CISS Spring Auction NS28 – 25th April 2026
Our Spring auction is a postal and room auction and will be held at the members meeting at Kenilworth on Saturday 25th April.
This is another bumper one with 760 lots including Forwarding Agents and other early postal history including a penny black on cover. Some rare Red Cross message items and a wide range of Occupation material, Liberation, Feldpost, good selections of postage due and instructional markings, post 1969 stamps and covers. The smaller islands are well represented especially Commodore items for Alderney and Sark together with a nice range of Herm, Lihou, Jethou and Brechou stamps and covers.
For the postcard collectors there are good ranges of Allix and LL cards, shipping, hotels as well as the more unusual ones.
There are some old prints of the islands, old maps and some interesting books on the Occupation as well as earlier history. We have one lot of old Guernsey coins and finally a lot being sold for charity donated by David Laurillard, our President, which is lot 760.
Reserves range for £0 to £300
Postal and e-mail bids must be received by the auctioneer by 9am on Friday 24th April.
The catalogue with images can be found via this link HERE
The bidders form can be download HERE
The printed catalogue can be downloaded HERE
Please note that the bids will be recorded on our new web based system so any bids which do not correspond to the bidding step will be rounded up to the next step so please chack your bids before suibmitting them. Thank you,
General Information on Auctions
At present the Society holds two postal auctions each year in the Spring and the Autumn. A room auction of approximately 50 lots is also held at each General Meeting. While these are a very important source of revenue to the Society, our members also benefit as these auctions are only open to members. The continuance of these auctions depends on the availability of material and all members are urged to take this into consideration when disposing of unwanted items.
In view of the heavy workload involved the role of Auction Secretary has been split into two.
Gerald Marriner is responsible for compiling and preparing the auction list. Before sending him any material, along with a description, please contact the auctioneer first; Nick Stuart at auctioneer@ciss.uk.
Nick will also deal with all other matters. Bids should be returned to him, either by email sent to auctioneer@ciss.uk or by post as indicated on the bid form.
Printed copies of the auction list will be sent to all UK and C.I. members. All overseas members will receive their auction list by email.
Customs Duty / Charges
As the United Kingdom is no longer a member of the European Union, Lots sent from EU members or other countries for sale via the auction may be subject to UK Customs Duty. If this happens then the costs incurred by the Society will be charged back to the selling member. Similarly, when Lots are sent out to members in the EU or other countries they maybe subject to a Custom’s Charge in that country. The buying member will be responsible for paying that charge.
