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- ↑ The Society's medals and honorary fellowship. The Royal Philatelic Society London, 2009, p. 4.
- ↑ "Newsdesk: Harold Fisher - An Appreciation" by Eric Allen in Gibbons Stamp Monthly , September 1986, p. 10.
- ↑ "Personality Parade" in Gibbons Stamp Monthly , August 1965, p. 211.
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