by Devlan Kruck | Jul 2, 2020 | Famous Philatelists, Weekly Digest
It’s philatelic poetry that Edward ‘Stanley’ Gibbons was born in June 1840, the same year and only one month after the Penny Black came into existence. You can’t escape the impact Stanley Gibbons had on the world of philately, and again it...
by Marina Poncioni | Jan 29, 2020 | Famous Philatelists
When did you start collecting and why? I was born 1941 in Sweden and I started collecting when I was 5 years old. At first, I was more interested in maps and cartography. My attraction to stamps came naturally, almost at the same time. When I was 12 years old, I...
by Marina Poncioni | Aug 6, 2019 | Famous Philatelists
When did you start collecting and why? When I was 8 years old I started a kid’s worldwide stamp collection accumulating stamps at Stamp Collecting Corner each Saturday with my $1.00 a week allowance. By high school I had stopped collecting and did not take up...
