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Eminent Philatelists

o, I’m going to backtrack a little here, writes Devlan Kruck, because having brought you up to date with Frederick J Melville’s contribution to philately during the early to mid 1900s (see last month’s ), I was about to introduce you to James L Lindsay, the Earl of Crawford, but you can’t do that unless you at least mention John Kerr Tiffany, and by default you really shouldn’t be

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