by Ricky Verra | Aug 24, 2021 | Articles, Rarities
The Spanish-American War took place between April 21st and August 13th, 1898. The main issue was Cuban independence where revolts had been occurring for some years against the Spanish colonial rule. By the late 1890s, American public opinion swayed in support of the...
by Devlan Kruck | Aug 23, 2021 | Auction Highlights, Latest News & Press Release
If you’ve tuned into the world news this month you’ll have noticed that the Caribbean and the Asia-Pacific have featured a fair amount of weather related topics – notwithstanding the obvious smattering of pandemic and Covid soundbites. But if hurricanes,...
by Devlan Kruck | Aug 23, 2021 | Auction Highlights
Crossing the Atlantic has been a fascination for many centuries. Industry and communications have relied upon an ability to navigate the challenges that lay between Europe and America and the America’s and the rest of the world. Technological advancements have from...
by Devlan Kruck | Aug 23, 2021 | Famous Philatelists
Isn’t it funny how certain facts about a legendary collector get caught in your mind, even when they appear superfluous to the philatelic tale? And Ernest R. Ackerman (1863 to 1931), a New York born, American Philatelist, and US Congressman, has plenty of relevant...
by Devlan Kruck | Jul 26, 2021 | Auction Highlights, Weekly Digest
There are a set of Primitive British Guiana stamps that don’t get the attention, or level of limelight these days, that their famous predecessors receive, despite them being rare and having a fascinating history. They also offer a treasure trove of varieties and...
by Devlan Kruck | Jul 26, 2021 | Famous Philatelists, Weekly Digest
Last month we had a little interlude from our usual legendary collector series and although we said we’d return henceforth and unveil the intrepid J Harvey Pirie in this episode, we are in fact taking a small detour to introduce you to a great philatelic star from the...
by Devlan Kruck | Jul 23, 2021 | Rarities, Weekly Digest
If there was such a phrase as a ‘philatelist’s philatelist’ then you’d expect the qualities the said stamp person would possess would be those that made them revered by other philatelists rather than with coin collectors. And throughout philatelic history there have...
by Marina Poncioni | Jul 21, 2021 | Latest News & Press Release, Weekly Digest
David Feldman International Auctioneers has strengthened its team with the appointment of Jean-Jacques Tillard as one of our international representatives. Jean-Jacques is an expert, member of the European Academy of Philately, the Monte Carlo Club and many other...
by Devlan Kruck | Jun 28, 2021 | Latest News & Press Release
There are times when a story doesn’t really need telling, it speaks for itself. And to a certain extent that is the case with our June Spring 2021 auction series, which successfully concluded just over a week ago, and this article could quite easily be distilled into...
by Devlan Kruck | Jun 28, 2021 | Latest News & Press Release
Back in that glimmering fourth month of the Gregorian calendar, April, we called your attention to the approaching auction of Russia Zemstvo issues, which was a mere fragment, albeit a sumptuous anthology, of a wide-ranging offering of Russia that included The...
by Devlan Kruck | Jun 28, 2021 | Auction Highlights, Rarities
In the northeastern Shandong province of the People’s Republic of China there is a coastal city called Yantai, which during the Qing dynasty (1644 to 1912) was known as Chefoo. What’s really fascinating about this fishing seaport is that back in the 1870s, when...
by Devlan Kruck | Jun 28, 2021 | Famous Philatelists
It’s a common misconception that philately is a male dominated activity. Indeed, the history books tell us a different story, because there have been females collecting stamps since its inception back in the late 1850s, and the philatelic records illustrate there are...
