Welcome

Our last auction, number 356,
closed Wednesday, 26 March 2025, at 4:00 p.m. EDT (-04 GMT)

OUR APOLOGIES

Gil is currently on medical leave, so we are down to one person in the office.

We have finally assigned lots to winning bidders for sale 356, and have posted Prices Realized here. Please use the menu on the left to display the list. We have begun mailing lots to our winning bidders, but expect that job to take a week or more.

We apologize for the delay, and thank you for your patience while we work through our short-staffing issues.

We are a quality stamp auction house serving collectors and dealers since 1975. We strive to provide accurate descriptions, realistic estimates, and a no-nonsense return policy. Most lots in our sales are from consignors, but some material we own outright. We are always looking for new material and invite you to submit your quality items (collections or individual stamps and covers) for consignment or outright purchase.

We hold six auctions each year. In each auction we try to provide a wide range of stamps, covers and collections with appeal to the most meticulous collector as well as to the beginner and bargain hunter. Printed catalogs are mailed about one month prior to each sale; the on-line catalog is available several weeks earlier.

Although many bidders submit bids through the Stamp Auction Network (SAN), about 80% of our bids are received by postal mail, email, fax, and phone. For bidders on the SAN website, that means you may not be seeing the current high bid on a lot, and you may want to submit your highest bid at once. If your bid tops the the next highest bid, you will be charged only one bid increment over that bid (see our How To Bid page).

We are proud to honor, and to observe in all our business dealings, the American Philatelic Society's (APS) Code of Ethics and Internet Code of Ethics.

Customer satisfaction is our primary goal. If you are unhappy, we are unhappy. We hope you will come to enjoy the personal service we have offered to our customers over the years.

Downeast Stamps is a sole proprietorship owned and operated by Gilbert M. Roderick with premises in Bangor, Maine USA. Originally established in 1969 as an approval service, Downeast gradually evolved through dealing at bourses, and finally into a public auction house in 1975.

Gil has been a member of APS since 1974.