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Benjamin Wishnietsky

Benjamin Wishnietsky retired to Florida and served on the board of the Hollywood Stamp Club, in Hollywood, Florida and was editor of their newsletter, the Hollywood Philatelist for more than 30 years.

Berlin Correspondent

Dana Andrews portrays an American radio correspondent reporting from within Nazi Germany, whose principal source of information is an elderly philatelist.

Edward Bacon

Edward Denny Bacon (1860–1938), British entrepreneur and philatelist

H. D. S. Haverbeck

Harrison Donald Seaman Haverbeck or H.D.S. Haverbeck, FRPSL, RDP (October 9, 1913–September 26, 1986 New York), was a noted philatelist and philatelic journalist, whose interests centered on India and Indian states, Tibet and Nepal.

Henry Crocker

Henry J. Crocker (1861–1912), San Franciscan businessman and philatelist

Henry Ellis

Henry Ellis Harris (1902–1977), leading philatelist and stamp dealer

Herst

Herman “Pat” Herst, Jr. (1909–1999), philatelist and writer of books on philately.

Jean-Pierre Mangin

Jean-Pierre Mangin (born 26 October 1937) is a French philatelist specialized in finding error in the design of postage stamps.

Johl

Max G. Johl (1876-1935), an American philatelist of Connecticut

Kasimir Bileski

Kasimir Bileski (September 14, 1908 - January 19, 2005) was a noted Canadian philatelist and stamp dealer based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

King George V Seahorses

George V was a keen philatelist and took an interest in the design of the stamps by the Australian sculptor Bertram Mackennal, who included the King's head in profile, a design that he had first used for the Coronation medal.

Peter P. McCann

Peter P. McCann, of University Park, Florida, is a philatelist who has supported the hobby of philately on a national scale.

Philatelic calendar

A graduate of Carthage College and the Colorado School of Mines, Keightley spend most of his working life in England as a petroleum engineer and was an avid philatelist.

Sheet of stamps

The philatelist counts the single stamps horizontally from left to right, but the post counts them vertically from top to bottom.

Stanley J. Luft

In addition to serving on the council of the American Philatelic Congress, Stanley Luft was a founding member of the Acadéemie Européene de Philatélie and a corresponding member of the Académie de Philatélie, and, at the France & Colonies Philatelist he served as editor.

United Nations Postal Administration

The idea for the UN to issue stamps originated in 1947 with José Arce the ambassador from Argentina and president of the United Nations General Assembly, who was himself a philatelist.

Vladimir Nikolayevich Petrov

Vladimir Nikolayevich Petrov (1915, Krasnodar oblast, Russia - March 17, 1999 Kensington, Maryland) was at various times an academic, philatelist, prisoner, forced laborer, political prisoner, adventurer, factory worker and soldier.


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