par Devlan Kruck | Jan 22, 2021 | Actualités, Rarities, Weekly Digest
Chapter One 1944 Stanisławów Ghetto – German occupied Poland This is an account of the events immediately following the Polish Resistance Army’s ‘Operation Tempest’ – a battle which defeated the German SS occupying Stanisławów Ghetto. There were...
par Devlan Kruck | Jan 20, 2021 | collectionneurs célèbres, 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...
par Devlan Kruck | Déc 10, 2020 | Actualités, Weekly Digest
You’ll recall Phileas Fogg and his trusty valet Jean Passepartout helped us illustrate the epic auction journey we were about to embark upon last week, which included nine catalogues, and propelled us on a wager ‘Around the World in Five Days’. The original 1873 novel...
par Devlan Kruck | Déc 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...
par Devlan Kruck | Déc 9, 2020 | collectionneurs célèbres, 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...
