Emanuel Joseph Lee (died 1941)[1] was a philatelist who was a specialist in the stamps of Uruguay.
Philately
editLee specialised in the stamps of Uruguay. In 1933, he was awarded the Crawford Medal by the Royal Philatelic Society London for his work The postage stamps of Uruguay.[2] Lee was such an enthusiastic collector of Uruguay that he was once called "the man who killed Uruguay" because during his philatelic career he acquired virtually everything important from Uruguay that came on the market.[3] His Grand-Prix winning Uruguay collection was sold by Plumridge & Co., London, in 1936.
Selected publications
edit- The postage stamps of Uruguay. London: M. Harvey, 1931.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Who Was Who in British Philately". Association of British Philatelic Societies. 2012. Archived from the original on 13 July 2011. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
- ^ The Society's medals and honorary fellowship. The Royal Philatelic Society London, 2009, p. 2.
- ^ "The Spell of the 'Suns'" by Nils Farnstrom in The London Philatelist, Vol. LXVIII, No. 798, May 1959, pp. 94-95.
Further reading
edit- Uruguay, The Grand Prix Collection Formed by Mr. E.J. Lee. London: Plumridge & Co., 1936.