by Devlan Kruck | Oct 21, 2020 | Famous Philatelists, Weekly Digest
Now is an opportune moment to introduce our next legendary collector, because he helped several of the philatelists we have already featured to establish their collections as some of the world’s greatest ever stamp collections. Sir Edward Denny Bacon (1860 to 1938)...
by Devlan Kruck | Oct 2, 2020 | Famous Philatelists, Weekly Digest
We need to write a job description for a teacher at the School of Philately, and the vacancy is for a Head of department. It will go along the lines of: A Philatelic Science Head Teacher to provide direction on syllabus, give instruction and guidance to students so...
by Devlan Kruck | Sep 16, 2020 | Famous Philatelists, Weekly Digest
It is difficult to locate two more contrasting figures in the world of philately than the difference between our next Legendary Collector John N. Luff (1860 to 1938) and our last Arthur Hind. Whilst they inhabited the same golden philatelic era and even walked the...
by Devlan Kruck | Sep 2, 2020 | Famous Philatelists, Weekly Digest
If our last legendary collector was known for his genial, likable personality, and his benevolent spirit prompted him to be affectionately known as ‘Uncle Henry’, then our next heavyweight on the philatelic stage; Arthur Hind (1856–1933), a English textile...
by Devlan Kruck | Aug 17, 2020 | Famous Philatelists, Weekly Digest
So we’ve just painted a picture of the King at the head of the Roll of Distinguished Philatelist, and admired the landscape in which George V inhabited, with those majestic royal blue albums he so skillfully sculpted. And the next portrait we must sketch out is a man...
