par Devlan Kruck | Oct 2, 2020 | collectionneurs célèbres, Weekly Digest
We need to write a job description for a teacher at the School of Philately, and the vacancy is for a Head of department. It will go along the lines of: A Philatelic Science Head Teacher to provide direction on syllabus, give instruction and guidance to students so...
par Devlan Kruck | Oct 1, 2020 | Actualités, Weekly Digest
As Ferris Bueller famously stated: “Life moves pretty fast, if you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” And hasn’t life moved pretty fast since we announced in our Digest 28th August of our imminent participation in the World’s First...
par Devlan Kruck | Sep 21, 2020 | Rarities, Weekly Digest
The best time of year to go on a Nile trip is apparently between October and April. The well informed reckon it’s not too hot then and given that the landscape of Egypt and surrounding areas, apart from the Nile Valley, is quite arid, the climate is similar to...
par Devlan Kruck | Sep 16, 2020 | collectionneurs célèbres, Weekly Digest
It is difficult to locate two more contrasting figures in the world of philately than the difference between our next Legendary Collector John N. Luff (1860 to 1938) and our last Arthur Hind. Whilst they inhabited the same golden philatelic era and even walked the...
par Devlan Kruck | Sep 4, 2020 | Rarities, Weekly Digest
The trouble with ‘perspective’ is that you tend to evaluate events, such as the 1906 Olympic Games (later uncredited by the IOC), through the eye of your own understanding. That approach, as I’ve discovered, is destined to produce false starts, sprinting in the wrong...
