by Devlan Kruck | Jan 31, 2023 | Rarities
The world’s rarest stamps have much in common other than their unique nature: they are all enigmatic and have an unmistakable glamour surrounding their existence. From the famous British Guiana One-Cent Magenta, which currently holds the title as philately’s most...
by Ricky Verra | Jan 31, 2023 | Latest News & Press Release
The GB Overprint Society will be will be belatedly celebrating their 50th Anniversary with a display at the Royal Philatelic Society on Thursday 2nd February. 37 members of the society will be displaying 1-frame exhibits from 1pm this Thursday, covering a variety of...
by Devlan Kruck | Jan 30, 2023 | Famous Philatelists
Our next legendary collector was once described as “the most intense student of philately”. The history books and past auction catalogues, which feature material once held in his famous collection, do not sum up fully his achievements on the international philatelic...
by Devlan Kruck | Jan 30, 2023 | Latest News & Press Release
We are pleased to announce the dates of our upcoming auction programme, which will include our highly successful Spring auction series at the end of May between an Online offering in March, and a Specialised auction in late June. The precise details are as follows:-...
by Devlan Kruck | Dec 14, 2022 | Latest News & Press Release
The David Feldman SA Autumn Auction series went ahead successfully during the week 5th-9th December 2022 in Geneva, producing extremely strong results with over 3000 lots sold. The auction attracted 1144 bidders from around the world, with participants in the room, on...
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...
