da Estelle Leclere | Nov 7, 2011 | Articoli
The second Danish stamp issued was the 2 R.B.S. (Rigsbankskilling) value, which first appeared on April 28, 1851, nearly a month after the 4 R.B.S. Its purpose was, at first, to pre-pay delivery of mail “within the ramparts” (i.e. within the city walls)...
da Estelle Leclere | Nov 7, 2011 | Articoli
British Africa has its fair share of immensely rare stamps: the primitive manuscript surcharges of Uganda and of the Oil Rivers high values, some of the Boer War local provisionals, the scarcer Madagascar “missionaries” all jump to mind. But the regularly...
da Estelle Leclere | Nov 7, 2011 | Articoli
In 1921 through 1923, the current Cyprus definitives picturing King George V were issued on paper watermarked multiple crowns and script “CA.” De La Rue, the printers, had prepared for a Half Piastre value, but it was apparently not ordered, and perhaps...
da Estelle Leclere | Set 21, 2011 | Articoli
The first issues of Europe during the Classic period started as a novelty, as news of the “Penny Black” and its financial success spread quickly, to a subject for debate and law-making (to define an adhesive stamp’s uses and context), to essays and...
da Estelle Leclere | Ago 9, 2011 | Articoli
A new way of collecting stamps as “topics” was born around the years of the Second World War. Previously there had been minor interests such as “Red Cross” or some historical event. Apart from “Airmails”, the sudden development of...
da Estelle Leclere | Lug 13, 2011 | Articoli
David Feldman is proud to be able to offer a part of the John Loaring Jr. collection of Olympic Memorabilia in our upcoming Feldman Express Online Auctions. Many collectors will be aware of John Loaring Jr. as an avid collector of Olympic Memorabilia – indeed his 1936...
