Herbert L'Estrange Ewen

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A newspaper wrapper stamped with a cut-out and sent out in 1911 from the Ewen's company to Germany
The cover of an 1895 work by L'Estrange Ewen (fourth edition).

Herbert L'Estrange Ewen (1876–1912)[1] was a British stamp dealer and philatelist in Swanage, Dorset and later in Norwood, London who was an authority on railway stamps.[2]

He was the publisher of the monthly English Specialists' Journal which ran from 1895 to 1897[2] and of Ewen’s Weekly Stamp News from 1899.

According to Brian Birch, Ewen collected stamps at the age of ten and started his own firm, the H. L’Estrange Ewen company, on his thirteenth birthday.[1]

In 1949 his collection of railway letter stamps for the period 1891 to 1912 with sheets, proofs, and covers was given to the British Museum by his sister Mrs Clement Williams and is now in the British Library Philatelic Collections as the Ewen Collection.[3]

Selected publications

  • Standard Catalogue of British Stamps and Postmarks, 1st edition, 1893.
  • A Complete Priced Catalogue of the Postal and Telegraph Adhesives of Great Britain with Walter Morley and Harry Hilckes: Hilckes, Kirkpatrick & Co., London, c. 1894.
  • Standard Priced Catalogue of the Stamps and Postmarks of the United Kingdom, 1898.
  • Reference List of Railway Letter Post Stamps, 1901.
  • History of Railway Letter Stamps, 1901.
  • Priced Catalogue of Railway Letter Stamps, 1903.
  • Priced Catalogue of the Unadhesive Postage Stamps of the United Kingdom (1840–1905), Ewen's Colonial Stamp Market, London, 1905.
  • Railway Newspaper and Parcel Stamps of the United Kingdom, Ewen’s Colonial Stamp Market Ltd., 1906. (Reprint, 1983 by Tim Clutterbuck & Co.)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Birch, Brian. Biographies of Philatelists and Dealers. 9th edition. Standish, Wigan: 2008, p.504.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Who Was Who in British Philately.
  3. ↑ British Library Philatelic Collections - The Ewen Collection.

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