David Feldman

David Feldman (* 1947 in Dublin ) is a professional philatelist , auctioneer and author from Ireland .

At the age of eight he organized a barter among schoolchildren. In 1958 he turned it into a mail order stamp club and held his first auction in 1967. In 1968 he graduated with honors in both business administration and philosophy . In the same year he wrote a bestseller on Irish philately called the Handbook of Irish Philately. When he met a Swiss woman in 1973, he moved to Switzerland. At his auctions he was able to achieve record prices repeatedly, including for the so-called " Bordeaux letter ". In 1993, he auctioned off the with a unique auction Mauritius stamps of Kanai Hiroyuki . Feldman also sponsored philatelic literature such as LN Williams' two-volume work entitled "Encyclopedia of Rare and Famous Stamps."

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Lieselotte Kugler (ed.), Andreas Hahn (ed.): Die Blaue Mauritius. The meeting of the queens in Berlin. A publication of the Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunications 2011, exhibition catalog in German and English, ISBN 978-3-9813202-1-3 , page 176
↑ ^a ^b History of the David Feldman auction house ( Memento from September 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 6, 2011

personal data
SURNAME	Feldman, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Irish philatelist and auctioneer
DATE OF BIRTH	1947
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dublin

[AusstellungskatalogMauritius-1] Lieselotte Kugler (ed.), Andreas Hahn (ed.): Die Blaue Mauritius. The meeting of the queens in Berlin. A publication of the Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunications 2011, exhibition catalog in German and English, ISBN 978-3-9813202-1-3 , page 176

[GeschichteAuktionshaus-2] History of the David Feldman auction house ( Memento from September 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 6, 2011