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

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. Association of British Philatelic Societies, 2012. Retrieved 3 October 2012.


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