Sam Houston Philatelics

Owner Bob Dumaine began business in 1966 and incorporated into Sam Houston Philatelics in 1975. The multi-functional company employs nine, operates a retail store, publishes a detailed price list of Federal and State Hunting Stamps, conducts 6-10 Mail, Internet, and Phone bidder auctions as well as 2-4 Public Auctions annually. Bob and Rita Dumaine are both licensed and bonded Texas auctioneers, license no. 6015 and no. 14049, respectively. Bob Dumaine is a life member of the ASDA, and APS, Founder of the NDSCS (National Duck Stamp Collector Society), and has served on the ASDA Board. Both have served as judges in the prestigious Federal Duck Stamp Contest. The company publishes The Duck Report, a journal for duck stamp collectors free to customers. Bob co-edited the defining work on duck stamps, The Duck Stamp Story, and published a monthly duck stamp column for Linn's Stamp News for 18 years, and Stamp Collector for three years. Specialties are of course duck stamps, as well as all graded stamps (see shpgraded.com), auctions, errors, general United States and Worldwide stamps. Other web sites not listed to the left include: SHDuck.com and ShpBuy.com. Public Auction. Mail or Internet Sales. Mail Bids Accepted. Telephone Bids Accepted. Fax Bids Accepted. Catalog on the Internet. EMail Bids Accepted. Agents Names Available. Limit Bids. Or Bids. Color Catalogs. Prices Realized. Winning bid emails, update on bid status. Licensed and Bonded. 80% of lots are illustrated, some are in color. Bid Method: First Advance/Increment over 2nd highest bid. Listed in Catalog: Catalog Values. Estimates. We accept Consignments. The Minimum is $1,000. We do not normally give cash advances. Auction Agents: Mandel, Purser, Cwiakala. to get addresses of auction agents Specialties: Airmails, Autographs, BOB, Classics, Covers, Documents, Duck Prints, Duck Stamp FDCs, Duck Stamps, EFO's, Federal Duck Stamps, Foreign, General Collections, Governor's Edition Stamps, Graded Stamps, Postal History, Prints, Revenues, State Duck Stamps, United States, World Wide Collections.