J. Schmidt-Andersen

Johannes Schmidt-Andersen (died March 1976)^[1] was a Danish philatelist who in 1952 was awarded the Crawford Medal by the Royal Philatelic Society London for his work The postage stamps of Denmark 1851-1951.^[2] Gibbons Stamp Monthly called him "the Father of Danish philately".^[3] He signed the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1950.^[4]

Selected publications

The postage stamps of Denmark 1851-1951. Copenhagen: The General Directorate of the Royal Danish Post Office, 1951. (Translated from the original Danish manuscript by Roland King-Farlow)

References

↑ "Membership" in The London Philatelist, Vol. 85, No. 1005-1006, September-October 1976, p. 170.
↑ The Society's medals and honorary fellowship. The Royal Philatelic Society London, 2009, p. 3.
↑ "The 32nd Philatelic Congress of Great Britain" in Gibbons Stamp Monthly, June 1950, p. 118.
↑ Background notes on The Roll of Distinguished Philatelists September 2011, Roll of Distinguished Philatelists Trust, London, 2011. Archived here.

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