S. Garton Churchill papers on Churchill-Hoffman U.P.U. stamp collection, 1952-1953.

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S. Garton Churchill papers on Churchill-Hoffman U.P.U. stamp collection, 1952-1953.

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Includes appraisal documents compiled by Walter A. Warner of the philatelic dealer Frank Warner (New York), letters, and transmittal forms, mostly in typescript format. Also includes a document written by S. Garton Churchill explaining the history of the stamp collection.

1 box (.5 linear ft.)

Houghton Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7799551

Houghton Library

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Warner, Walter A.

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Hoffman, Lester F.

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Churchill, S. Garton

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Seymour Garton Churchill was born in Bellefontaine, Ohio in 1900 and graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University (B.A. 1922) and Harvard Law School (1926). He spent most of his legal career at the firm of Loeb, Churchill & Lawther in Manhattan. He began playing competitive bridge in 1928 and became one of the great American bridge players and bridge theorists. In the introduction to the papers in bMS Am 2599, Churchill states that for over twenty years he had been collec...

Universal Postal Union.

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The Centenary of the Universal Postal Union was celebrated on 9 October 1974 and many postal administrations issued special postage stamps to commemorate the occasion. The Union produced a limited number of souvernir stamp albums to bring together all these stamps. Complimentary copies were provided to each member country. From the description of Stamp albums [manuscript]. 1975. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225841676 ...