by Devlan Kruck | Nov 23, 2022 | Auction Highlights
Our upcoming Autumn Auction series includes an attractive selection of the distinguished 1858 Moldavian Bull’s Head stamps. The Hausman catalogue features eight examples of this primitive yet coveted postal adhesive which was Romania’s first issue. These famous...
by Devlan Kruck | Nov 23, 2022 | Rarities
Mention the name Madonna to a certain section of society and they immediately think of the pop star who goes by the same name. However, to others it conjures up a religious image, especially when coupled with the words “and child”. To the philatelic community Madonna...
by Devlan Kruck | Nov 23, 2022 | Articles, Famous Philatelists
As any serious philatelist will tell you, patience is an essential virtue if you want to assemble a topclass collection. Of course copious amounts of money can shortcut the search, but in reality even wealth has to wait for those elusive items to come to market, and...
by Marcus Orsi | Nov 23, 2022 | Articles
Laurence Hausman has been an ardent stamp collector for more than 40 years, initially collecting the topic of stamps-on-stamps. After several years he further focused his collection on the stamps that are depicted on those stamps-on-stamps. The topic of...
by Devlan Kruck | Oct 28, 2022 | Auction Highlights
In our upcoming Autumn Auction series 2022, being held from December 5th to 9th in Geneva, we have a catalogue which features unique material from the archive of Jean de Sperati called The “Art of Sperati” Collection, including 136 lots of never seen before...
by Devlan Kruck | Oct 27, 2022 | Famous Philatelists
Given the achievements in the world of philately of our next legendary collector, you might be forgiven for thinking his career must have been in forensic science or perhaps he was a top investigator. However, Dr Carl Walske (1922 to 2009) an American philatelist and...
by Devlan Kruck | Oct 26, 2022 | Rarities
It may at times occur to the philatelist that there is a rather romantic synergy between the magical shores of the Mauritius island and the mystical stamps of the “Post Office” issue. And one could equally draw parallels with the now more than rare native bird of that...
by Marcus Orsi | Oct 25, 2022 | Latest News & Press Release
Specialized catalogues have always been part of the Feldman brand from the “Helveticus” sales of Switzerland and the “Kanai” Mauritius of the early 1990’s through to the more recent sale of the famous John du Pont collection of British...
by Marcus Orsi | Sep 22, 2022 | Auction Highlights
Our upcoming auction series which will be held on the first week of December, brings the fifth sale in a series of Princely States material being offered from the Dan Walker Collection. More than two hundred lots will be available on Monday 5th of December...
by Devlan Kruck | Sep 19, 2022 | Rarities
Here’s a stamp question for you. What makes a common and inexpensive Newfoundlands 1919 3c Brown Caribou stamp outrageously more valuable? If you answer; ‘the overprint’, then you are partly correct, in that the Postmaster J. A. Robinson of St. John’s...
by Devlan Kruck | Sep 19, 2022 | Famous Philatelists
Whilst the legendary collector series has endeavoured to be reasonably chronological, with the odd rewind and fastforward, there are special moments in time when circumstances require that the normal pattern of things should halt to honour the passing of a great....
by Devlan Kruck | Jun 27, 2022 | Famous Philatelists
Our next instalment of philatelic greatness is a man whose collection was as monumental as many of the true stamp legends we have already highlighted, such as Ferrary, Hind and Caspary. Josiah K Lilly Jnr (1893 to 1966), an American Philatelist, amassed a collection...
