by Devlan Kruck | Jul 26, 2021 | Famous Philatelists, Weekly Digest
Last month we had a little interlude from our usual legendary collector series and although we said we’d return henceforth and unveil the intrepid J Harvey Pirie in this episode, we are in fact taking a small detour to introduce you to a great philatelic star from the...
by Devlan Kruck | Jul 23, 2021 | Rarities, Weekly Digest
If there was such a phrase as a ‘philatelist’s philatelist’ then you’d expect the qualities the said stamp person would possess would be those that made them revered by other philatelists rather than with coin collectors. And throughout philatelic history there have...
by Devlan Kruck | Jun 28, 2021 | Latest News & Press Release
There are times when a story doesn’t really need telling, it speaks for itself. And to a certain extent that is the case with our June Spring 2021 auction series, which successfully concluded just over a week ago, and this article could quite easily be distilled into...
by Devlan Kruck | Jun 28, 2021 | Latest News & Press Release
Back in that glimmering fourth month of the Gregorian calendar, April, we called your attention to the approaching auction of Russia Zemstvo issues, which was a mere fragment, albeit a sumptuous anthology, of a wide-ranging offering of Russia that included The...
by Devlan Kruck | Jun 28, 2021 | Auction Highlights, Rarities
In the northeastern Shandong province of the People’s Republic of China there is a coastal city called Yantai, which during the Qing dynasty (1644 to 1912) was known as Chefoo. What’s really fascinating about this fishing seaport is that back in the 1870s, when...
by Devlan Kruck | Jun 28, 2021 | Famous Philatelists
It’s a common misconception that philately is a male dominated activity. Indeed, the history books tell us a different story, because there have been females collecting stamps since its inception back in the late 1850s, and the philatelic records illustrate there are...
by Devlan Kruck | Jun 22, 2021 | Latest News & Press Release
There was an unmistakable steely determination around the David Feldman SA auction team at the start of last week and during the six days of almost unrelenting auction activity starting on Monday morning, which saw nearly 3900 lots sold and almost 5 million CHF in...
by Devlan Kruck | Jun 16, 2021 | Articles
It will come as no surprise to those in the philatelic world that some aspects of Chinese philately have a bit of a reputation for being highly collectable. As a consequence there is often a bit of a tussle, to say the least, at auctions for the very prized examples...
by Devlan Kruck | Jun 15, 2021 | Articles
In an auction week where there are six auction catalogues, covering every corner of the planet, and over 6000 lots; the auction proceedings, fittingly, began on Monday with the J. Chalhoub, part 4, Collection of Egypt and of the 275 lots the stand-out results were lot...
by Devlan Kruck | May 25, 2021 | Latest News & Press Release, Weekly Digest
There’s been a bit of a technological revolution going on over the last year. Commercial and domestic life adapting to restrictions has meant the acceleration of certain internet technologies and businesses. Of course there have been casualties, many of them on the...
by Devlan Kruck | May 24, 2021 | Rarities, Weekly Digest
No philatelists ever wants to draw a connection between bird excrement and a rare 1858 Peru cover franked with a ‘Medio Peso’ error of colour, estimated at 20-30’000 EUR (lot 61683). However, the fact is without ‘guano’ which is the accumulated waste from seabirds and...
by Devlan Kruck | May 22, 2021 | Auction Highlights, Weekly Digest
To many people, a tree is a tree. However, if you’re a botanist then there is a bit more to it than that. For starters, trees are perennial plants with a trunk, branches and leaves and there are around 100,000 different species, and even if you select just one of...
