by admin | Jul 21, 2021 | Latest News & Press Release, Weekly Digest
David Feldman International Auctioneers has strengthened its team with the appointment of Jean-Jacques Tillard as one of our international representatives. Jean-Jacques is an expert, member of the European Academy of Philately, the Monte Carlo Club and many other...
by Devlan Kruck | May 25, 2021 | Latest News & Press Release, Weekly Digest
There’s been a bit of a technological revolution going on over the last year. Commercial and domestic life adapting to restrictions has meant the acceleration of certain internet technologies and businesses. Of course there have been casualties, many of them on the...
by Devlan Kruck | May 24, 2021 | Rarities, Weekly Digest
No philatelists ever wants to draw a connection between bird excrement and a rare 1858 Peru cover franked with a ‘Medio Peso’ error of colour, estimated at 20-30’000 EUR (lot 61683). However, the fact is without ‘guano’ which is the accumulated waste from seabirds and...
by Devlan Kruck | May 22, 2021 | Auction Highlights, Weekly Digest
To many people, a tree is a tree. However, if you’re a botanist then there is a bit more to it than that. For starters, trees are perennial plants with a trunk, branches and leaves and there are around 100,000 different species, and even if you select just one of...
by Devlan Kruck | May 20, 2021 | Famous Philatelists, Weekly Digest
So we’ve rescued a fellow philatelist from exile and put to rights the dearth of stamp related matter on King Carol II, and now find ourselves featuring a man that there is an abundant sufficiency of material written. The trick here will be to sort the wheat from the...
by Devlan Kruck | Apr 19, 2021 | Auction Highlights, Weekly Digest
There are many fascinating aspects regarding the Russian Zemstvo stamps. The first and defining one is that they take their name from the Russian institution of local government which went into effect during 1864 and effectively means they were a stamp used for local...
