Newsletter February 2012

Online Auction Feldman Express Europe March 20, 2012 Our March Feldman Express online auction dedicated to Europe will feature notable sections of Italian and Italian States stamps and covers as well as a selection of “Ballon Monté” covers. This auction...

Hiroyuki Kanai (1925-2012)

One of the very few great philatelists who became a legend in his own lifetime, Mr Hiroyuki Kanai, has sadly left us. Despite the distance, the language and the culture differences between the country and city where he lived and worked and the subjects he championed,...

Newsletter January 2012

Online Auction Feldman Express Airmails & RomaniaJanuary 24, 2012 Our first Feldman Express online auction of 2012 will be feature notable sections of Airmails and Romania. This auction will be held on January 24, 2012 at 2:00 pm (CET). Browse lots and bid now...

Hong Kong gets stamp of approval

David Feldman gave his point of view to the South China Morning Post on January 16, 2012, on the philately development in Hong Kong. He says that stamps are less popular in HK, but it is still philatelic trading hub. More articles

Newsletter December 2011

Geneva December Auction Results Our last auction held in Geneva on December 6-11 was a great success and we are happy to invite you to look at the prices realized on our website. You may also make offers on the remaining unsold lots. NB Prices realized are printed...

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...

Unique Non-Variety Stamp of Cyprus

In 1921 through 1923, the current Cyprus definitives picturing King George V were issued on paper watermarked multiple crowns and script “CA.” De La Rue, the printers, had prepared for a Half Piastre value, but it was apparently not ordered, and perhaps...