Philatelic literature
Hurt wrote extensively on the subject of stamp collecting, but concentrated his writing efforts on the subject of local posts, such as his article on The Mail Service To and From Greenland under the Royal Greenland Company. He also co-authored The Danube Steam Navigation Company with fellow author Denwood Kelly.
Stamp collecting is the collecting of postage stamps and related objects. It is related to philately, which is the study of stamps. It has been one of the world's most popular hobbies since the late nineteenth century with the rapid growth of the postal service, as a never-ending stream of new stamps was produced by countries that sought to advertise their distinctiveness through their stamps.
He also edited and published several journals: The Record of Philately and the specialized local post journal, The Illustrated Philatelic Record. He also co-authored with Leon Norman Williams and his brother Maurice Williams, the Priced Catalogue of Local Postage Stamps, which was later expanded and published as Handbook of the Private Local Posts as part of Fritz Billig's Philatelic Handbook series.
Fritz F. Billig (1902–1986) was a Viennese philatelist and stamp dealer who fled to the United States after the Austrian Anschluss in 1938 and continued his career from Jamaica, New York. There he published a successful and long-running series of philatelic handbooks that are still regularly referred to by philatelists today.
L.N. and M. Williams were a philatelic writing partnership made up of brothers Leon Norman Williams and Maurice Williams (1905–1976).
Edward Benjamin Evans, RPS, a British army officer also known as "Major Evans", was a distinguished philatelist, stamp collector, and philatelic journalist. His philatelic specialization included Mauritius, the Confederate States of America, the Mulready envelopes, and the Indian feudatory states.
August Dietz was a philatelist, editor and publisher, who specialized in the study of mail and postal history of the Confederate States of America.
Frederick John Melville was a British philatelist, prolific philatelic author and founder of The Junior Philatelic Society. He was also a founder in 1907 of the Philatelic Literature Society. Melville is a member of the American Philatelic Society's Hall of Fame and was a signatory to The Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1921.
Philip Silver (1909–1999), of New York City, was a philatelist who specialized in the field of air mail stamps, known as aerophilately. He studied air mail stamps and postal history, and wrote extensively on the subject.
Dr. Emilio Diena, was an Italian philatelist who specialized in the postage stamps of Italy and published substantial research on the subject. He was probably the best known Continental philatelist of his generation.
Robert Granville Stone, was an American philatelic scholar who devoted over fifty years to the study of certain specific segments of philately.
Paul Hilmar Jensen, was a Norwegian philatelist whose collections often won gold at philatelic shows, and whose work in community service in the field of philately was recognized by King Harald V of Norway.
George Ward Linn, of Ohio, was a philatelist who published philatelic literature extensively and was the founder of Linn's Weekly Stamp News in 1928, the philatelic journal for which he is most famous.
J. Murray Bartels was a New York City-based dealer and auctioneer of rare postage stamps. He was also well known for his knowledge of United States postal stationery.
Bertram William Henry Poole was an American student of philately, and wrote numerous monographs on various aspects of the hobby. He was well known as a respected philatelist in Great Britain before emigrating to the United States shortly before 1913.
Varro Eugene Tyler, of Auburn, Nebraska, was a professor of pharmacognosy and philatelist who specialized in the study of forged postage stamps and the forgers who created them.
Walter J. Conrath, of Pennsylvania, was a stamp collector who specialized in aerophilately, the study of air mail stamps, and wrote extensively on the subject. His career was cut short when he died in an automobile accident at the age of 35.
Charles Foster Richards, of New York City, was a lifelong stamp collector and a charter member of the American Philatelic Association.
David Louis Lidman of Chicago, Illinois, and New York City, was an author of philatelic literature in journals, books and newspapers.
Elliott Perry, of New Jersey, was a researcher and expert on postage stamps and postal history of the United States.
Carl Einar Pelander was a stamp dealer and auctioneer who was an expert on postage stamps and postal history of the Scandinavian countries of Denmark, Greenland, Iceland, Danish West Indies, Finland, Norway, and Sweden.
Morton Dean Joyce (1900–1989), of New York City, was a philatelist who specialized in the collection of United States revenue stamps and became known by his philatelic friends as the "Dean of United States revenue collectors."
Richard McPherren Cabeen, of Chicago, Illinois, was well known philatelist in the Chicago area. He was one of philately’s foremost writers of philatelic literature.
