Lionel Edward Dawson (1887[1]–1976[2]) was a philatelist who won the Crawford Medal from the Royal Philatelic Society London for the paper The One Anna and Two Annas Postage Stamps of India, 1854-55. He was an expert on the stamps of India and the Feudatory States and signed the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1961.[2]
Dawson was the editor of the Philatelic Journal of India from 1934 to 1944. In 1954 he delivered a paper to The Royal on "The Locally Printed Stamps of Tibet, 1912-1953" which was subsequently printed in The London Philatelist[3] and in 1955 he won the Tilleard Medal from the society for his display of Indian Feudatory States.[2]
A photograph of L.E. Dawson in a tweed jacket appears on page 2 in the catalog of his collection sold by Robson Lowe on 9 November 1966.[citation needed]
Publications
edit- The Postage Stamps of Jammu & Kashmir Simplified. Lahore: Philatelic Society of India, 1937. (With E.A. Smythies)
- The One Anna & Two Annas Postage Stamps of India, 1854-55. Birmingham: H. Garratt-Adams & Co. for the Philatelic Society of India, 1948.
- The Postage Stamps of Nepal. New York: The Collectors Club, 1952. (with E.A. Smythies and H.D.S. Haverbeck)
References
edit- ^ "Distinguished Philatelists - Further Addenda" by Wolfgang C. Hellrigl in The London Philatelist, Vol. 116, p. 188.
- ^ a b c "Who Was Who in British Philately". Association of British Philatelic Societies. 2015. Archived from the original on 2 November 2019. Retrieved 16 August 2011.
- ^ Vol. 63, pp. 30-35.
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