by Devlan Kruck | Dec 10, 2020 | Latest News & Press Release, Weekly Digest
You’ll recall Phileas Fogg and his trusty valet Jean Passepartout helped us illustrate the epic auction journey we were about to embark upon last week, which included nine catalogues, and propelled us on a wager ‘Around the World in Five Days’. The original 1873 novel...
by Devlan Kruck | Dec 9, 2020 | Rarities, Weekly Digest
Mongolia and Genghis Khan are intrinsically intertwined. Genghis Khan invokes the memory of the world’s largest ever Empire, along with the obvious Mongol invasions and conquerings, which sadly conjures up visions of large-scale massacres of civilian populations...
by Devlan Kruck | Dec 9, 2020 | Famous Philatelists, Weekly Digest
When organising this philatelic collection of legends there are occasions when one or two of the ‘books’ get shuffled out of sequence. Our incumbent John Walter Scott a point in case, when I’d confessed that it was my original intention to flick straight...
by Ricky Verra | Dec 9, 2020 | Articles, Latest News & Press Release, Weekly Digest
David Feldman SA has been delighted to offer many showpiece items for sale privately in 2020, with several stunning 1840 Penny Blacks and Twopenny Blues of Great Britain as well as major rarities of Italian States. To finish the year, we have a further selection of...
by Marcus Orsi | Dec 1, 2020 | Latest News & Press Release
The first day of our Autumn Auction Series opened with much active bidding for the sale of the Joe Youssefi collection of Persia. In these unprecedented COVID times, the majority of the action was through the more than 50 bidders connected online through our bespoke...
by Devlan Kruck | Nov 25, 2020 | Latest News & Press Release, Weekly Digest
Phileas Fogg might have circumnavigate the world in eighty days with the help of his trusty valet ‘Jean Passepartout’ in Jules Verne’s book, but David Feldman will wager you that we can go ‘Around the World in Five Days’ with the aid of a technological ‘passeport’ and...
by Devlan Kruck | Nov 25, 2020 | Articles
As if to reflect the landlocked region that boasts the world’s highest mountain, our ‘Overseas & Latin America’ auction catalogue has nestled amongst Asian a special section on ‘Tibet – Everest Expeditions’. And if you scroll through this attractively...
by Devlan Kruck | Nov 25, 2020 | Articles
Just a few sentimental weeks ago we were reminiscing about Sean Connery’s role in the Bond movie ‘Goldfinger’, where we marvelled at the seemingly mystical, gravitational pull there is towards Geneva, and certainly back then our Prussian Blue cover fitted our...
by Devlan Kruck | Nov 25, 2020 | Articles
So, I’m going to backtrack here because having brought you up to date with Frederick J Melville’s contribution to philately during the early to mid 1900’s, I was about to introduce you to James L Lindsay, the Earl of Crawford, but you can’t do that unless you at least...
by Ricky Verra | Nov 12, 2020 | Latest News & Press Release, Weekly Digest
The Basel Dove celebrated its 175th anniversary on July 1st this year. An exhibition in Basel planned to celebrate this momentous occasion in Swiss and indeed World philately earlier this month, but unfortunately had to be cancelled due to the developing Covid-19...
by Devlan Kruck | Nov 12, 2020 | Articles, Famous Philatelists, Weekly Digest
We’ve just spent a pleasant moment appreciating the philatelic landscape and the tree at the center of our horizon that represented our last legend Charles Lathrop Pack. Now we must turn our gaze inside the building from where we are standing and look around the...
by Devlan Kruck | Nov 11, 2020 | Rarities, Weekly Digest
There was something smelly going on in late January 1855, and it all seemed to originate from the foul stink permeating from the Crimea War. The Duke of Newcastle, Henry Pelham-Clinton, was the Secretary of War for the British Government from June 1854 but resigned...
