Edward Stanley Gibbons

Edward Stanley Gibbons ( born June 21, 1840 in Plymouth, † February 17, 1913 in Kensington, London) was a famous English philatelist named after him company Stanley Gibbons Ltd.. founded.

Edward Stanley Gibbons was the youngest son of William Gibbons, a pharmacist, and his wife Elisabeth Long Ride. In his year of birth, the output of the world's first stamps, the Penny Black was. After his education in Halloran's ' Collegiate establishment he worked for several weeks as a clerk in the local Navel Bank. Then he helped his father out in the pharmacy.

A year later, in 1856, Edward Stanley Gibbons finally opened his own small stamp act in the pharmacy of his father, after he had been interested in for quite some time for collecting stamps. Finally, in 1863, he came into possession of numerous rare triangle marks from the Cape of Good Hope. He bought two bags of these stamps for just £ 5 of two sailors who had won this in Cape Town. Edward Stanley Gibbons could resell these stamps for an incredible £ 500. This gave impetus to the professional action to begin with stamps.

Edward Stanley Gibbons expanded its small stamp act and was from 1865 even has its own stamp catalog out. The Stanley Gibbons catalog will be published today and is the oldest still published stamp catalog in the world.

After the death of his father in 1867 he took over his business. In 1872 he sold it, however, and entertained the next two years a larger stamp act in Plymouth. During this time he also published his own stamp albums. In 1874 it finally pulled the successful businessman to London, where he also opened a stamp business. There he began with the monthly output of philatelic magazine " Gibbons Stamp Monthly".

In 1890 he eventually sold his company for £ 25,000 and took numerous trips. Finally, he died on 17 February 1913 in London.