par Devlan Kruck | Juin 28, 2021 | Actualités
Back in that glimmering fourth month of the Gregorian calendar, April, we called your attention to the approaching auction of Russia Zemstvo issues, which was a mere fragment, albeit a sumptuous anthology, of a wide-ranging offering of Russia that included The...
par Devlan Kruck | Juin 28, 2021 | Auction Highlights, Rarities
In the northeastern Shandong province of the People’s Republic of China there is a coastal city called Yantai, which during the Qing dynasty (1644 to 1912) was known as Chefoo. What’s really fascinating about this fishing seaport is that back in the 1870s, when...
par Estelle Leclere | Juin 28, 2021 | Actualités
La Maison Feldman renforce ses équipes avec la nomination de Jean-Jacques Tillard comme représentant international. Expert, membre de l’Académie Européenne de Philatélie, du Club de Monte-Carlo et de nombreuses autres sociétés réputées à travers le monde,...
par Devlan Kruck | Juin 28, 2021 | collectionneurs célèbres
It’s a common misconception that philately is a male dominated activity. Indeed, the history books tell us a different story, because there have been females collecting stamps since its inception back in the late 1850s, and the philatelic records illustrate there are...
par Devlan Kruck | Juin 22, 2021 | Actualités
There was an unmistakable steely determination around the David Feldman SA auction team at the start of last week and during the six days of almost unrelenting auction activity starting on Monday morning, which saw nearly 3900 lots sold and almost 5 million CHF in...
par Devlan Kruck | Juin 16, 2021 | Articles
It will come as no surprise to those in the philatelic world that some aspects of Chinese philately have a bit of a reputation for being highly collectable. As a consequence there is often a bit of a tussle, to say the least, at auctions for the very prized examples...
par Devlan Kruck | Juin 15, 2021 | Articles
In an auction week where there are six auction catalogues, covering every corner of the planet, and over 6000 lots; the auction proceedings, fittingly, began on Monday with the J. Chalhoub, part 4, Collection of Egypt and of the 275 lots the stand-out results were lot...
par Estelle Leclere | Juin 7, 2021 | Articles, Articles, Histoire de Timbres
Au lot 50591 de la vente aux enchères de France et colonies françaises du 16 juin 2021, la maison David Feldman propose à la vente intacte une fascinante collection. Le philatéliste à l’origine de cette collection par l’intermédiaire de cet article propose de...
par Devlan Kruck | Mai 25, 2021 | Actualités, Weekly Digest
There’s been a bit of a technological revolution going on over the last year. Commercial and domestic life adapting to restrictions has meant the acceleration of certain internet technologies and businesses. Of course there have been casualties, many of them on the...
par Devlan Kruck | Mai 24, 2021 | Rarities, Weekly Digest
No philatelists ever wants to draw a connection between bird excrement and a rare 1858 Peru cover franked with a ‘Medio Peso’ error of colour, estimated at 20-30’000 EUR (lot 61683). However, the fact is without ‘guano’ which is the accumulated waste from seabirds and...
par Devlan Kruck | Mai 22, 2021 | Auction Highlights, Weekly Digest
To many people, a tree is a tree. However, if you’re a botanist then there is a bit more to it than that. For starters, trees are perennial plants with a trunk, branches and leaves and there are around 100,000 different species, and even if you select just one of...
par Devlan Kruck | Mai 20, 2021 | collectionneurs célèbres, Weekly Digest
So we’ve rescued a fellow philatelist from exile and put to rights the dearth of stamp related matter on King Carol II, and now find ourselves featuring a man that there is an abundant sufficiency of material written. The trick here will be to sort the wheat from the...
