S. Garton Churchill family-Lester L. Hoffman stamp collection, 1949-1952.

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S. Garton Churchill family-Lester L. Hoffman stamp collection, 1949-1952.

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Collection consists of the Universal Postal Union stamps issued by all the countries in the Union, most of them on first-day covers and many in blocks of four. Volumes of the British Empire U.P.U. stamps, the Lester L. Hoffman series of the collection, contain plate and imprint blocks (either 6, 8, 10 or 12 stamps to the block) of all the mint U.P.U. stamps issued by the British Empire and a few covers containing blocks of such stamps. The collection contains many specialities, and the Haiti section contains proofs of stamps never issued. Also includes clippings, a few photographs, and letters from stamp dealers and others concerning problems with the issuing of these stamps. The collector has put the stamps and covers into clear sleeves then fixed the sleeves onto pages. Pages have been arranged into loose-leaf volumes.

25 volumes (4 linear ft.)

Houghton Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7799573

Houghton Library

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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...

Churchill family.

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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 ...