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Bruun Rasmussen: Postal History

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Auction Name Postal History Total Sales (DKK) 78,150.00
Auction Date September 08, 2024 - September 08, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (DKK) 39,200.00
Sale Number #2436b High Estimate of Lots Sold (DKK) 39,200.00
Total Lots 36
Sold Lots 33 Low Estimate of All Lots (DKK) 44,700.00
% of Lots Sold 91.67% High Estimate of All Lots (DKK) 44,700.00
Unsold Lots 3 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 174.83%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
4084

Postal-sign. Double sided red enamel sign "KONGELIG POST OG TELEGRAF".

DKK 4,000.00 - 4,000.00 DKK 13,125.00
4082

Postal-sign. "GRONLANDS POSTVAESEN". Large oval sign in perfect condition

DKK 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 DKK 10,000.00
4145

Fogtman. "Register over de Kongelige Resulotioner og Collegialbreve aar 1660=1800" + Ussing "Love og Anordninger samt andre offentlige Kundgorelser".

DKK 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 DKK 6,875.00
4089

Postal-sign. Red enamel sign "KONGELIGT TOLDKAMMER"

DKK 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 DKK 4,250.00
4092

Postal-sign. Red oval emamel sign "KONGELIG POST". Perfect condition

DKK 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 DKK 4,000.00
4088

Postal-sign. Red enamel sign "KONGELIG POST OG TELEGRAF". Very fine condition

DKK 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 DKK 3,750.00
4003

Steam-Ship-Rutes. Original poster from 1854 with notes on "De Kongelige Danske Postdampskibe" with postal rates.

1854 DKK 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 DKK 3,375.00
4091

Postal-sign. Red enamel sign "POST OG TELEGRAF". Fine condition

DKK 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 DKK 2,875.00
4085

Postal-sign. Very old enamel-sign "POSTEKSPEDITION"

DKK 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 DKK 2,750.00
4144

Litteratur. Essays og Proofs. 4 books/booklets about the topic.

DKK 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 DKK 2,000.00
4093

Postal-sign. Red oval enamel sign "POST". Fine condition

DKK 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 DKK 1,875.00
4090

Postal-sign. Red enamel sign "FRIMAERKESALG" with crown and posthorn

DKK 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 DKK 1,750.00
4079

Postal-sign. "Endvidere kan Telegrammer indleveres...."

DKK 600.00 - 600.00 DKK 1,687.50
4094

Postal-sign. Red oval enamel sign "POST". Fine condition

DKK 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 DKK 1,687.50
4042

Post=Kaart. Original "POST=KAART over Dannemark og alle Faergesteder 1796".

DKK 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 DKK 1,562.50
4001

Cover-album. Wonderful old and very large leather-album

DKK 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 DKK 1,500.00
4081

Postal-sign. "FRIMAERKESALG". Roed enamel-sign

DKK 800.00 - 800.00 DKK 1,500.00
4057

Post-effects. 4 original old maps of Denmark. dated 1732, 1808, 1825 and 1827

1732, 1808, 1825 and 1827 DKK 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 DKK 1,312.50
4000

Album-fronts. Most unusual lot with more than 25 fronts of old Schaubek-albums etc.

DKK 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 DKK 1,250.00
4087

Postal-sign. Red metal-sign "POST"

DKK 600.00 - 600.00 DKK 1,250.00
4061

Post-effects. Original 2 RBS cliche from Svend Gronlunds article in NFT 4/1955.

1955 DKK 600.00 - 600.00 DKK 1,187.50
4080

Post-sign. "FRIMAERKESALG" (22x30 cm.) mounted on a wooden plate. Also enclosed one old Postal cap

DKK 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 DKK 1,125.00
4137

Postal-Map. Framed "POST-TABEL indeholdende Oplysninger om til hvilken Tid de fra Kjobenhavn afgaaende ordinaere Brev Poster ankomme til Stederne i Kongeriget Danmark".

