by Devlan Kruck | Dec 9, 2020 | Rarities, Weekly Digest
Mongolia and Genghis Khan are intrinsically intertwined. Genghis Khan invokes the memory of the world’s largest ever Empire, along with the obvious Mongol invasions and conquerings, which sadly conjures up visions of large-scale massacres of civilian populations...
by Devlan Kruck | Dec 9, 2020 | Famous Philatelists, Weekly Digest
When organising this philatelic collection of legends there are occasions when one or two of the ‘books’ get shuffled out of sequence. Our incumbent John Walter Scott a point in case, when I’d confessed that it was my original intention to flick straight...
by Ricky Verra | Dec 9, 2020 | Articles, Latest News & Press Release, Weekly Digest
David Feldman SA has been delighted to offer many showpiece items for sale privately in 2020, with several stunning 1840 Penny Blacks and Twopenny Blues of Great Britain as well as major rarities of Italian States. To finish the year, we have a further selection of...
by Devlan Kruck | Nov 25, 2020 | Latest News & Press Release, Weekly Digest
Phileas Fogg might have circumnavigate the world in eighty days with the help of his trusty valet ‘Jean Passepartout’ in Jules Verne’s book, but David Feldman will wager you that we can go ‘Around the World in Five Days’ with the aid of a technological ‘passeport’ and...
by Devlan Kruck | Nov 25, 2020 | Famous Philatelists, Weekly Digest
So, I’m going to backtrack here because having brought you up to date with Frederick J Melville’s contribution to philately during the early to mid 1900’s, I was about to introduce you to James L Lindsay, the Earl of Crawford, but you can’t do that unless you at least...
by Ricky Verra | Nov 12, 2020 | Latest News & Press Release, Weekly Digest
The Basel Dove celebrated its 175th anniversary on July 1st this year. An exhibition in Basel planned to celebrate this momentous occasion in Swiss and indeed World philately earlier this month, but unfortunately had to be cancelled due to the developing Covid-19...
