by Marina Poncioni | Apr 12, 2019 | Auction Highlights
We are proud to offer in our June Auction Series the “Alba” collection of Football. It has been formed by the vendor over 60 years, and features stamps, covers, postcards, autographs and memorabilia in 4 sections; football at the Olympics, World Cup, European...
by Ricky Verra | May 13, 2018 | Articles
Our June 11th-15th 2018 auction series will feature a section of Olympic memorabilia and stamps. One of the highlights of this section already consigned to us is a group of very rare 1936 Berlin Official Badges, including the extremely rare “Dr. Diem”...
by Ricky Verra | Jan 14, 2015 | Articles
If you read my blog post about the Official medals and badges of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, you should have noticed that some of the important information came directly from the Official Report produced by the German government. So this week I thought I would talk a...
by Ricky Verra | Jan 6, 2015 | Articles
Preparation for our next auction of Olympic memorabilia and philately in June 2015 is well under way, and in the mean time I thought that each week I would share with you the wealth of attractive and interesting memorabilia available to collectors from the various...
by Estelle Leclere | Aug 9, 2011 | Articles
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...