by admin | Jul 22, 2020 | Latest News & Press Release
David Feldman SA is pleased to announce the appointment of Devlan Kruck to its team of international agents. Devlan will take up the role of Regional Representative UK supporting our teams expansion and development within the UK market, as well as providing assistance...
by Devlan Kruck | Jul 16, 2020 | Rarities, Weekly Digest
This will probably surprise you, but this article isn’t going to tell you how you can help Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders) in its fight against Covid-19. We have a fine brochure for that exact purpose. But in true philatelic terms what I am going to...
by David Feldman RDP(I), FRPSL | Jul 15, 2020 | Weekly Digest
It was 1975 and I had joined the team of Robson Lowe International to assist with their auctions. I still maintained my independent dealing business aside and was to leave “RL” 11 months later, but the auction experience was enormously rewarding, especially that first...
by Devlan Kruck | Jul 15, 2020 | Rarities, Weekly Digest
So we’re in Paris and feeling peckish. Don’t worry, there’s no better place on the planet than being in France, and even better the capital if you’re in need of some top nosh, or even posh grub. Because as we all know France is synonymous with fine dining...
by Devlan Kruck | Jul 15, 2020 | Famous Philatelists, Weekly Digest
It would be forgivable to skip many collecting heavyweights because of the achievements of others prior, and maybe those since, but there is no excuse for overlooking Sir William Avery (1854 – 1908), a British philatelist who was entered on the Roll of Distinguished...
by Devlan Kruck | Jul 3, 2020 | Auction Highlights, Weekly Digest
Results really do matter in life. And it doesn’t matter if we’re talking sport, elections, exams, investments, or even the Lotto, the numbers count. Auction results are no different, so when you see that our most recent Mauritius auction results achieved 95% of lots...
by Devlan Kruck | Jul 3, 2020 | Weekly Digest
Stop! Hold the newspaper! Here is some breaking news for you. There are valuable philatelic discoveries that are hidden in cupboards in our homes. And we’re not talking about small sums of cash. No. How would you react if we told you it was possible to find a whopping...
by Devlan Kruck | Jul 2, 2020 | Famous Philatelists, Weekly Digest
It’s philatelic poetry that Edward ‘Stanley’ Gibbons was born in June 1840, the same year and only one month after the Penny Black came into existence. You can’t escape the impact Stanley Gibbons had on the world of philately, and again it...
by Devlan Kruck | Jun 18, 2020 | Rarities, Weekly Digest
Our upcoming auction of the “Tatiana” collection of Mauritius on June 30th 2020 has inspired Devlan Kruck, philatelic journalist and DF UK Regional Representative, to write an article about one of our more recent success stories. The Dodo was only ever...
by Devlan Kruck | Jun 18, 2020 | Latest News & Press Release, Weekly Digest
It appears that infection rates of Coronavirus are settling down in most countries around the world, and the dust certainly seems to be settling on people and business after three months of restrictions. Social and commercial life, as we know it, has been on ‘pause’...
by Estelle Leclere | Jun 18, 2020 | Latest News & Press Release
We are delighted to announce that a new agent has just joined the David Feldman’s team covering the United States and the Canada. Bill Schultz, born in Washington D.C., now residing in West Chester PA USA. He has been a philatelist and postal historian for over...
by Ricky Verra | Jun 18, 2020 | Auction Highlights, Weekly Digest
For this week’s digest we wanted to highlight some of the items and sections in our upcoming June 30th-July 2nd auction series that we haven’t touched on so far. In order to keep it interesting I thought I would highlight examples of different types of...