by Devlan Kruck | Oct 22, 2020 | Rarities, Weekly Digest
Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I (1830 to 1916) was also the King of Hungary, Croatia, and Bohemia, and monarch of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He’s a fascinating fellow if you care to dig around in the history files. Not least because quite a few of his closest and...
by Tony Banwell | Jul 28, 2020 | Rarities, Weekly Digest
THE RE-DISCOVERY OF THE LEGENDARY AND UNIQUE 1915 $2 HALL OF CLASSICS BLOCK OF FOUR WITH CENTRE INVERTED After lying for decades unseen, one of the foremost Chinese, and indeed world, rarities has surfaced. I last had the privilege of seeing this icon of philately...
by Devlan Kruck | Jul 16, 2020 | Rarities, Weekly Digest
This will probably surprise you, but this article isn’t going to tell you how you can help Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders) in its fight against Covid-19. We have a fine brochure for that exact purpose. But in true philatelic terms what I am going to...
by David Feldman RDP(I), FRPSL | Jul 15, 2020 | Weekly Digest
It was 1975 and I had joined the team of Robson Lowe International to assist with their auctions. I still maintained my independent dealing business aside and was to leave “RL” 11 months later, but the auction experience was enormously rewarding, especially that first...
by Devlan Kruck | Jul 15, 2020 | Rarities, Weekly Digest
So we’re in Paris and feeling peckish. Don’t worry, there’s no better place on the planet than being in France, and even better the capital if you’re in need of some top nosh, or even posh grub. Because as we all know France is synonymous with fine dining...
