da Devlan Kruck | Ott 22, 2020 | Famous Philatelists
It’s not often you can say here’s a philatelist you’d trust with your life, and not only that this gentleman brings a lifetime of heroics and some Arab spice to the affair. Oh, and if that isn’t enough, then he also enables us to slot into our postage portrayals three...
da Devlan Kruck | Ott 22, 2020 | Rarities, Weekly Digest
Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I (1830 to 1916) was also the King of Hungary, Croatia, and Bohemia, and monarch of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He’s a fascinating fellow if you care to dig around in the history files. Not least because quite a few of his closest and...
da Devlan Kruck | Ott 21, 2020 | Auction Highlights
Right, if we are going to do justice to our Olympic auction, let’s start at the very beginning, which is not to be confused with the lyrics from ‘The Sound of Music’, ‘Do-re-mi’, although there’s a ‘long way to run’ given the Olympics are synonymous with the Marathon...
da Devlan Kruck | Ott 21, 2020 | Famous Philatelists, Weekly Digest
Now is an opportune moment to introduce our next legendary collector, because he helped several of the philatelists we have already featured to establish their collections as some of the world’s greatest ever stamp collections. Sir Edward Denny Bacon (1860 to 1938)...
da Devlan Kruck | Ott 6, 2020 | Rarities, Weekly Digest
Just imagine you’ve received an envelope with a letter inside that would incriminate you and the sender. What would you do? Would you burn it? That seems the most sensible action to take. Burn it and the incriminating cover is gone forever. No need to worry anymore....
