Harry Osborne (philatelist)

The cover of British Line Engraved Stamps, Twopence Blue - Studies of Plates 1 to 15, 1948.

Harry Osborne MD, MRCS, DPH, (28 November 1875[1] – 21 June 1959[2][3]) was a British medical practitioner and philatelist who wrote several important works on classic British stamps and signed the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1954.[4]

Osborne won the Crawford Medal from the Royal Philatelic Society, London for his work on the Great Britain Twopence stamp, Plate 9.

He won a Gold Award of Honour for his stamps of Great Britain at the London International Stamp Exhibition 1950 and was also a student of the stamps of Ceylon and New South Wales.

Publications

  • The Ray Flaws of Plates 1 and 2 of the Penny Black, 1935.
  • Great Britain Twopence Plate Nine - A Study of the Plate and its Repairs, Chas. Nissen & Co., London, 1939.
  • British Line Engraved Stamps, Twopence Blue - Studies of Plates 1 to 15, H.F. Johnson, London 1948.
  • British Line Engraved Stamps - Repaired Impressions, H.F. Johnson, London, 1949.

References

  1. ^ Bateman, Robert. Stamp Collectors' Who's Who. London: Stanley Gibbons Ltd., 1960, p.66.
  2. ^ British Medical Journal, 1959.
  3. ^ "Dr. Harry Osborne" in The Times, 24 June 1959, Issue 54495, p.12.
  4. ^ Who Was Who in Philately. Archived 13 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine Association of British Philatelic Societies, 2012. Retrieved 3 October 2012.


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