by Devlan Kruck | Apr 21, 2020 | Famous Philatelists, Weekly Digest
Etymology is a great word! In fact, so is ‘derivation’. Etymology being the account of how a particular word came about – the derivation of a word. Quite literally the birth of a word. The reason for mentioning this is that I’ve been musing on...
by admin | Jan 29, 2020 | Famous Philatelists
When did you start collecting and why? I was born 1941 in Sweden and I started collecting when I was 5 years old. At first, I was more interested in maps and cartography. My attraction to stamps came naturally, almost at the same time. When I was 12 years old, I...
by Devlan Kruck | Aug 6, 2019 | Famous Philatelists
When did you start collecting and why? When I was 8 years old I started a kid’s worldwide stamp collection accumulating stamps at Stamp Collecting Corner each Saturday with my $1.00 a week allowance. By high school I had stopped collecting and did not take up...
by Estelle Leclere | May 20, 2019 | Famous Philatelists
We are pleased to present to you in our June 4-7, 2019 auction in Geneva, Switzerland, the Gunnar Loshamn Large Gold Medal collection of Danish West Indies. The geographical situation of these islands was ideal for trade and postal services in the Caribbean area....
