by Ricky Verra | Mar 23, 2022 | Articles, Auction Highlights
Below is part 1 of our collectors’ guide to the stamps of the 1924 Paris Olympics, which features items from our previous and more importantly our upcoming auction series on June 13th-17th 2022. At the 1921 IOC Session in Lausanne, the French Olympic Committee ...
by Ricky Verra | Mar 21, 2022 | Articles, Auction Highlights
Below is an extract from the “Encyclopaedia of Rare and Famous Stamps” by L. N. Williams, vol.1, p.110-111, about the inverted overprint on the Goverment Parcels 1900 1s green & carmine. The example illustrated will feature in our upcoming June...
by Devlan Kruck | Feb 17, 2022 | Auction Highlights, Latest News & Press Release
The Italian Affair of Sān Mén Bay China, in 1899, might be an event some think insignificant and others may wish to forget, but if historians are correct then this brief diplomatic and military incident is actually a much more significant matter than it appears at...
by Ricky Verra | Jan 14, 2022 | Auction Highlights
Our next auction series is scheduled for June 13th-17th and is starting to build already, with dozens of properties already in-house and being lotted, described and estimated. One of the major properties already consigned are the extraordinary Valter Astolfi...
by Devlan Kruck | Oct 28, 2021 | Auction Highlights, Weekly Digest
As the stardust settles on another fairytale auction of celebrated British Guiana material, there is always a tendency to shine the spotlight solely upon the superstar material which perhaps breached the upper five figure and even the six figure price barrier. And for...
by Devlan Kruck | Oct 5, 2021 | Auction Highlights, Weekly Digest
The importance of the British Guiana “Cotton Reels” to the philately of the British Empire, and indeed to the world of rarities, can not be overestimated. These Primitive stamps were produced in four values – 2c, 4c, 8c and 12c – during 1850 to 1851 and...
