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Hong Kong Autumn Auction 2011 Press Articles

2011-11-16 Hong Kong Daily News, 2011-11-22 Ming Pao Daily News, 2011-11-22 MASTV, 2011-11-22 MASTV News (Video), 2011-11-22 Hong Kong Economic Times, 2011-11-23 Headline Daily, 2011-11-23 HKCNA, 2011-11-23 on.cc, 2011-11-23 The Sun, 2011-11-23 Xinhua Daily Telegraph,...

The Burrus cover from the Karpov Collection

Belgium Collection formed by Anatoly Karpov Lot 30102, 8th December 2011 Auction 17 examples of the 1849 Medaillon 40c Carmine-rose on a cover front from Nieuport How can you find the missing 40c stamp ? This item is a cover front with a massive franking of 17...

One of the “Crown Jewels” of Classic Denmark

The second Danish stamp issued was the 2 R.B.S. (Rigsbankskilling) value, which first appeared on April 28, 1851, nearly a month after the 4 R.B.S.  Its purpose was, at first, to pre-pay delivery of mail “within the ramparts” (i.e. within the city walls)...

The Most Important Stamp of Rhodesia

British Africa has its fair share of immensely rare stamps: the primitive manuscript surcharges of Uganda and of the Oil Rivers high values, some of the Boer War local provisionals, the scarcer Madagascar “missionaries” all jump to mind. But the regularly...