AND FIVE Z GRILLS 0.07 2. SEMI-CLOSE UP 5 Z GRILL STAMPS 0.12 3. CLOSE UP ROBERT ZOELLNER COLLECTIN OF GRILLS 0.17 4. SCU/CLOSE UP 1 CENT Z GRILL (RAREST U.S. STAMP) (3 SHOTS) 0.29 5. SV SCOTT TREPEL, PRESIDENT OF SIEGEL AUCTIONS INC "TOMORROW NIGHT WE'LL BEGIN AUCTIONING THE FIRST COMPLETE U.S. STAMP COLLECTION. WHAT THAT MEANS IS THAT THIS MAN HAS SUCCEEDED IN FINDING AN EXAMPLE OF EVERY STAMP THAT WAS ISSUED IN THE U.S. BETWEEN 1847 AND 1947 AND HE'S ASSEMBLED SAMPLES OF ALL THOSE STAMPS. NO ONE HAS DONE IT BEFORE AND CERTAINLY NO ONE HAS SOLD A COLLECTION AT AUCTION LIKE THIS BEFORE" (ENGLISH) 0.54 6. SV'S STAMP COLLECTORS LOOKING THROUGH CATALOGUE AND COLLECTION (2 SHOTS) 1.05 7. CU/SCU HARRY HAGENDORF, DEALER IN RARE STAMPS "BECAUSE ITS THE KIND OF STAMP THAT WILL ATTRACT SOMEONE OUTSIDE THE PHILATELIC WORLD AS WELL AS A COLLECTOR WHO HASN'T EVER THOUGHT ABOUT BUYING SOEMTHING ON THAT LEVEL UNTIL NOW BECAUSE ITS THE U.S. RAREST STAMP" (ENGLISH) (2 SHOTS) 1.23 8. SV Z GRILLS ON DISPLAY 1.28 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 22nd October 1998 13:00
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  • Location: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
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  • Country: USA
  • Reuters ID: LVA83E7QG4JB4TYKE9PX5GLMORAI
  • Story Text: A 'one-of-a-kind' stamp collection goes on the auction block in New York this week, and it could fetch up as much as eight million U.S.dollars.

    For the first time ever, a complete collection of United States Stamps is going under the hammer.

    Siegel Auction Galleries of New York will offer the Robert Zoellner Collection at unreserved public auction.The collection is estimated to bring between six and eight million U.S.dollars.

    Only one person at a time can own a complete collection of United States stamps for this time frame as one of the keys to a complete collection is the rare 1-cent Z Grill from 1868.

    Only two copies of this stamp are known (one is in The New York Public Library's collection).

    Zoellner acquired the the 1-cent Z Grill for 418,000 U.S.

    dollars in 1986, which at the time set a record price for a U.S.stamp.Expectations are that the stamp will again break the record for a single U.S.stamp.

    Zoellner started collecting in 1984, painstakingly searching for the finest quality and aggressively acquiring those that made the grade.

    Siegel Auction Galleries, has been holding regular stamp auctions since 1930 and has sold some of the greatest collections ever formed.
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