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Lieutenant-Colonel William Byam was a British Harley Street physician whose home in Guernsey was occupied by the Germans during the Second World War. In his spare time, Byam was a noted philatelist who was added to the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1949.
William Thorne was a wealthy American businessman and philatelist. In poor health, he retired early from the leather trade and began to collect postage stamps. He was one of the founders of the Philatelic Society of New York and the second president of the Collectors Club of New York. He was the owner of the unique block of four of the 1869 24¢ United States stamps with inverted center. He sold his collection but restarted in order to provide a distraction from his poor health. He died in 1907 after three operations for what was thought to be throat cancer.
Adolf Passer FRPSL was an Austrian philatelist and authority on the stamps of Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Ottoman Empire and Turkey.
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- ↑ The Society's medals and honorary fellowship. The Royal Philatelic Society London, 2009, p. 4.
- ↑ Greg Manning Galleries' United Nations Archives Auction a Sellout; Hong Kong and Zurich Auctions Also Exceed Pre-Sale Estimates. Business Wire, 25 November 2003. Retrieved 29 January 2013. Archived here.
- ↑ "Here & There: RDP 1984" in Gibbons Stamp Monthly , May 1984, p. 41.
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