da Devlan Kruck | Apr 20, 2022 | Famous Philatelists
There are many times in life that the saying, “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know” applies, but in the case of our next legendary collector Louise Boyd Dale (1913 to 1967) an American philatelist and the daughter of our shield-bearing legend Alfred F....
da Ricky Verra | Mar 23, 2022 | Articoli, Auction Highlights
Below is part 1 of our collectors’ guide to the stamps of the 1924 Paris Olympics, which features items from our previous and more importantly our upcoming auction series on June 13th-17th 2022. At the 1921 IOC Session in Lausanne, the French Olympic Committee ...
da Devlan Kruck | Mar 22, 2022 | Latest News & Press Release
If you cast your minds back to the 18th February the UK was being battered by Storm Eunice, causing widespread damage to property and disrupting travel by train, plane and automobile. The timing of this weather front could not have been worse for the already windswept...
da Ricky Verra | Mar 21, 2022 | Articoli, Auction Highlights
Below is an extract from the “Encyclopaedia of Rare and Famous Stamps” by L. N. Williams, vol.1, p.110-111, about the inverted overprint on the Goverment Parcels 1900 1s green & carmine. The example illustrated will feature in our upcoming June...
da Devlan Kruck | Mar 21, 2022 | Famous Philatelists
You don’t often write about the difference between a ‘flying spin*’ and a ‘flat spin**’ in a philatelic article, but Major Kenneth Macdonald Beaumont CBE DSO (1884 to 1965), who was a British Philatelist, could tell you the difference between these two ‘terms’ with...
da Devlan Kruck | Feb 17, 2022 | Latest News & Press Release, Weekly Digest
The headline news this month is the London 2022 International Stamp Show, being held at the Business Design Centre, Islington, N1 0QH; which gets underway on Saturday 19th, and continues until Saturday 26th February 2022. David Feldman International Auctioneers will...
da Devlan Kruck | Feb 17, 2022 | Rarities, Weekly Digest
There are a number of fascinating facts surrounding the Bermuda Postmaster Provisional 1861 Perot’s Second Issue. Firstly, they weren’t discovered until 1946, almost fifty years later than the discovery of Perot’s First Issue, and this is in a way testimony to their...
da Devlan Kruck | Feb 17, 2022 | Auction Highlights, Latest News & Press Release
The Italian Affair of Sān Mén Bay China, in 1899, might be an event some think insignificant and others may wish to forget, but if historians are correct then this brief diplomatic and military incident is actually a much more significant matter than it appears at...
da Devlan Kruck | Feb 14, 2022 | Famous Philatelists, Weekly Digest
Have you noticed that the Scottish are an extraordinarily gifted bunch? Despite being a relatively small nation they always seem to produce a disproportionate number of inventors. I mean let’s state the obvious, you’ve got the Scots to thank for telephones,...
da Estelle Leclere | Gen 14, 2022 | Latest News & Press Release
We have left behind a second year of the Covid pandemic, where travel restrictions continued to be a disruption in the relatively low-tech stamp business and our ability to engage with our very international client base. Nonetheless, in 2021 David Feldman S.A. managed...
da Ricky Verra | Gen 14, 2022 | Auction Highlights
Our next auction series is scheduled for June 13th-17th and is starting to build already, with dozens of properties already in-house and being lotted, described and estimated. One of the major properties already consigned are the extraordinary Valter Astolfi...
da Devlan Kruck | Gen 12, 2022 | Latest News & Press Release
It’s been an exciting month in the David Feldman office with the key headlines being that Marcus Orsi was appointed to the Vice Chairman position of the Philatelic Traders Society (PTS), Ricky Verra being recognised as a young and talented philatelist by the PTS in a...
