Before we get to the content, I should point out that the beauty of this book is the author’s skill for taking a complicated subject and making it very simple to understand. There are countless philatelic books and articles that undertake to enlighten the reader on less complex issues but end up making things far […]
Scott Specialized adds another 67 listings to Venezuela
It’s taken a while but Scott is now recognizing Venezuela’s postal fiscals (or postage and revenue stamps) in the 2017 edition of its Classic Specialized Catalogue. This bumps up the number of stamps listed during the classic period to a further 67 items, all of them now prefixed under an “AR” code. AR1 through to […]
Latin American Auctions – first event for eighteen months
Brian Moorhouse’s auctions tend to be somewhat infrequent affairs, the last being held in February last year. Peterborough is a rather incongruous location but for a single day it becomes the epicenter of Latin American philately. Brian had curated over 750 lots and attendance was good with a number of international collectors who had made […]
Royal puts on a Latin American show
Fifty-two frames of some exceptional Latin American material was the feast laid on by the RPSL yesterday. Exhibits were described as covering the canvas between “world class rarities” and “modest, but nonetheless interesting”. Either way, it was a treat. With so much to cover I can only give a flavour. For want of a theme, […]
Extensive Venezuela – Peter Brack collection goes to auction
It isn’t often we see an auction catalogue focused on Venezuela. Strictly speaking, this Cavendish auction was billed as a ‘Collection of Central and South America’ but this was very much dominated by Brack’s superb holdings of Venezuela. Brack lived in Venezuela for a time and was an occasional contributor to The Mainsheet, back in […]
World Stamp Show – NY2016
The US holds an international stamp show every ten years but it was back in 1956 that New York took centre stage as the host of the world’s most important philatelic event. The cavernous Javits Centre in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan provided ample space for collectors and dealers to spend seven days meeting, buying, selling, exhibiting […]