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- ↑ Charles J. Peterson Philatelic Literature Life Achievement 2013 Award Winner John M. Hotchner. 2013.
- ↑ National Postal Museum Council of Philatelists Emeriti. Smithsonian National Postal Museum. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
- ↑ "Roll of Distinguished Philatelists", Jon Aitchison, The London Philatelist , Vol. 126, No. 1445 (May 2017), pp. 194-195.
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