Adriaan Marie Anne van der Willigen (26 February 1910,
The Hague
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– 29 May 1986, The Hague) was a Dutch
philatelist
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who was added to the
Roll of Distinguished Philatelists
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in 1973. He had a master's degree in economics and was a civil servant at the
Ministry of Economic Affairs.
Adriaan Marie Anne van der Willigen
at the KNBF website
References
1910 births
1986 deaths
Dutch philatelists
Fellows of the Royal Philatelic Society London
Signatories to the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists
People from The Hague
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