by Devlan Kruck | Oct 22, 2020 | Famous Philatelists
It’s not often you can say here’s a philatelist you’d trust with your life, and not only that this gentleman brings a lifetime of heroics and some Arab spice to the affair. Oh, and if that isn’t enough, then he also enables us to slot into our postage portrayals three...
by Devlan Kruck | Oct 22, 2020 | Rarities, Weekly Digest
Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I (1830 to 1916) was also the King of Hungary, Croatia, and Bohemia, and monarch of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He’s a fascinating fellow if you care to dig around in the history files. Not least because quite a few of his closest and...
by Devlan Kruck | Oct 21, 2020 | Auction Highlights
Right, if we are going to do justice to our Olympic auction, let’s start at the very beginning, which is not to be confused with the lyrics from ‘The Sound of Music’, ‘Do-re-mi’, although there’s a ‘long way to run’ given the Olympics are synonymous with the Marathon...
by Devlan Kruck | Oct 21, 2020 | Famous Philatelists, Weekly Digest
Now is an opportune moment to introduce our next legendary collector, because he helped several of the philatelists we have already featured to establish their collections as some of the world’s greatest ever stamp collections. Sir Edward Denny Bacon (1860 to 1938)...
by Ricky Verra | Oct 8, 2020 | Auction Highlights, Weekly Digest
Our October 27th-28th auction series will feature the second and final part of the “Tatiana” collection of Mauritius, which will offer 44 lots of the “Dardenne” issues. So-called, because the engraving of these 1d and 2d values was made by...
by Devlan Kruck | Oct 6, 2020 | Rarities, Weekly Digest
Just imagine you’ve received an envelope with a letter inside that would incriminate you and the sender. What would you do? Would you burn it? That seems the most sensible action to take. Burn it and the incriminating cover is gone forever. No need to worry anymore....
by Devlan Kruck | Oct 5, 2020 | Latest News & Press Release, Weekly Digest
“It seems that you’ve been living two lives. In one life, you’re David Feldman, respectable International Auctioneer. You pay your taxes, and you help your clients buy and sell their prized possessions. The other life is lived in computers, where you carry out every...
by Devlan Kruck | Oct 2, 2020 | Famous Philatelists, Weekly Digest
We need to write a job description for a teacher at the School of Philately, and the vacancy is for a Head of department. It will go along the lines of: A Philatelic Science Head Teacher to provide direction on syllabus, give instruction and guidance to students so...
by Devlan Kruck | Oct 1, 2020 | Latest News & Press Release, Weekly Digest
As Ferris Bueller famously stated: “Life moves pretty fast, if you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” And hasn’t life moved pretty fast since we announced in our Digest 28th August of our imminent participation in the World’s First...
by Ricky Verra | Sep 30, 2020 | Rarities, Weekly Digest
Despite the global restrictions we at David Feldman are continuing to receive excellent consignments for our October and December auctions, as well as being tasked with offering items for sale by private treaty. With our reputation for having sold more high-quality...
by Devlan Kruck | Sep 21, 2020 | Rarities, Weekly Digest
The best time of year to go on a Nile trip is apparently between October and April. The well informed reckon it’s not too hot then and given that the landscape of Egypt and surrounding areas, apart from the Nile Valley, is quite arid, the climate is similar to...
by Devlan Kruck | Sep 16, 2020 | Famous Philatelists, Weekly Digest
It is difficult to locate two more contrasting figures in the world of philately than the difference between our next Legendary Collector John N. Luff (1860 to 1938) and our last Arthur Hind. Whilst they inhabited the same golden philatelic era and even walked the...
