Top of the Market? PIMCO's Bill Gross Continues Auctioning Stamp Collection

We last looked at Bill-the-Philatelist in "Stamp Collecting for Fun and Profit (PIMCO's Bill Gross and his $100 Million Collection Swing By)" with an amazing paper by London Business School Emeritus Fellow /Norwegian sovereign fund strategy chair/ Cambridge prof./all-around good guy Elroy Dimson.

The most recent auction, the first to include U.S. issues, went off on April 9, here's Nightly Business Report with the details:


Here's the Auctioneers announcement via StampAuctionNetwork:

Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries, Inc. Sale - 1041

  The William H. Gross Collection: 1847 & 1851-56 Issues - April 9, 2013   The 375 lots in this catalogue comprise a selection of items from the 1847 and 1851-56 Issues collected by Mr. Gross during the past twenty years. He possesses an impressive quantity of 1847 and 1851-56 Issue covers. So much, in fact, that he feels he might be depriving other collectors of the opportunity to build their own collections. 

As Mr. Gross and his wife, Sue, have so generously done with all of their stamp proceeds, the money from this auction will be immediately donated to two major charitable institutions—Doctors Without Borders/Medecins San Frontieres and Millennium Villages Project at the Earth Institute.
The auction is held in collaboration with Charles F. Shreve and Tracy L. Shreve. 


First Session (lots 1-123): Tuesday, April 9, 2013, at 10:30 a.m.
Second Session (lots 124-375): Tuesday, April 9, 2013, at 1:30 p.m.   For more information please contact us at:

Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries, Inc.
60 East 56th Street, 4th Floor
New York, New York 10022
Phone: (212) 753-6421
Fax: (212) 753-6429

To request more information by email. stamps@siegelauctions.com
Visit our Home Page at Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries, Inc.

Finally, the press release with many more details:

PIMCO Founder Bill Gross Will Sell Some Of His Historic U.S. Stamps in New York City Charity Auction