da Devlan Kruck | Giu 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...
da Devlan Kruck | Giu 28, 2021 | Famous Philatelists
It’s a common misconception that philately is a male dominated activity. Indeed, the history books tell us a different story, because there have been females collecting stamps since its inception back in the late 1850s, and the philatelic records illustrate there are...
da Devlan Kruck | Giu 22, 2021 | Latest News & Press Release
There was an unmistakable steely determination around the David Feldman SA auction team at the start of last week and during the six days of almost unrelenting auction activity starting on Monday morning, which saw nearly 3900 lots sold and almost 5 million CHF in...
da Devlan Kruck | Giu 16, 2021 | Articoli
It will come as no surprise to those in the philatelic world that some aspects of Chinese philately have a bit of a reputation for being highly collectable. As a consequence there is often a bit of a tussle, to say the least, at auctions for the very prized examples...
da Devlan Kruck | Giu 15, 2021 | Articoli
In an auction week where there are six auction catalogues, covering every corner of the planet, and over 6000 lots; the auction proceedings, fittingly, began on Monday with the J. Chalhoub, part 4, Collection of Egypt and of the 275 lots the stand-out results were lot...
da Devlan Kruck | Mag 25, 2021 | Latest News & Press Release, Weekly Digest
There’s been a bit of a technological revolution going on over the last year. Commercial and domestic life adapting to restrictions has meant the acceleration of certain internet technologies and businesses. Of course there have been casualties, many of them on the...
da Devlan Kruck | Mag 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...
da Devlan Kruck | Mag 22, 2021 | Auction Highlights, Weekly Digest
To many people, a tree is a tree. However, if you’re a botanist then there is a bit more to it than that. For starters, trees are perennial plants with a trunk, branches and leaves and there are around 100,000 different species, and even if you select just one of...
da Devlan Kruck | Mag 20, 2021 | Famous Philatelists, Weekly Digest
So we’ve rescued a fellow philatelist from exile and put to rights the dearth of stamp related matter on King Carol II, and now find ourselves featuring a man that there is an abundant sufficiency of material written. The trick here will be to sort the wheat from the...
da Devlan Kruck | Apr 20, 2021 | Articoli, Latest News & Press Release
Unlike the world news we in the philatelic realm can swerve the international cyberattack squabble and get our faces into something far more tangible regarding Russia this month and that’s the news we have The “Nikolai” Collection of Romanov Essays and Proofs to...
da Devlan Kruck | Apr 19, 2021 | Auction Highlights, Weekly Digest
There are many fascinating aspects regarding the Russian Zemstvo stamps. The first and defining one is that they take their name from the Russian institution of local government which went into effect during 1864 and effectively means they were a stamp used for local...
da Devlan Kruck | Apr 18, 2021 | Rarities, Weekly Digest
In the world of philosophy and indeed specifically science, they talk about ‘objective reality’. It apparently means that something is actual, or it exists independent of the mind. So in simple terms an objective reality is a universal truth that can be demonstrated...
