In an age of information overload, many things are quickly forgotten, no matter how earth-shattering they may have been. This also applies to philately. The author therefore records the birth and development of a strategy that Erivan Haub had begun to pursue during his lifetime: to return his philatelic legacy and his unique and significant collections to the philatelic world, thereby reviving the hobby of collecting. The author describes the various stages, gives the movers and shakers and the creative minds a chance to have their say, and then, in the second part of the 244-page book, recounts the history of the ERIVAN auctions. Starting with the preliminary auctions (2016–2018) and continuing with the auction series that took place in Wiesbaden, Zurich and New York, which began with a rarities auction in Stockholm in 2019.
The book also covers auctions that most people in Europe have probably never heard of, and many readers will appreciate the ‘fact check’ figures provided by the author for each auction. An appendix even provides the first-ever statistical overview of all ERIVAN auctions!
The book will be published in May in a German edition and an English edition with identical content. It is richly illustrated and designed in the same format as the 29-volume documentation ‘Die ERIVAN-Sammelbände’ (The ERIVAN Collected Works), which will also be published in 2025.
Contact: Heinrich Köhler Auktionshaus GmbH & Co. KG, Hasengartenstr. 25, 65189 Wiesbaden, Germany, telephone +49 611 341 490, email: info@heinrich-koehler.de
