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The American Philatelist, published by the American Philatelic Society, is one of the world's oldest [citation needed] philatelic magazines still in operation; its first issue having appeared in January 1887. [1] The magazine is published monthly for members of the APS. It has the appearance of a standard glossy color magazine, typically ...
The American Philatelic Association was formed in 1886. [1] Other national, regional, and local clubs followed during the late nineteenth and into the twentieth centuries. Most of these societies were dominated by white men of financial means, and some actively excluded women and persons of color, though newer and more local clubs formed in the ...
The organization, originally named the American Philatelic Association, was established on September 14, 1886 in New York City, and the following day elected John Kerr Tiffany as its first president. [5]
Henry G. Lapham, Grand Award at the 1936 Third International Philatelic Exhibition [11] H. Dormer Legge; Alfred Lichtenstein [12] James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford, formed massive philatelic library [13] George Ward Linn, founder of Linn's Weekly Stamp News; Robson Lowe, "father of postal history" [14] John Luff [13]
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The American Philatelist (Altoona, PA: American Philatelic Association, 1887–1908; Bellefonte, PA: American Philatelic Society, 1908– ) ISSN 0003-0473; Australian STAMPS Professional - 2007– .
Walter H.C. Bromfield (1950) (Australia), President of the Philatelic Society of Western Australia for twenty-one years, intensive research on Western Australian stamps. [31] Lester George Brookman (1950) (United States), editor for many years of the American Philatelist, writer of books on the 19th-century issues of the U.S.A. [31]
John Robert Boker Jr. (January 29, 1913 – April 12, 2003) was an American philatelist who amassed some of the most prestigious collections of 19th century stamps ever seen by stamp collectors. Before his death in 2003, the Collectors Club of New York declared him, in 1996, to be the "outstanding philatelist of the last half of the twentieth ...