par Devlan Kruck | Nov 2, 2021 | Rarities, Weekly Digest
Our Rarity of the Month article takes a closer look at our latest Private Treaty offering, which is a collection of the 1854 India First Issue Half Anna Blue and One Anna Red. It is a specialised study attractively and knowledgeable mounted and written up on...
par Devlan Kruck | Oct 1, 2021 | Rarities, Weekly Digest
The British Guiana Cotton Reels are among the World’s rarest stamps and these Primitives are scarcely, if ever, described as ‘attractive’ but we take a closer look at one example which most definitely can be called a ‘beauty’. There was once a notable 17th century...
par Ricky Verra | Août 24, 2021 | Articles, Rarities
The Spanish-American War took place between April 21st and August 13th, 1898. The main issue was Cuban independence where revolts had been occurring for some years against the Spanish colonial rule. By the late 1890s, American public opinion swayed in support of the...
par Devlan Kruck | Juil 23, 2021 | Rarities, Weekly Digest
If there was such a phrase as a ‘philatelist’s philatelist’ then you’d expect the qualities the said stamp person would possess would be those that made them revered by other philatelists rather than with coin collectors. And throughout philatelic history there have...
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 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...
