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Alan D. Anyon (born 1931)Anyon, Alan & Dieter Bortfeldt. ''A different look at Colombia. Display given to The Royal Philatelic Society London 27 May 2010''. London:
About the branch.
RSPCA North West Middlesex, 2007. Retrieved 4 September 2011
Archived here.
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Alan Anyon presenting an RSPCA award in 2001.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Anyon, Alan D. 1931 births British philatelists Living people Fellows of the Royal Philatelic Society London Philately of Colombia Place of birth missing (living people)
Alan D. Anyon (born 1931)Anyon, Alan & Dieter Bortfeldt. ''A different look at Colombia. Display given to The Royal Philatelic Society London 27 May 2010''. London: The Royal Philatelic Society London
The Royal Philatelic Society London (RPSL) is the oldest philatelic society in the world. It was founded on 10 April 1869 as ''The Philatelic Society, London''. The society runs a postal museum, the Spear Museum of Philatelic History, at its ...
, 2010, p. 138. is a British philatelist and expert in the revenue stamps of Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...
. In 2009, with Dieter Bortfeldt, he published the first dedicated catalogue of Colombian revenue stamps.
Philately
Alan Anyon has been a Fellow ofThe Royal Philatelic Society London
The Royal Philatelic Society London (RPSL) is the oldest philatelic society in the world. It was founded on 10 April 1869 as ''The Philatelic Society, London''. The society runs a postal museum, the Spear Museum of Philatelic History, at its ...
since 2009. Apart from ''The Royal'', Anyon is a member of several other philatelic societies including the Revenue Society
The Revenue Society (originally ''The Revenue Society of Great Britain'') was formed in 1990 and is the only international philatelic society which covers revenue stamps of the whole world. The society is also noted for the particularly high qualit ...
, the Cinderella Stamp Club
The Cinderella Stamp Club was founded on 5 June 1959 in London, England, and is an association of philatelists, amateur and professional, whose interests lie in local stamps, telegraph stamps, railway stamps, revenue stamps, fiscals, forgeries, bo ...
and the ''Colombia-Panama Philatelic Study Group'' (COPAPHIL). His displays of provisional and revenue stamps of Colombia have received eight gold medals worldwide and he has written over seventy articles on those subjects.
Outside philately
Now retired, Anyon was formerly a medical and chemical sales manager and served on the governing Council of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) from 1995 until 2008. He was Deputy Treasurer of that society on two occasions. Anyon has been a member of his local branch of the RSPCA for almost 50 years.RSPCA North West Middlesex, 2007. Retrieved 4 September 2011
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Selected publications
*''Handbook of Colombian Revenue Stamps''. Bogota, Colombia: COLOMPHIL, Colombian Philatelic Research Society, 2009. *''A different look at Colombia. Display given to The Royal Philatelic Society London 27 May 2010''. London:The Royal Philatelic Society London
The Royal Philatelic Society London (RPSL) is the oldest philatelic society in the world. It was founded on 10 April 1869 as ''The Philatelic Society, London''. The society runs a postal museum, the Spear Museum of Philatelic History, at its ...
, 2010. (With Dieter Bortfeldt)
*"Colombia: The Postmaster's Provisional Issues." in ''The Cinderella Philatelist'', Cinderella Stamp Club
The Cinderella Stamp Club was founded on 5 June 1959 in London, England, and is an association of philatelists, amateur and professional, whose interests lie in local stamps, telegraph stamps, railway stamps, revenue stamps, fiscals, forgeries, bo ...
, Vol. 51, No. 2, April 2011, pp. 54–58. (Corrections in Vol. 51, No. 3, p. 118.)
See also
*Revenue stamps of Colombia
The first revenue stamp of Colombia was issued on 1 September 1858, Anyon, Alan D. ''Handbook of Colombian Revenue Stamps''. Bogota, Colombia: COLOMPHIL, Colombian Philatelic Research Society, 2009, p.11. one year before the first Colombian post ...
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Alan Anyon presenting an RSPCA award in 2001.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Anyon, Alan D. 1931 births British philatelists Living people Fellows of the Royal Philatelic Society London Philately of Colombia Place of birth missing (living people)