We hold auctions every few weeks throughout the season (approx. September to June). These in the main are general stamp auctions, but we do occasionally have sales of other material. Most stamp auctions can also have smaller sections of postcards, coins, cigarette cards, medals, banknotes, and the like, and about every third auction includes a stronger Collectables section. Our sales are Public Auctions, held always on a Monday evening (normally 7.00pm start, with viewing of larger lots from 3pm and smaller lots from 5pm) at the Stewart's-Melville Club Pavilion, which is 650 metres west from our shop, on the same road (Ferry Road). Viewing is available in our shop in the week preceding the sale, and it is also sometimes possible to get scans by email (or photocopies of suitable lots for a small charge). Images of some lots may be viewed in this website, and email requests for lots to be added to the available selection will be considered (although not always acted upon !). The vast majority of lots come from third parties, for whom we are selling on commission. To the pleasure of our customers, buyers are not faced with complicated invoices with numerous additional charges; there is a simple buyer's premium of 10% added to the price at which lots are knocked down (this includes value-added tax). There is no handling charge per lot or per invoice, nor is there any v.a.t. charged in addition to the knock-down price. What you pay is the price the hammer falls at plus 10%. Postal buyers are charged simply the cost of postage onto the price of their lots. There is no additional fee for the use of credit or debit cards (as long as postal buyers give their details at the time of making their bids). Some of our auctions are described as "Stamp Auctions" and will be almost entirely stamps, though usually with a small section of non-philatelic lots. Other auctions are "Stamps and Collectables" and these have much stronger Collectables sections, which will include postcards, cigarette & trade cards, coins, medals, banknotes, and other categories.