par Ricky Verra | Août 12, 2014 | Actualités
The quietest day of the show so far. The highlight being yet more gifts from the Philakorea staff including the best gift I have ever received at a stamp exhibition. It wasn’t the tooth brush and tooth paste. Nor the Guide to Seoul. Not the thermos cup. Not even...
par Ricky Verra | Août 11, 2014 | Actualités
Today was the day that the awards for all the exhibits (except the Championship class) were revealed. There weren’t too many surprises. As always, there were collectors who were disappointed and those that were delighted. David was disappointed to see that the...
par Ricky Verra | Août 10, 2014 | Actualités
Saturday was similar to the day before but with a much greater number of visitors from the general public and no deafening music! So I was pinned behind the stand in case that all important customer came by. However the day was mostly spent trying to explain that we...
par Ricky Verra | Août 9, 2014 | Actualités
Not as busy as the first, Friday allowed myself and David to view the exhibitions we had wanted to see. There were no fewer than four excellent collections of Switzerland for us to study. Three of which were collections of Cantonals competing head-to-head in the...
par Ricky Verra | Août 8, 2014 | Actualités
After an 18 hour journey from Geneva, it was a relief to get through Immigration and Customs to find the Philakorea information stand at Seoul Incheon airport. Their bright orange uniforms brightening up an otherwise miserable looking evening outside. With their...
par Ricky Verra | Juil 14, 2014 | Actualités
On Friday 27th June 2014, we offered the famous collection of British Guiana from the late John E. du Pont. And at 3pm CET, little did we know that philatelic history was in the making. The day began with the auction of one of the best collections of classic Tasmania...
