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Philately is the study of postage stamps and postal history. It also refers to the collection and appreciation of stamps and other philatelic products. While closely associated with stamp collecting and the study of postage, it is possible to be a philatelist without owning any stamps. For instance, the stamps being studied may be very rare or reside only in museums.
Philatelic literature is written material relating to philately, primarily information about postage stamps and postal history.
The Penny Red was a British postage stamp, issued in 1841. It succeeded the Penny Black and continued as the main type of postage stamp in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until 1879, with only minor changes to the design during that time. The colour was changed from black to red because of difficulty in seeing a cancellation mark on the Penny Black; a black cancellation mark was readily visible on a Penny Red.
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.
Percy Gray Doane (1877–1945) was a philatelic dealer from New York City. He was born in Brooklyn on January 13, 1878 and died there on March 28, 1945.
Frederick Adolphus Philbrick, KC was an English barrister, judge, and an early philatelist.
Adelaide Lucy Fenton was an early female philatelist and philatelic journalist who was among the first to adopt a scientific approach to philately. Fenton has been called "...the first female philatelist of note".
Mount Brown was an early British philatelist and the compiler of only the second published stamp catalogue in the English language. Brown attended the City of London School and started to collect stamps in around 1860.
Frederick William Booty was an English artist from, who was also the author of the first postage stamp catalogue in English, and the first illustrated stamp catalogue anywhere.
Alexander Berridge Kay was the founder, with E.J. Bridger, of the stamp dealers Bridger and Kay in 1897 or 1898 and a leading figure in the Fiscal Philatelic Society. In 1910, Kay identified used copies of the Italian forgery of the British grey-green Victorian 10 shilling stamp watermarked anchor and perforated 14. His letter to The London Philatelist, published in November 1910, warned the philatelic community of its existence.
Charles William Viner A.M., Ph.D., was a British philatelist who was a founding member of the Philatelic Society, London, later to become the Royal Philatelic Society London, and who was present at the initial meeting of the society on 10 April 1869, and serving as its Secretary from 1871 to 1874. His obituary in The London Philatelist referred to him as the "Father of Philately" and elsewhere he was described as the vieille garde of philately having been actively collecting and writing about stamps since 1860. In 1921 he was entered on the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists as one of the founding Fathers of philately.
Edward A. Oppen was the creator of one of the first stamp catalogues in English as well as the author of a number of foreign language textbooks. In a stamp collecting journal, he was described as a "...classical teacher".
Arnold Cartwright Waterfall was a philatelist who was a specialist in the stamps of Tibet. He wrote extensive on the subject and his articles appeared in Gibbons Stamp Monthly, the China Clipper, the Collectors' Club Philatelist, the China Philatelic Society Bulletin and The Philatelist. His The postal history of Tibet was written after thirty years of personal research and included the information that some Tibetan stamps were printed using house paint and that soot or boot polish were sometimes used to cancel stamps.
The Philatelic Record was an important early philatelic magazine published in 36 volumes between February 1879 and 1914. It was originally published by Pemberton, Wilson and Company of London and later by Buhl & Company when it was merged with The Stamp News to form The Philatelic Record and Stamp News, under the editorship of Edward J. Nankivell. It reverted to its original title when it was taken over by Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons.
The Stamp-Collector's Magazine was one of the earliest philatelic magazines. It was published in twelve volumes between February 1863 and 1874.
The Stamp-Collector's Review and Monthly Advertiser was one of the earliest philatelic magazines. It was published by Edward Moore & Co. of Liverpool from 15 December 1862 to 15 June 1864. Edward Loines Pemberton was the editor from January 1864.
James Bendon is a stamp dealer, publisher, and philatelist who is an authority on specimen stamps. He wrote and published the first worldwide catalogue of Universal Postal Union specimen stamps and subsequently published philatelic books by authors such as Robson Lowe and James Negus.
Stamp Collecting was a weekly magazine of stamp collecting published in London from 1913 to 1984.
Henry Garratt-Adams was a British philatelist, philatelic publisher and dealer in philatelic literature based in Kinnersley Castle in Herefordshire, England. After his death, a large hoard of philatelic literature was found at the castle that included many rare items dating to the earliest days of philately.
Georges Herpin was a 19th-century French stamp collector who in 1864 coined the French word philatélie, which in English became "philately".
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- 1 2 "Samuel Allan Taylor". The Guideline. LXXXVI (6). June 2016. Retrieved 4 December 2016.
- ↑ The Stamp collector's record. OCLC WorldCat. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
- ↑ Birch, Brian. (2014) Bibliography of Philatelic Periodicals Archived 2022-12-15 at the Wayback Machine . 8th edition. Standish, Wigan: Brian Birch. p. 822.
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