by Devlan Kruck | Apr 20, 2022 | Famous Philatelists
There are many times in life that the saying, “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know” applies, but in the case of our next legendary collector Louise Boyd Dale (1913 to 1967) an American philatelist and the daughter of our shield-bearing legend Alfred F....
by Devlan Kruck | Mar 21, 2022 | Famous Philatelists
You don’t often write about the difference between a ‘flying spin*’ and a ‘flat spin**’ in a philatelic article, but Major Kenneth Macdonald Beaumont CBE DSO (1884 to 1965), who was a British Philatelist, could tell you the difference between these two ‘terms’ with...
by Devlan Kruck | Feb 14, 2022 | Famous Philatelists, Weekly Digest
Have you noticed that the Scottish are an extraordinarily gifted bunch? Despite being a relatively small nation they always seem to produce a disproportionate number of inventors. I mean let’s state the obvious, you’ve got the Scots to thank for telephones,...
by Devlan Kruck | Jan 10, 2022 | Famous Philatelists, Weekly Digest
If our last legendary collector had a philatelic personnel file as thick and hefty as an old oak tree, then our next legend is the polar opposite, not that his accomplishments were less weighty, because in fact they were substantially greater, but information...
by Devlan Kruck | Nov 29, 2021 | Famous Philatelists, Weekly Digest
A distinguishing feature of our philatelic legends is their expertise in stamps which has been gained through thousands of hours of study and application. This resulted in the formulation of world-class collections which were later sold, leaving behind an indelible...
by Devlan Kruck | Oct 26, 2021 | Famous Philatelists, Weekly Digest
There’s been a lot of news surrounding the great philatelic principality of British Guiana in recent months, and although there are sometimes lulls in such headlines from what is an iconic stamp producing British Colony, they are few and far between, not least because...