1833 DKK 600.00 - 600.00 DKK 1,062.50
4083

Postal-sign. "Kontortid for Post og Telegraf.....". Red enamel sign in perfect condition

DKK 600.00 - 600.00 DKK 1,000.00
4142

Litteratur. Danmarks Tofarvede Frimaerker 1870--1905. Complete set of 6 books. Af Lasse Nielsen.

DKK 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 DKK 1,000.00
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    17th July 2025
    Forum, July 17: Lucianus Samosatensis. Dialogoi, editio princeps, second issue, Florence, Laurentius Francisci de Alopa, 1496. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, July 17: Boccaccio (Giovanni). Il Decamerone, Florence, Philippo di Giunta, 1516. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, July 17: Henry VII (King) & Philip the Fair (Duke of Burgundy). [Intercursus Magnus], [Commercial and Political Treaty between Henry VII and Philip Duke of Burgundy], manuscript copy in Latin, original vellum, 1499. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum, July 17: Bible, English. The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New, Robert Barker, 1613. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, July 17: Bond (Michael). A Bear Called Paddington, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1958. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    17th July 2025
    Forum, July 17: Yeats (William Butler). The Secret Rose, first edition, with extensive autograph corrections, additions and amendments by the author for a new edition, 1897. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, July 17: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, bound in dark green morocco elaborately tooled in gilt and with 3 watercolours to fore-edge, by Fazakerley of Liverpool, 1841. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, July 17: Miró (Juan), Wassily Kandinsky, John Buckland-Wright, Stanley William Hayter and others.- Spender (Stephen). Fraternity, one of 101 copies, with signed engravings by 9 artists. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, July 17: Sowerby (George Brettingham). Album comprising 22 leaves of original watercolour drawings of fossil remains of Cheltenham and Vicinity, [c.1840]. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, July 17: Mathematics.- Blue paper copy.- Euclid. De gli Elementi, Urbino, Appresso Domenico Frisolino, 1575. £12,000 to £18,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Geek Week
    2-17 July | New York
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Buzz Aldrin's FLOWN Apollo 11 Crew-Signed NASA Manned Spacecraft Center Cover. $15,000 to $20,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Lunar Surface Flown Mission Emblem Presented to Tom Stafford by John Young. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 17: Albert Einstein. Typed Letter Signed ("A. Einstein."), to Ann Morrisett, Affirming a Pacifist's Right to Self-Defense, March 21, 1952. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Geek Week
    2-17 July | New York
    Sotheby’s, July 17: Operating and Maintenance Manual for the BINAC Binary Automatic Computer Built for Northrop Aircraft Corporation. Philadelphia, 1949. $30,000 to $50,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 17: Steve Jobs Apple Computer Business Card, c. 1977. $5,000 to $8,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Extensive Chronology of Spacecraft From Apollo to Skylab, Signed by a Member of Every Crewed Apollo Flight and the Commanders of Each Skylab Mission. $5,000 to $8,000.
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  • DOYLE
    Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
    July 23, 2025
    DOYLE, July 23: WALL, BERNHARDT. Greenwich Village. Types, Tenements & Temples. Estimate $300-500
    DOYLE, July 23: STOKES, I. N. PHELPS. The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909. New York: Robert H. Dodd, 1915-28. Estimate: $3,000-5,000
    DOYLE, July 23: [AUTOGRAPH - US PRESIDENT]FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. A signed photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Estimate $500-800
    DOYLE, July 23: [ARION PRESS]. ABBOTT, EDWIN A. Flatland. A Romance of Many Dimensions. San Francisco, 1980. Estimate $2,000-3,000.
    DOYLE, July 23: TOLSTOY, LYOF N. and NATHAN HASKELL DOLE, translator. Anna Karénina ... in eight parts. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., [1886]. Estimate: $400-600
    DOYLE, July 23: ROWLING, J.K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. London: Bloomsbury, 2000. Estimate $1,200-1,800