by Eva Mondehard | May 25, 2023 | Articles, Auction Highlights
The Bull’s Eye issue was so named as the design of the value figures inside an oval setting had the appearance of a bull’s eye, and was issued on 1st August 1843; it was therefore the second stamp issue which was not a local issue after the Penny Black in 1840. The...
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 | 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 Devlan Kruck | Nov 4, 2020 | Rarities, Weekly Digest
In the world of babies, triplets, as you might expect, are a lot rarer than twins. Apparently there is a 0.1% chance of having triplets whereas a 0.45% chance of having twins, both of which are in fact better odds than winning the jackpot in a lottery. Which depending...
by Ricky Verra | Jul 24, 2012 | Articles
This is the third extract in a series of articles about philatelic rarities taken from the Encyclopaedia of Rare and Famous Stamps, vol.1, pp.11-12, by L. N. Williams, published by David Feldman in 1992, with updates since its publication. The first issue of Brazil...