WEEDA STAMPS (VANCOUVER) WEEKLY BIDBOARD AUCTION
Closing 12:30 p.m., Saturday, September 13, 2003

Every week, Weeda Stamps* of Vancouver, British Columbia offers 150 lots of
Canada and worldwide stamps, postal history, collections, and accumulations
in its bidboard auction. I help out the owner, Beverly Fox, by listing some
highlights from her auctions here on r.c.s.m. I'm a bit late this week, but
that means you can see how the initial bidding is going.

I always try to find lots which interest me personally, never a
very tough job, and this week was especially easy: two quartettes of
lower-value Canada Admirals, and a high-value single. Almost an entire
squadron! Here are the beautiful details:

Lot #17: http://www.weeda.com/stampimages/17.jpg -- Canada #105, 107, 109,
110. MNH Admirals

Lot #18: http://www.weeda.com/stampimages/18.jpg -- Canada #106, 108, 114,
115. Fine MNH Admirals. 1911-1925

Lot # 19: http://www.weeda.com/stampimages/19.jpg -- Canada #122. VF MNH
1923 $1 Admiral

I'll depart from my usual practice of listing three lots, and take you back
a few years, to the Small Queens. Lot #8 this week consists of a dozen
Canada Small Queens, 1c and 3c values. Six of one and a half dozen of the
other, used with fancy cancels. That's a nice target cancel! I can easily
envision two album pages featuring these stamps:
http://www.weeda.com/stampimages/8.jpg

Except for large items such as collections, box lots and accumulations, most
of Weeda's auction lots are illustrated. For the full list, as well as
prices realized in the previous four auctions, go to the Weeda Stamps web
site at http://www.weeda.com. BIDS, IN CANADIAN DOLLARS, CAN BE PLACED IN
PERSON, BY TELEPHONE, OR ON-LINE UNTIL 12:30 P.M. PDT ON SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER
13, 2003.

A note about "prices realized": Only rarely does bidding in philatelic
auctions reach the estimated values. If you study the listings and the
prices realized, you'll see that bargains are waiting for any collector. It
is common for expensive and even rare stamps, covers and other philatelic
items to sell in auctions for as little as 10% or 20% of the estimate.

Even if you won't be bidding, check out these other features on the Weeda
web site:

-- The Dutch Auction http://www.weeda.com/dutch.cfm

-- Beverly's Best Buys http://www.weeda.com/classifieds.cfm

-- The Fox Tales Newsletter http://www.weeda.com/news.cfm

Need a clock? Look at the antique clocks that Beverly is advertising for one
of her customers: http://www.weeda.com/details.cfm?id=301. One is an
Ingraham clock! No relation, unfortunately!

Bob Ingraham

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* Weeda Stamps is owned and operated by Beverly Fox. Here's a recent
photograph of her, taken in her stamp shop at 525 Seymour Street in
Vancouver: http://www.ingraham.ca/bob/beverly1.jpg. You can see a picture
of the heritage building where her shop is located at
http://www.ingraham.ca/bob/dealerairbev.html.