Hellman Auktionen

Hellman Auction #136 on March 11th - 14th 2026

The auction includes a lot of worldwide philately, mainly in intact lots and collections and also as single items. Main focus is on the Finnish stamps, collections and postal history. Auction includes also other collectibles such as numismatics, postcards, military, silver, vintage, jewelry and many other areas of collectables.

The sale includes for example almost 30 lots of 1856 oval issue stamps and plenty of other classic Finnish stamps like 1866 10 penni colour error (10 penni on 5 penni colour), rare issue 1875 postal items, 1875 5 penni vertical tête-bêche pair, 1882 20 penni two horizontal tête-bêche pairs, 1911 rare used 40 penni with perforation B, issue 1917 (model Saarinen) including plenty or rarities (perforations and watermarks) like 1920 10 penni B and 50 penni B, very rare 1925 40 penni A with inverted swastika watermark and wide numbers, 1927 1 markka AW4 and many more, Zeppelin 1830 error print stamp in a pair and a single stamp, Finnish early slot machine booklets (old exhibition collection) in many lots, ss volunteer mail, Aunus 5 markka and 10 markka stamps, complete sheet of 1922 Karelia stamps (15 sheets), and many other key items in Finnish philately, also plenty of postal items, rare postmarks etc.

Foreign section has plenty of interesting lots, better collections and single items from Europe and overseas. The auction includes eg. interesting selection of British Commonwealth collections, nice collections as well as single stamps from various German areas, eg. double overprints and inverted overprints from inflation period, Saar 1920 Mi 31DD, bizone net and band overprints, Russia Mi 1 cancelled in Reval, modern Russia material, several interesting items from Estonia including many newspapers franked with single stamps, excellent postal items lots as well as collection.

Numismatics section of the auction is strong, including many rare Finnish coins like 1864 1 penni (three lots), 1872 25 penni II, 1876 50 penni, 1889 50 penni, 1918 5 penni iron (two lots), 1949 1 markka copper etc. Auction includes also almost 300 gold coin lots like Mexico 1947 50 Peso, Canada 1979 50$ (two lots), Canada 1980 50$, USA 1882 20$ Liberty Head, USA 1908 and 1925 20$ Double Eagle, Turkey 1969 500 Kurush and many other spectacular gold coins. Also plenty of Finnish Specimen banknotes and other banknote varieties.

Auction includes also a great variety of military related items like clothing, bayonets, swords, armbands, medals of honor etc.

The auction consists of 3490 lo