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| x William Hamilton |
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Pottery of Ancient Greece |
Sir William Hamilton, KB, PC (13 December 1730 – 6 April 1803) was a Scottish diplomat, antiquarian, archaeologist and vulcanologist.
Hamilton was the fourth son of Lord Archibald Hamilton, governor of Jamaica. He was commissioned into the 3rd Foot...
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| x Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin |
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Ancient Greek sculpture |
Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin and 11th Earl of Kincardine (20 July 1766, Broomhall, Fife - 14 November 1841, Paris) was a British nobleman and diplomat, known for the removal of marble sculptures (also known as the Elgin Marbles) from the...
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| x Anatoly Karpov |
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Postage stamp |
Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (Russian: Анатолий Евгеньевич Карпов Anatolij Evgen'evič Karpov; born May 23, 1951) is a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion. He was world champion from 1975 to 1985, played three more matches...
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| x Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom |
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Postage stamp |
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is the queen regnant of sixteen independent states known informally as the Commonwealth realms: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada,...
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| x Freddie Mercury |
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Postage stamp |
Larry Lurex was the artist name used for a musical project by Trident Studios’ house engineer Robin Geoffrey Cable, in 1972.
The name is a pun on the stage name of glam rock star Gary Glitter and the metallic yarn Lurex.
Cable was experimenting with...
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| x Rainier III, Prince of Monaco |
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Postage stamp |
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (Rainier Louis Henri Maxence Bertrand Grimaldi, Count of Polignac; 31 May 1923 – 6 April 2005), styled His Serene Highness The Sovereign Prince of Monaco, ruled the Principality of Monaco for more than 50 years, making...
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| x August Von Spiess |
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Col. August Von Spiess, also spelled von Spieß (August 6, 1864 — 1953), formally known as Oberst August Roland von Braccioforte zum Portner und Höflein, was an officer, writer, famous hunter and Hunting Master for the Royal Romanian court.
August...
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| x Sarah Sophia Banks |
Sarah Sophia Banks (October 28, 1744 - September 27, 1818) was an English collector of antiquarian items and sister of the naturalist Joseph Banks.
Sarah collected coins and medals and ephemera which is now historically valuable like broadsheets,...
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| x David Bautista |
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Lunch box |
David Michael Bautista, Jr. (born January 18, 1969), better known by his ring name, Batista, is an American professional wrestler currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment on its SmackDown brand.
In professional wrestling, Batista is a five...
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| x Josh Beckett |
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Joshua Patrick Beckett (born May 15, 1980, in Spring, Texas) is a Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. During his career in the playoffs, he won the 2003 World Series MVP Award with the Florida Marlins, and...
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| x Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland |
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Plant collecting |
Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (Welbeck Abbey, 11 February 1715 – 17 July 1785, Bulstrode Park, Buckinghamshire), styled Lady Margaret Harley before 1734, Duchess of Portland from 1734 to her husband's death in 1761, and Dowager...
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| x Michelle Burke |
Michelle Burke (born Michelle Gray on November 30, 1970) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Jodi Kramer in the 1993 Richard Linklater film Dazed and Confused and as Connie Conehead in the 1993 film Coneheads. She also...
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| x Mary Flagler Cary |
Mary Flagler Cary (1901-1967) was heir to part of the Standard Oil fortune and became a notable philanthropist, mainly through the charitable trust established at her death. She was the granddaughter of Henry Morrison Flagler, one of the founders of...
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| x Philippe Charbonneaux |
Philippe Charbonneaux (1917-1998) was a French product designer, best-known for car and truck design, but also known for other products such as television sets. Many of his works are now exhibits in places such as Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris,...
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| x Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier |
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Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier (27 September 1752, Paris - 20 June 1817, Aix-la-Chapelle) was a member of the Académie Française and the Choiseul-Gouffier family, French ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1784 until the fall...
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| x Walter A. Coslet |
Walter Allen Coslet (born in Lewistown, Montana on October 31, 1922, died in Helena, Montana on November 29, 1996) was a well known science fiction fan, collector, and fanzine publisher as well as a charter member of the International Society of...
