Michael Sefi

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Michael Sefi
LVO, FRPSL
Born (1943-12-11) 11 December 1943 (age 81)
London
OccupationKeeper of the Royal Philatelic Collection
Academic work
Disciplinephilatelist

Michael Richard Sefi LVO, FRPSL (born 11 December 1943 [1] ) is a British philatelist and was the Keeper of the Royal Philatelic Collection from 1 January 2003. [2]

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Life

Sefi was born in London. When he was a child, his grandfather introduced him to stamp collecting. He began collecting stamps again in his early thirties [3] when his own children received stamps and stamp albums as a gift [4] [5] and while he was looking for a hobby to ease the stress from the Mann Judd and Touche Ross merger. [3] He specialized in collecting the first postage stamps of George V's reign. [5]

He worked as a chartered accountant until he partially retired in 1983. He was a partner of Mann Judd, later Touche Ross, [later Deloitte] in the 1970s. [3] He became an active member of the Great Britain Philatelic Society of which he was president between 2000/02 and 2012/14. Sefi was a member of Council of the Royal Philatelic Society London between 1990 and 2005 where he was a member of many decision-making bodies. [3]

In September 1996, [3] he was hired as deputy to the Keeper of the Royal Philatelic Collection, who was Charles Goodwyn. He helped him accelerate the mounting of the George VI postage stamp collection. [6] Sefi participated in international philatelic exhibitions of parts of the Royal Philatelic Collection and in welcoming students and researchers. He played a major role in the move of the collection from Buckingham Palace to St James's Palace in 1999. [5]

When Charles Goodwyn announced his retirement in late 2002, Sefi was chosen to succeed him among three other candidates by the Keeper of the Privy Purse. [7]

He retired as Keeper of the Royal Philatelic Collection in September 2018.

He directed the preparations of The Queen's Own, a Royal Collection exhibit at the National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C., which was held in 2004. [8] To assist Sefi, he had the help of Surésh Dhargalkar, an architect and conservation specialist, who was Sefi's assistant from 2003. [9] To help him for the mounting, he hired George VI specialist, Rod Vousden, as assistant. [10]

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References and sources

References
  1. ↑ SEFI, Michael Richard', Who's Who 2010, A & C Black, 2010; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2009 ; online edn, Nov 2009, accessed 11 March 2010.
  2. ↑ "Royal Collection gets new Keeper" Archived 27 April 2010 at the Wayback Machine , Stamp Magazine website, retrieved 20 December 2007.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Interview on 15 October 2004, The Chronicle, journal of the Great Britain Collectors Club, January 2005. WebCite archive here.
  4. ↑ Sefi, Michael. "A Collector's Tale" Archived 8 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine , Royal Mail website, retrieved 20 December 2007.
  5. 1 2 3 Courtney, Nicholas (2004). The Queen's Stamps, page 310.
  6. ↑ In October 2004 Archived 23 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine , Sefi announced that Vousden, his assistant, and he had finished three-quarters of this mounting.
  7. ↑ Courtney, Nicholas (2004). The Queen's Stamps, page 312.
  8. ↑ The Queen's Own, National Postal Museum, official website.
  9. ↑ Courtney, Nicholas (2004). The Queen's Stamps, pages 308–309.
  10. ↑ Courtney, Nicholas (2004). The Queen's Stamps, page 313.
  11. ↑ "No. 60534". The London Gazette (Supplement). 15 June 2013. p. 3.
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