par Marcus Orsi | Déc 1, 2020 | Actualités
The first day of our Autumn Auction Series opened with much active bidding for the sale of the Joe Youssefi collection of Persia. In these unprecedented COVID times, the majority of the action was through the more than 50 bidders connected online through our bespoke...
par Ricky Verra | Déc 1, 2020 | Actualités
David Feldman SA has been delighted to offer many showpiece items for sale privately in 2020, with several stunning 1840 Penny Blacks and Twopenny Blues of Great Britain as well as major rarities of Italian States. To star 2021, we have a further selection of...
par Devlan Kruck | Nov 25, 2020 | Actualités, Weekly Digest
Phileas Fogg might have circumnavigate the world in eighty days with the help of his trusty valet ‘Jean Passepartout’ in Jules Verne’s book, but David Feldman will wager you that we can go ‘Around the World in Five Days’ with the aid of a technological ‘passeport’ and...
par Devlan Kruck | Nov 25, 2020 | Articles
As if to reflect the landlocked region that boasts the world’s highest mountain, our ‘Overseas & Latin America’ auction catalogue has nestled amongst Asian a special section on ‘Tibet – Everest Expeditions’. And if you scroll through this attractively...
par Devlan Kruck | Nov 25, 2020 | Articles
Just a few sentimental weeks ago we were reminiscing about Sean Connery’s role in the Bond movie ‘Goldfinger’, where we marvelled at the seemingly mystical, gravitational pull there is towards Geneva, and certainly back then our Prussian Blue cover fitted our...
par Devlan Kruck | Nov 25, 2020 | collectionneurs célèbres, Weekly Digest
So, I’m going to backtrack here because having brought you up to date with Frederick J Melville’s contribution to philately during the early to mid 1900’s, I was about to introduce you to James L Lindsay, the Earl of Crawford, but you can’t do that unless you at least...
par Ricky Verra | Nov 12, 2020 | Actualités, Weekly Digest
The Basel Dove celebrated its 175th anniversary on July 1st this year. An exhibition in Basel planned to celebrate this momentous occasion in Swiss and indeed World philately earlier this month, but unfortunately had to be cancelled due to the developing Covid-19...
par Devlan Kruck | Nov 12, 2020 | Articles, collectionneurs célèbres, Weekly Digest
We’ve just spent a pleasant moment appreciating the philatelic landscape and the tree at the center of our horizon that represented our last legend Charles Lathrop Pack. Now we must turn our gaze inside the building from where we are standing and look around the...
par Devlan Kruck | Nov 11, 2020 | Rarities, Weekly Digest
There was something smelly going on in late January 1855, and it all seemed to originate from the foul stink permeating from the Crimea War. The Duke of Newcastle, Henry Pelham-Clinton, was the Secretary of War for the British Government from June 1854 but resigned...
par Marcus Orsi | Nov 10, 2020 | Auction Highlights, Weekly Digest
Our Winter auction series from November 30th to December 4th features a wealth of rare and beautiful Greek philatelic material in our All World and Rarities of the World catalogues. Read on to learn more about this fascinating area of philately. Browse the Greece Lots...
par Ricky Verra | Nov 5, 2020 | Articles, Actualités, Weekly Digest
Our auctions last week saw a range of rare and interesting material go under the hammer, with several hundred bidders competing over the course of the two days with their bids on the book, the internet, the phone and through their auction agents bidding live via video...
par Devlan Kruck | Nov 4, 2020 | collectionneurs célèbres, Weekly Digest
If you look out onto the philatelic landscape, our next legendary collector is the oak tree standing at the center of our vista, with a spectacular canopy of branches and foliage that reflects a pleasing hue upon all those that care to gaze and admire the view. ...
