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The Collecting Philatelist: Josiah K Lilly Jnr (1893 - 1966)

Our next instalment of philatelic greatness is a man whose collection was as monumental as many of the stamp legends we have already highlighted, such as Ferrary, Hind and Caspary. Josiah K Lilly Jnr, writes Devlan Kruck.

American philatelist Josiah K Lilly Jnr amassed a collection that took ten gigantic sales over nearly two years to dispose of. It included some of the rarest

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