http://www.linns.com/en/marketplace...ldwide-.html"Rasdale Stamp Co. is presenting its 425th public auction Aug. 15 and 16 at the firm's gallery in Westmont, Ill., just west of Chicago.
The auction lots are listed with images on the Rasdale Stamp Co. website, and bids can be placed online.
The current sale consists of more than 575 lots from 85 owners, and ranges from single stamps and covers to large lots, accumulations and collections.
The material on offer is worldwide in scope, with many U.S. regular issues, airmails and back of the book, plus international lots organized by individual countries.
Much of what's being offered in this sale, including many of the large lots, comes from the stamp business of Ohio dealer Jim Linker, who died March 21.
Mr. Linker operated a retail stamp store in Columbus, conducted mail-order sales, and was a dealer at numerous large shows each year.
Rasdale notes that the consignment of Mr. Linker's material in addition to the other lots in this sale results in "the largest public auction ever assembled in the Midwest.""
I had not heard that Mr Linker, owner of Link Stamp Company, had passed away earlier in the year, I dealt with him off and on in the 1990s and early 2000s, and eventually sold my first worldwide collection to him in 2004 to fund my startup company. He was quite the character, a fount of knowledge about stamps who also was not shy to share his (very right-of center) political views freely with his customers. I always meant to get back to dealing with him when I restarted collecting after 2010, but this, that and the other meant never had the chance. Funny to think that some of the stamps I owned back before 2004 might now be part of some of the lots in this Rasdale auction.
ETA : looking at some of the lot descriptions did make me smile..some of the descriptions that have -issues running to 2001- probably include part of my first collection, as I was buying new issues of several nations up until the end of 2001.
Posted 07/24/2015 8:52 pm
