Williams, L. N.

WILLIAMS, Leon Norman 1914-1999. Law reporter.

Brothers who worked together as philatelic journalists. Edited Stamp Lover and British Philatelist, after death of Fred J Melville, and edited Cinderella Philatelist from 1961 to 1999. Pioneers of Cinderella philately, being authorities on locals, hotel posts, propaganda forgeries, and bogus issues. Wrote 'Cinderella Corner' in Stamp Magazine. They were authors of more than thirty books including 'Fundamentals of Philately', 'The Propaganda Forgeries' [1938], 'Philately - An Outline of the Elements' [1939], 'Famous Stamps' [1940], 'More Famous Stamps' [1942], 'A Melville Bibliography' [1941], 'Stamps for All' [1943], 'Forged Stamps of Two World Wars', 'Stamps Day by Day' [1950], 'Local Postage Stamps' (with Erik Hurt) [1950], 'The Postage Stamp, Its History and Recognition' [1956], 'An Airmail Collectors' Notebook' [1960], 'Hotel Posts of Hungary and Romania' [1962], 'Techniques of Philately' [1969], 'Cinderella Stamps' [1970]. Their philatelic library comprised over 3000 volumes, and when sold was purchased by Stanley Berman. LNW was President of Cinderella Stamp Club. He compiled 'The Encyclopaedia of Rare and Famous Stamps' Vol.1 1993, Vol.2 1997.

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