par Devlan Kruck | Nov 23, 2022 | Articles, collectionneurs célèbres
As any serious philatelist will tell you, patience is an essential virtue if you want to assemble a topclass collection. Of course copious amounts of money can shortcut the search, but in reality even wealth has to wait for those elusive items to come to market, and...
par Devlan Kruck | Oct 28, 2022 | Auction Highlights
In our upcoming Autumn Auction series 2022, being held from December 5th to 9th in Geneva, we have a catalogue which features unique material from the archive of Jean de Sperati called The “Art of Sperati” Collection, including 136 lots of never seen before...
par Devlan Kruck | Oct 27, 2022 | collectionneurs célèbres
Given the achievements in the world of philately of our next legendary collector, you might be forgiven for thinking his career must have been in forensic science or perhaps he was a top investigator. However, Dr Carl Walske (1922 to 2009) an American philatelist and...
par Devlan Kruck | Oct 26, 2022 | Rarities
It may at times occur to the philatelist that there is a rather romantic synergy between the magical shores of the Mauritius island and the mystical stamps of the “Post Office” issue. And one could equally draw parallels with the now more than rare native bird of that...
par Devlan Kruck | Sep 19, 2022 | Rarities
Here’s a stamp question for you. What makes a common and inexpensive Newfoundlands 1919 3c Brown Caribou stamp outrageously more valuable? If you answer; ‘the overprint’, then you are partly correct, in that the Postmaster J. A. Robinson of St. John’s...
