28/05/2026
T&T Auctions - 14th May Auction Highlights
Our latest auction delivered outstanding results across coins, stamps and collectables, with fierce bidding on everything from rare gold coins to historic stamps and military memorabilia.
Highlights include:
A 1937 King George VI Coronation Specimen Gold Four-Coin Proof Set achieving £11,900
An 1887 Queen Victoria Jubilee Head Gold & Silver Eleven-Coin Set realising £6,450
An 1813 King George III Military Guinea, graded PCGS MS63, selling for £7,800
A substantial King George VI British Commonwealth stamp collection reaching £5,000
A 14kg world coin accumulation - including pre-1947 silver coins and banknotes - at £4,200
A collection of British military cap badges, including Gloucestershire Regiment and Palestine Police examples, realised £170.
A collection of several hundred Thailand mint unmounted/mounted complete stamp sheets and sheetlets from 1957–1999, housed in 22 albums, sold for £3,200 against a Scott catalogue value exceeding $62,900.*
A ten-volume QEII Smiler Sheet collection to 2024 achieving £2,700**
Another standout in the stamp section was a group of 21 Penny Black stamps from 1840, including several attractive four-margin examples, which realised £1,600.***
*The market for Thailand and other Asia material remains particularly strong at present, with increasing international demand for better mid-to-late 20th century material. Collections that may have sat untouched for years are now attracting significant auction interest from specialist buyers worldwide.
**Modern Royal Mail material continues to perform strongly. Many households have built up presentation packs, Smiler sheets, commemorative issues and limited-edition releases over the years, often tucked away in drawers or cupboards and forgotten about. As this auction demonstrated, these collections can attract significant interest and may be worth far more than expected.
***As the world’s first adhesive postage stamp used in a public postal system, the Penny Black remains one of Britain’s most famous and collectable stamps, continuing to capture the imagination of collectors nearly 200 years later. Many people still discover early Victorian stamps hidden away in old albums, family correspondence and inherited collections often without realising collectors are actively searching for them today.
View all of our realised prices via the following link. https://www.easyliveauction.com/catalogue/4c870566ad5bf100e2255bf945439bd3/0af8d24542e81eb9357e7ef448a6646f/may-14th-auction-specialised-stamp-cigarette-card-and-coi/
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