by Devlan Kruck | May 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...
by Devlan Kruck | Apr 15, 2021 | Famous Philatelists, Weekly Digest
It’s staggering how little has been written in philatelic terms about a man who collected stamps at the highest level and appeared upon stamps as well. King Carol II (1893 to 1953) is best remembered as the King of Romania between 1930 and 1940, who abdicated and...
by Devlan Kruck | Mar 17, 2021 | Famous Philatelists, Weekly Digest
If you cast your minds back a couple of pages you’ll recall our armour plated Alfred F. Lichtenstein, and our next legendary collector doesn’t just share his christian name with our sheild-bearer, he quite literally walked the same streets and pavements. Alfred H....
by Devlan Kruck | Feb 19, 2021 | Famous Philatelists, Weekly Digest
There is a strong argument for us to have slotted Charles Nissen (1880 to 1944), a British philatelist, author and stamp dealer, into these proceedings after Edward Denny Bacon (#17) and before Charles Lathrop Pack (#18), because Nissen won the Crawford Medal in 1922...
by Devlan Kruck | Jan 20, 2021 | Famous Philatelists, Weekly Digest
Having just given you two legends for the price of one, and confessed the error of my ways in sequencing this series, you might be glancing up at the name of our next legendary collector and thinking you’re in for another double-bubble. Well, you’d be wrong, because...
