par Devlan Kruck | Août 3, 2020 | Rarities, Weekly Digest
‘Provenance’ has a practical application in the world of philately. It provides a chronology of the ownership for rare and valuable items, which is a powerful tool in establishing the authenticity of material being presented for exhibition or for sale. And, there’s...
par admin | Juil 29, 2020 | Actualités
David Feldman SA is pleased to announce the appointment of Pierre Wertheimer to its team of international agents. Born in Paris, Pierre began his philatelic career at the age of 13 at the “Carré Marigny”, the famous stamp market in Paris. At the age of...
par Tony Banwell | Juil 28, 2020 | Rarities, Weekly Digest
THE RE-DISCOVERY OF THE LEGENDARY AND UNIQUE 1915 $2 HALL OF CLASSICS BLOCK OF FOUR WITH CENTRE INVERTED After lying for decades unseen, one of the foremost Chinese, and indeed world, rarities has surfaced. I last had the privilege of seeing this icon of philately...
par Devlan Kruck | Juil 24, 2020 | collectionneurs célèbres, Weekly Digest
If you do your research there are quite a few doctors who clearly had a love for philately and contributed much to the hobby. And if you’ve been paying attention to these articles you’ll recall we introduced a Doctor not so long ago. Legend number 5...
par admin | Juil 22, 2020 | Actualités
David Feldman SA is pleased to announce the appointment of Devlan Kruck to its team of international agents. Devlan will take up the role of Regional Representative UK supporting our teams expansion and development within the UK market, as well as providing assistance...
par Devlan Kruck | Juil 16, 2020 | Rarities, Weekly Digest
This will probably surprise you, but this article isn’t going to tell you how you can help Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders) in its fight against Covid-19. We have a fine brochure for that exact purpose. But in true philatelic terms what I am going to...
par David Feldman RDP(I), FRPSL | Juil 15, 2020 | Weekly Digest
It was 1975 and I had joined the team of Robson Lowe International to assist with their auctions. I still maintained my independent dealing business aside and was to leave “RL” 11 months later, but the auction experience was enormously rewarding, especially that first...
par Devlan Kruck | Juil 15, 2020 | Rarities, Weekly Digest
So we’re in Paris and feeling peckish. Don’t worry, there’s no better place on the planet than being in France, and even better the capital if you’re in need of some top nosh, or even posh grub. Because as we all know France is synonymous with fine dining...
par Devlan Kruck | Juil 15, 2020 | collectionneurs célèbres, Weekly Digest
It would be forgivable to skip many collecting heavyweights because of the achievements of others prior, and maybe those since, but there is no excuse for overlooking Sir William Avery (1854 – 1908), a British philatelist who was entered on the Roll of Distinguished...
par Devlan Kruck | Juil 3, 2020 | Auction Highlights, Weekly Digest
Results really do matter in life. And it doesn’t matter if we’re talking sport, elections, exams, investments, or even the Lotto, the numbers count. Auction results are no different, so when you see that our most recent Mauritius auction results achieved 95% of lots...
par Devlan Kruck | Juil 3, 2020 | Weekly Digest
Stop! Hold the newspaper! Here is some breaking news for you. There are valuable philatelic discoveries that are hidden in cupboards in our homes. And we’re not talking about small sums of cash. No. How would you react if we told you it was possible to find a whopping...
par Devlan Kruck | Juil 2, 2020 | collectionneurs célèbres, Weekly Digest
It’s philatelic poetry that Edward ‘Stanley’ Gibbons was born in June 1840, the same year and only one month after the Penny Black came into existence. You can’t escape the impact Stanley Gibbons had on the world of philately, and again it...
