‘The Philatelic Valet’

Now is an opportune moment to introduce our next legendary collector, because he helped several of the philatelists we have already featured to establish their collections as some of the world’s greatest ever stamp collections. Sir Edward Denny Bacon was a British professional philatelist and is probably best known for being the Curator of the Royal Philatelic Collection between 1913 and 1938.

And indeed it was our King of Philately, King George V, who appointed Bacon to the role, and later also honoured