Uruguay’s Montevideo Suns by L. N. Williams

This is the second extract in a series of articles about philatelic rarities taken from the Encyclopaedia of Rare and Famous Stamps, vol.1, pp.331-334, by L. N. Williams, published by David Feldman in 1992, with updates since its publication. When Mme Borchard swapped...

British Guiana’s Cottonreels by L. N. Williams

This is the first extract in a series of articles about philatelic rarities taken from the Encyclopaedia of Rare and Famous Stamps, vol.1, pp.13-23, by L. N. Williams, published by David Feldman in 1992, with updates since its publication. The crudest classic issue by...

The Suez Canal

In our May 19th-21st 2011 Auction series, we have the Samir Fikry Collection of Postal Services in the Suez Canal Zone. Including some of the rarest and most attractive items in Egyptian philately. The following is a brief history of this massive undertaking....