by Devlan Kruck | Nov 23, 2022 | Articles, Famous Philatelists
As any serious philatelist will tell you, patience is an essential virtue if you want to assemble a topclass collection. Of course copious amounts of money can shortcut the search, but in reality even wealth has to wait for those elusive items to come to market, and...
by Devlan Kruck | Jun 27, 2022 | Famous Philatelists
Our next instalment of philatelic greatness is a man whose collection was as monumental as many of the true stamp legends we have already highlighted, such as Ferrary, Hind and Caspary. Josiah K Lilly Jnr (1893 to 1966), an American Philatelist, amassed a collection...
by Devlan Kruck | May 24, 2022 | Famous Philatelists
Now by rights our next legendary collector should make his entrance later in the show, because he was with us for much of the last century and part of this and we’ve only just got to the late 60’s. However, for a very important reason we must meet John R Boker Jnr...
by 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....
by 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,...
