Roger Booth (philatelist)

Last updated February 19, 2019

Roger G. Booth is a British philatelist who is a Fellow of the Royal Philatelic Society London and an expert on the revenue stamps of the United Kingdom and Ireland.

The Royal Philatelic Society London (RPSL) is the oldest philatelic society in the world. It was founded on 10 April 1869 as The Philatelic Society, London. The society runs a postal museum, the Museum of Philatelic History, at its Devonshire Place headquarters in London.

A revenue stamp, tax stamp, duty stamp or fiscal stamp is a (usually) adhesive label used to collect taxes or fees on documents, tobacco, alcoholic drinks, drugs and medicines, playing cards, hunting licenses, firearm registration, and many other things. Typically businesses purchase the stamps from the government, and attach them to taxed items as part of putting the items on sale, or in the case of documents, as part of filling out the form.

Booth has written important stamp catalogues of those areas and his papers relating to his researches are now in the British Library Philatelic Collections as the Booth Papers.^[1]

The British Library Philatelic Collections is the national philatelic collection of the United Kingdom with over 8 million items from around the world. It was established in 1891 as part of the British Museum Library, later to become the British Library, with the collection of Thomas Tapling. In addition to bequests and continuing donations, the library received consistent deposits by the Crown Agency and has become a primary research collection for British Empire and international history. The collections contain a wide range of artefacts in addition to postage stamps, from newspaper stamps to a press used to print the first British postage stamps.

The Booth Papers are a collection of philatelic research documents of Roger Booth FRPSL used for the preparation of his catalogues of British and Irish revenue stamps. The papers form part of the British Library Philatelic Department Collections and were donated to the Library in 2004.

Selected publications

Judicial Stamps of Great Britain and Pre-1922 Ireland, 1997. (With Clive Akerman).

Geoffrey Clive Akerman was an English philatelist. In 2001, Akerman and Gavin H. Fryer won the Crawford Medal from The Royal Philatelic Society London for their work "The Reform of the Post Office in the Victorian Era and Its Impact on Economic and Social Activity". He won numerous other awards for displays at stamp exhibitions. In 2009, Akerman won the Revenue Society Research Medal.

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References

↑ Philatelic Research at the British Library by David Beech, August 2004. Barnet & District Philatelic Society, 2013. Retrieved 10 June 2013.

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[1] Philatelic Research at the British Library by David Beech, August 2004. Barnet & District Philatelic Society, 2013. Retrieved 10 June 2013.