par Devlan Kruck | Sep 2, 2020 | collectionneurs célèbres, Weekly Digest
If our last legendary collector was known for his genial, likable personality, and his benevolent spirit prompted him to be affectionately known as ‘Uncle Henry’, then our next heavyweight on the philatelic stage; Arthur Hind (1856–1933), a English textile...
par Devlan Kruck | Août 24, 2020 | Actualités, Weekly Digest
In 1989 an English gentleman working ironically in Switzerland, almost in David Feldman’s backyard, developed the ‘World Wide Web’, and at that time there were no public users of the system we call today ‘the web’. It was a humble beginning. Just one person connecting...
par Devlan Kruck | Août 19, 2020 | Rarities, Weekly Digest
If you’re into wrestling then here’s an ‘Inverted brainbuster’* for you. The world’s most valuable stamp is the ‘1856’ British Guiana One-Cent Magenta and, as you probably know, it was previously owed by the American philanthropist John duPont from 1980, before...
par Devlan Kruck | Août 17, 2020 | collectionneurs célèbres, Weekly Digest
So we’ve just painted a picture of the King at the head of the Roll of Distinguished Philatelist, and admired the landscape in which George V inhabited, with those majestic royal blue albums he so skillfully sculpted. And the next portrait we must sketch out is a man...
par Devlan Kruck | Août 5, 2020 | collectionneurs célèbres, Weekly Digest
Ok, so far we’ve got eleven legendary collectors, including a duke, a lord and even a prince, most of the worlds greatest collections and huge sums of cash splashed all over the world. What’s missing? Two things. The first is the twelfth person. As you...