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| x Lewis Evans |
Lewis Evans (1853–1930) was an English businessman and scientific instrument collector.
Lewis Evans was the son of Sir John Evans, an archaeologist, and younger brother the more famous archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans (1851–1941) who discovered...
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| x Charles F. Gunther |
Charles Frederick Gunther (March 6, 1837–February 10, 1920) was a German-American confectioner and collector. He purchased many of the items now owned by the Chicago History Museum.
Gunther and his family moved from Württemberg to Pennsylvania in...
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| x Axel Gustaf Gyllenkrok |
Axel Gustaf Gyllenkrok born July 14, 1783 in Gödelöv parish, Malmöhus County, southern Sweden, died May 18, 1865 in Lund, was a baron, zoology collector and philantropist.
He was the great-grandson (paternal) of military general Axel Gyllenkrok ...
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| x Robert A. Haag |
Robert A. Haag (born 1956) is an American famous for collecting meteorites.
He was one of the world's first meteorite hunters, and today remains securely at the top of his field. Some of the meteorites acquired from Haag are currently on display in...
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| x Kjell Hallbing |
Kjell Hallbing (born November 5, 1934 in Bærum, died May 6, 2004 in Tønsberg) was a Norwegian author of Western books.
Under the pseudonym Louis Masterson, he wrote a series of books about the fictitious Texas Ranger (later U.S. Marshal) Morgan Kane...
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| x Barry Halper | Baseball card | T206 Honus Wagner |
Barry Halper was an extensive collector of baseball memorabilia. During the auction of the collection, Sotheby's Auction House called it the "World Series of Sports Auctions." Many items from his collection have since turned out to have been stolen...
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| Uniform | Game-worn Pud Galvin jersey | |||
| Baseball glove | Game-worn Christy Mathewson jersey | |||
| Contract | Game-worn Cap Anson jersey | |||
| Ticket | Game-worn King Kelly jersey | |||
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| x Zack Hample |
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Zack Hample (born September 14, 1977) is an American sports writer and Major League baseball collector. He is best known for having caught more than 4,000 baseballs in the stands at Major League stadiums.
Hample has written two books. The first, How...
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| x George Gustav Heye |
George Gustav Heye (1874 – January 20, 1957) was a collector of Native American artifacts. His collection became the core of the National Museum of the American Indian.
Heye was the son of Carl Friederich Gustav Heye; and Marie Antoinette Lawrence...
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| x Grant Hill |
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Grant Henry Hill (born October 5, 1972) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Phoenix Suns. As a collegian with Duke University and early in his professional career with the Detroit Pistons, Hill was considered...
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| x Bernard Kinsey |
Bernard Kinsey is a Los Angeles philanthropist and entreprenuer with a passion for African-American history and art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He and his wife Shirley, one of the most admired and respected couples in Los Angeles, are...
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| x Baron Johann Knoop |
Baron Johann Knoop (22 July 1846, Moscow – 1882, St. Magnus), was a collector of musical instruments who possessed a total of 29 great violins, violas, and cellos at one time or another including some four Stradivari violas. Several instruments are...
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| x John Lanzendorf |
John J. Lanzendorf (born 1946) is an American hairstylist who amassed one of the world's largest collections of dinosaur-themed artwork. The collection is now owned by the Children's Museum of Indianapolis.
Lanzendorf lives in the Gold Coast...
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| x Harold LeMay |
Harold E. LeMay (September 4, 1919 – 2000) was the owner of Harold LeMay Enterprises, a refuse company in the Tacoma, Washington metro area. Harold LeMay amassed the largest privately owned collection of automobiles, motorcycles, trucks, other...
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| x Jay Leno |
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Automobile | Porsche Carrera GT |
James Douglas Muir "Jay" Leno (born April 28, 1950) is an American stand-up comedian and television host. From 1992 to 2009, Leno was the host of NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. During his tenure, the show held the top ratings position in its...
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| x Ashton Lever |
Sir Ashton Lever (March 5, 1729 - January 28, 1788) was an English collector of natural objects.
