by Devlan Kruck | Jan 30, 2023 | Famous Philatelists
Our next legendary collector was once described as “the most intense student of philately”. The history books and past auction catalogues, which feature material once held in his famous collection, do not sum up fully his achievements on the international philatelic...
by Devlan Kruck | Nov 23, 2022 | Articles, Famous Philatelists
As any serious philatelist will tell you, patience is an essential virtue if you want to assemble a topclass collection. Of course copious amounts of money can shortcut the search, but in reality even wealth has to wait for those elusive items to come to market, and...
by Devlan Kruck | Oct 27, 2022 | Famous Philatelists
Given the achievements in the world of philately of our next legendary collector, you might be forgiven for thinking his career must have been in forensic science or perhaps he was a top investigator. However, Dr Carl Walske (1922 to 2009) an American philatelist and...
by Devlan Kruck | Sep 19, 2022 | Famous Philatelists
Whilst the legendary collector series has endeavoured to be reasonably chronological, with the odd rewind and fastforward, there are special moments in time when circumstances require that the normal pattern of things should halt to honour the passing of a great....
by Devlan Kruck | Jun 27, 2022 | Famous Philatelists
Our next instalment of philatelic greatness is a man whose collection was as monumental as many of the true stamp legends we have already highlighted, such as Ferrary, Hind and Caspary. Josiah K Lilly Jnr (1893 to 1966), an American Philatelist, amassed a collection...
by Devlan Kruck | May 24, 2022 | Famous Philatelists
Now by rights our next legendary collector should make his entrance later in the show, because he was with us for much of the last century and part of this and we’ve only just got to the late 60’s. However, for a very important reason we must meet John R Boker Jnr...
