Who is Trevor Pateman?
There are now several Trevor Patemans on the
Internet…. I am the one born in England in 1947 with a previous academic career
which is easily tracked. I am not on Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Tumblr or Instagram.
Those are other Trevor Patemans J
This Trevor Pateman spent last week 12 – 16 September
working at STAMPEX London. My stand was busy and now it is all over, I am very
tired. On the front of my stand, my assistant was selling All World liquidation items at
£3.50 each item – there were a few thousand items to pick from. I sat at the
back of the stand selling mostly Russia, Iberian Peninsula and Latin America, including
collections as well as single items.
It was a bonus in the last afternoon of
the show when an ebay dealer sat down and ended up buying some bulky Latin American
accumulations based on the ancient stock of Errington & Martin [Errimar] and Oswald Marsh. The dealer's smartphone App. allowed him to make an immediate transfer to my bank account.
I hope to have some new Russia stock soon which I
can Blog about but I have not been a very active buyer recently. The adverse exchange rates make it difficult for me to buy outside the United Kingdom right now.
Thank god for that. I have missed your blogs on Russian stamps.
ReplyDeleteComing soon ... Yesterday I bought in LONDON interesting material from the Agathon and Oleg Faberge collection of Russian Imperial Fiscals including stamps acquired by Agathon in the 1900 - 1914 period when he was assembling his Zemstvo collection. He started to plate them and record varieties, some of them unknown today, but then ... watch this space
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