by Devlan Kruck | Mar 17, 2021 | Famous Philatelists, Weekly Digest
If you cast your minds back a couple of pages you’ll recall our armour plated Alfred F. Lichtenstein, and our next legendary collector doesn’t just share his christian name with our sheild-bearer, he quite literally walked the same streets and pavements. Alfred H....
by Devlan Kruck | Feb 19, 2021 | Famous Philatelists, Weekly Digest
There is a strong argument for us to have slotted Charles Nissen (1880 to 1944), a British philatelist, author and stamp dealer, into these proceedings after Edward Denny Bacon (#17) and before Charles Lathrop Pack (#18), because Nissen won the Crawford Medal in 1922...
by Devlan Kruck | Jan 20, 2021 | Famous Philatelists, Weekly Digest
Having just given you two legends for the price of one, and confessed the error of my ways in sequencing this series, you might be glancing up at the name of our next legendary collector and thinking you’re in for another double-bubble. Well, you’d be wrong, because...
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 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 Devlan Kruck | Nov 12, 2020 | Articles, Famous Philatelists, Weekly Digest
We’ve just spent a pleasant moment appreciating the philatelic landscape and the tree at the center of our horizon that represented our last legend Charles Lathrop Pack. Now we must turn our gaze inside the building from where we are standing and look around the...
