by Ricky Verra | Mar 21, 2022 | Articles, Auction Highlights
Below is an extract from the “Encyclopaedia of Rare and Famous Stamps” by L. N. Williams, vol.1, p.110-111, about the inverted overprint on the Goverment Parcels 1900 1s green & carmine. The example illustrated will feature in our upcoming June...
by Devlan Kruck | Mar 21, 2022 | Famous Philatelists
You don’t often write about the difference between a ‘flying spin*’ and a ‘flat spin**’ in a philatelic article, but Major Kenneth Macdonald Beaumont CBE DSO (1884 to 1965), who was a British Philatelist, could tell you the difference between these two ‘terms’ with...
by Devlan Kruck | May 22, 2021 | Auction Highlights, Weekly Digest
To many people, a tree is a tree. However, if you’re a botanist then there is a bit more to it than that. For starters, trees are perennial plants with a trunk, branches and leaves and there are around 100,000 different species, and even if you select just one of...
by Devlan Kruck | Apr 16, 2021 | Latest News & Press Release, Weekly Digest
Click here to view the entire collection Let’s be candid, King Edward VII (1841 to 1910) devoured the pleasures of life in quantities that even back then were considered detrimental to your health. Nowadays, if you consumed such vices, and we’re not just talking about...
by Devlan Kruck | Feb 18, 2021 | Latest News & Press Release, Weekly Digest
It isn’t difficult to demonstrate that issuing a public Notice won’t guarantee any level of acceptable compliance. In fact, in some cases it’s easier to illustrate that the opposite tends to occur. Just flick through the news and it’s littered with folk who have...
