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Indian RPSL Member

VALLANCEY, Francis Hugh 1879-1950. Schoolmaster. Served in Boer War. Philatelic publisher. Proprietor and editor of Stamp Collecting and Stamp Trade Advertiser. With FA Wickhart founded, in 1912, London Philatelic Club. Great Britain specialist, particularly postmarks. Co-author, with SAR Oliver, of 'The Postage Stamps of Great Britain 1840-1922' [1923]. Author of 'British Postmarks with Special Reference to the 1844 and Subsequent Numbered Obliterations' [1935], 'Check List of British Photogravure Stamps of King George V, including stamps overprinted for Morocco' [1939], 'The Postage Stamps of King Edward VIII', and 'British Stamps Perforated with Firms' Initials'. Compiled 'A Guide to Philatelic Literature' [1927-29]. His entire stock of philatelic literature and premises in London destroyed by enemy action in 1941. His Great Britain auctioned by Robson Lowe, 1942. Business purchased by Ramsay Stewart, of Edinburgh, 1948. His residual philatelic literature library donated to Royal Commonwealth Society.