Lever began by collecting seashells in about 1760, and gradually accumulated one of the richest private collections of natural objects, including live...
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| x Frederick B. Lindstrom |
Frederick B. Lindstrom (June 8, 1915—January 8, 1998) was an American sociologist specializing in popular culture and demography who spent over four decades, starting in 1953, as professor (later professor emeritus) of sociology at Arizona State...
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| x Colin Mackenzie |
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Colonel Colin Mackenzie (1754 – 1821) was Surveyor General of India, and an art collector and orientalist.
Mackenzie was born in Stornoway, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. He produced many of the first accurate maps of India, and his research and...
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| x James Macpherson |
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James Macpherson (Scottish Gaelic: Seumas Mac a' Phearsain or Seumas MacMhuirich; 27 October 1736 – 17 February 1796) was a Scottish poet, known as the "translator" of the Ossian cycle of poems.
Macpherson was born at Ruthven in the parish of...
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| x Charlotte von Mahlsdorf |
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Charlotte von Mahlsdorf (18 March 1928 - 30 April 2002) was the founder of the Gründerzeit Museum (a museum of every-day items) in Berlin-Mahlsdorf.
Von Mahlsdorf was born Lothar Berfelde, the son of Max Berfelde and Gretchen Gaupp in Berlin...
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| x Antoine-Alfred Marche |
Antoine-Alfred Marche (February 15, 1844, Boulogne, France - 1898, Paris) was a French naturalist and explorer. He visited Africa, the Philippines and finally the Marianas Islands. He made collections of various artifacts. He made a large collection...
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| x Alexander Kennedy Miller |
Alexander Kennedy Miller (1906 – October 23, 1993), also known as A. K. Miller, was an eccentric recluse who operated Miller's Flying Service in 1930, in Montclair, New Jersey, USA. Miller provided mail and other delivery services by means of a...
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| x Oscar Monnig |
Oscar E. Monnig (4 September 1902 – 4 May 1999) was an American amateur astronomer, acknowledged for his contributions to meteoritics.
Monnig was born in Fort Worth, Texas, the United States. In 1925 he received a law degree from the University of...
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| x Curt Schilling |
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World War II |
Curtis Montague Schilling (born November 14, 1966 in Anchorage, Alaska) is a former American Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher. He helped lead the Philadelphia Phillies to the World Series in 1993 and has won World Series...
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| x Seth Swirsky |
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Seth Swirsky (b. August 5, 1960, New Haven, Connecticut) is an American pop music songwriter, author, recording artist and noted baseball memorabilia collector.
In 1980, at the age of 20, Seth Swirsky wrote the national jingle for Thomas' English...
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| x Luigi Tarisio |
Luigi Tarisio (c. 1790 – October 1854) was an Italian violin dealer and collector.
He was born at Fontaneto d'Agogna, near Novara, Piedmont, of humble parents and is said to have trained as a carpenter, playing violin as a hobby. He developed an...
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| x G Vidyaraj |
G Vidyaraj is a retired lawyer residing in Bangalore, India, who owns some of the largest rubies in the world. His collection includes the Raviratna Ruby, the largest ruby in the world at 3,600 carats (720 g), the Rajaratna Ruby and the Neelanjali...
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| x Gavin Walsh |
Gavin Walsh (born 1965 or 1966) is an Irish computer programmer, non-fiction writer, and collector of rare music memorabilia.
Walsh began collecting music memorabilia at age 14, travelling from his home town of Sligo to Dublin to purchase rare...
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| x Widad Kawar |
Widad Kawar (Arabic: وداد قعوار ) is an internationally renowned collector of Jordanian and Palestinian ethnic and cultural arts. She has amassed an extensive collection of dresses, costumes, textiles, and jewelry over the past 45 years, seeking to...
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| x Margaret Woodbury Strong |
Margaret Woodbury Strong (1897-July 16, 1969) was an American collector and philanthropist. Strong was an avid collector, especially of toys and her large collection formed the basis for the Strong National Museum of Play.
