par Marcus Orsi | Sep 22, 2022 | Auction Highlights
Our upcoming auction series which will be held on the first week of December, brings the fifth sale in a series of Princely States material being offered from the Dan Walker Collection. More than two hundred lots will be available on Monday 5th of December...
par Devlan Kruck | Sep 19, 2022 | Rarities
Here’s a stamp question for you. What makes a common and inexpensive Newfoundlands 1919 3c Brown Caribou stamp outrageously more valuable? If you answer; ‘the overprint’, then you are partly correct, in that the Postmaster J. A. Robinson of St. John’s...
par Devlan Kruck | Sep 19, 2022 | collectionneurs célèbres
Whilst the legendary collector series has endeavoured to be reasonably chronological, with the odd rewind and fastforward, there are special moments in time when circumstances require that the normal pattern of things should halt to honour the passing of a great....
par Devlan Kruck | Juin 27, 2022 | collectionneurs célèbres
Our next instalment of philatelic greatness is a man whose collection was as monumental as many of the true stamp legends we have already highlighted, such as Ferrary, Hind and Caspary. Josiah K Lilly Jnr (1893 to 1966), an American Philatelist, amassed a collection...
par Devlan Kruck | Juin 27, 2022 | Actualités
The David Feldman SA Spring Auction Series went ahead 13-17th June in temperatures of over 30° in Geneva throughout the week, and the highlights, or hot-lights, were that we auctioned more than 5000 lots for over 3 millions in sales, with almost 70% of our Overseas...
par Devlan Kruck | Juin 27, 2022 | Auction Highlights, Actualités
Our Autumn Auction series 2022 will be held between December 5th to 9th in Geneva and we are particularly excited to announce the availability of material in this upcoming auction from The Hausman Collection of the World which will be a single-owner featured...
par Devlan Kruck | Juin 27, 2022 | Rarities
It might surprise a few of you to know that in the world of US philately some of the most popular stamps are from the 1901 Pan-American Exposition pictorial issue. These bi-colour stamps of six values were produced to commemorate a world fair held at Buffalo, New...
par Eva Mondehard | Juin 14, 2022 | Auction Highlights
Genuine old time collections of the world with mint and used classic material in vintage albums, do not come to the auction market very often. In fact, they are extraordinarily rare, as any dealer, auctioneer or even experienced collector will verify. The reality is...
par Devlan Kruck | Juin 2, 2022 | Auction Highlights
If you’re going to cut a Empire Laureate 80c postal adhesive into four equal parts and be left with one of those parts I guess it’s better to have the top left-hand corner as the piece you have on a cover. That way you have the forehead and part of the profile, an eye...
par admin | Juin 2, 2022 | Actualités
Si vous allez couper un timbre Empire Lauré 80 centimes en quatre parties égales et que vous vous retrouvez avec l’une de ces parties, je dirai qu’il est préférable d’avoir le coin supérieur gauche sur enveloppe. De cette façon, vous avez le front et...
par Devlan Kruck | Mai 27, 2022 | Auction Highlights, Rarities
One of the curious things about philately is the fascination with errors. Or is it the fascination with how the errors occurred? Probably both, but whatever the reasons the featured stamp, which is the South Australia 1868 “3 PENCE” on 4d deep ultramarine with the...
par Devlan Kruck | Mai 26, 2022 | Auction Highlights
In the world of philately it can sometimes be easy to take for granted the wonderful array of stamps we have to study and enjoy. Often we appreciate the elegance and rarity of a particular set of stamps but perhaps don’t really know how they came about or their...
