John Kerr Tiffany

John Kerr Tiffany ( born February 9, 1842 † March 3, 1897 ) from St. Louis, Missouri, was an early American Philatelist. In a survey from 1890, he was the second most important American Philatelist, behind John Walter Scott.

Philatelististische literature

During his student days in France, he began to collect stamps and made ​​the decision, " each printed work in the field of Philately" to collect. With this intent, he built perhaps the greatest philatelic library of that era. Based on his collection of books and other material that did not belong to him, he published in 1874 The Philatelical Library: A Catalogue of Stamp Publications ( The philatelic library: A catalog of stamp publications). He continued his cataloging philatelic literature by publishing in 1889 the book The Stamp Collector 's Library Companion (Part 1 ) ( German: Des stamp collector library attendants, Part 1)., With a supplement in 1890 as Tiffany died in 1897, his philatelic library was the largest the world and was acquired in intact by James L. Lindsay, the Earl of Crawford. Lindsay in turn donated his collection to the British Museum.

He built up a specialized stamp collection, which is focused on the collections United States and British North America. Since he lived in the area of ​​St. Louis, Missouri, he dealt with the St. Louis Postmaster Provisionals (St. Louis postmaster provisionals ) and could assign their plating. With the limited amount of copies that were at his disposal, the disk allocation was difficult, it later turned out to be true but, as more pieces of it were known. Based on his findings he wrote in 1894 a monograph entitled A St. Louis Symposium.

Tiffany released the first comprehensive handbook on stamps of the United States with the title Les timbres of the Etats-Unis d' Amerique. It was printed in three parts about 1883 and was later extended version as History of the Postage Stamps of the United States of America out.

Philatelic activities

Tiffany was founded in 1886, the first president of "American Philatelic Association " (now the American Philatelic Society ). This office he held until 1896.

Library

Tiffany's philatelic library went up in the Crawford Library and is part of the philatelic collection of the British Library today.

Awards

Tiffany was inducted into the American Philatelic Society Hall of Fame in 1941.