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| x Albert I, Prince of Monaco |
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Albert I, Prince of Monaco (13 November 1848 – 26 June 1922) was the tenth reigning Prince of Monaco and the tenth Duke of Valentinois from 10 September 1889 until his death.
Born Albert Honoré Charles Grimaldi on 13 November 1848 in Paris, France,...
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| x Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha |
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Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Alfred Ernest Albert; 6 August 1844 – 30 July 1900) was the third Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha reigning between 1893 and 1900. He was also a member of the British Royal Family, the second son and fourth child...
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| x Edward Denny Bacon |
Sir Edward Denny Bacon (29 August 1860 – 5 June 1938) was a British entrepreneur who dedicated himself entirely to philately after 1895. He helped the enlargement and mounting of collections possessed by rich collectors of his time. His last and...
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| x Sir Gawaine George Hope Baillie, 7th Baronet |
Sir Gawaine Baillie, 7th Bt (8 March 1934 – 21 December 2003) was an amateur motor racing driver, engineer, industrialist, stamp collector, and the owner of the ancient estate surrounding Leeds Castle, the ancient fortress in Kent. After his death,...
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| x Oscar Berger-Levrault |
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Oscar François George Berger-Levrault (May 9, 1826, in Strasbourg – September 24, 1903, in Nancy) was a French philatelist. The invention of the stamp catalogue is attributed to him and to the Englishman, John Edward Gray.
Oscar Berger-Levrault was...
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| x Jacqueline Caurat |
Jacqueline Caurat (born 23 July 1929) is a retired French television presenter and journalist.
After a film career during the 1940s and 1950's, Caurat became an in-vision continuity announcer (or speakerine) for the ORTF's first channel.
For 22...
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| x Daniel Cooper |
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Sir Daniel Cooper, 1st Baronet GCMG (1 July 1821 – 5 June 1902) was the first speaker of the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales. Also, he was a noted philatelist.
He was born at Bolton, Lancashire, England, the son of Thomas Cooper, merchant,...
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| x Jal Cooper |
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Jal Manekji Cooper, FRGS (died 1972), was an Indian philatelist, and a recognized expert and authenticator of the postage stamps and postal history of India. Cooper was also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the author of several...
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| x Henri Max Corwin |
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Henri Max Corwin (1903 – January 1962) was a Dutch businessman, philatelist and humanitarian. He became famous both for his efforts to shield Jewish victims of Nazi persecution during World War II, and later for his efforts to document instruments...
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| x Gerald Davis |
Gerald Davis (October 10, 1916 - June 16, 2005): architect, graphic designer, postal historian and philatelist. His 1971 Burma Postal History is a classic study, both readable and comprehensive.
Davis learned the basics of stamps and philately while...
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| x C. D. Desai |
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Chunnilal Devkaran Nanjee, known as "Desai", was a Twentieth century Indian commodity trader, financier, and philatelist.
Desai was a senior partner in the firm of Messrs. Devkaran Nanjee and Sons, stock, cotton, bullion and exchange brokers. He was...
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| x Sir Ernest De Silva |
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Sir Ernest de Silva (26 November 1887—9 May 1957) was a Sri Lankan business magnate, banker, barrister and public figure, considered to be the most prominent Sri Lankan philanthropist of the 20th century. A wealthy and influential polymath, he was...
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| x Edward B. Evans |
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Edward Benjamin Evans, RPS (3 November 1846 - 21 March 1922) a British army officer, also known as "Major Evans", was a distinguished philatelist, stamp collector, and philatelic journalist. His philatelic specialization included Mauritius, the...
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| x Rienk Feenstra |
Rienk Feenstra (1920--2005) was an international expert in Greek philately, writing and editing key reference books in this area, especially on the stamps and postal history of Crete.
Feenstra was Chairman of the Hellenic Philatelic Society of...
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| x David Feldman |
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David Feldman (b. Dublin, 1947) is a professional philatelist, author and auctioneer, chairman of David Feldman SA, a Geneva based philatelic auction company that has attained record prices for some of the most famous postage stamps of the world. In...
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