Saxony three-pfennig red reaches €3,700 at Dresdner sale 193
Philately NewsDresdner Briefmarken Auktion lists a hammer price of €3,700 for lot 1286, a light brick-red Saxony three-pfennig stamp, in its 193rd sale of 10–12 November 2026. The auctioneer’s starting price was €2,200. The stamp is identified as plate II, type 10, with broad margins and a double-ring Dresden cancellation dated 25 August 1850. The auctioneer noted a slightly rough or pale patch on the reverse and cited a Rismondo BPP certificate dated 19 April 2006.
The next lot, a plate III three-pfennig red from sheet position 19 with a Mittweida cancellation, is listed at €1,700. Another Saxony highlight, lot 1312, reached €1,150 against a €300 start. It bears a three-neugroschen stamp and a Dresden mark dated 26 September 1859 on a letter with a large lithograph of city views. Lot 1360, a folded letter to New York with three- and ten-neugroschen stamps and a Leipzig railway-station mark dated 27 February 1861, reached €800.
The auctioneer advertised about 4,800 lots across the sale, including roughly 1,000 collections. The catalogue singled out Saxony, the German Democratic Republic and the People’s Republic of China. These figures are hammer prices from the results pages, rather than invoices including fees.
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