Jean-Pierre Mangin (born 26 October 1937) is a French
philatelist
Philately (; ) is the study of postage stamps and postal history. It also refers to the collection and appreciation of stamps and other philatelic products. Philately involves more than just stamp collecting or the study of postage; it is possi ...
who specialized in finding
error in the design of
postage stamp
A postage stamp is a small piece of paper issued by a post office, postal administration, or other authorized vendors to customers who pay postage (the cost involved in moving, insuring, or registering mail), who then affix the stamp to the fa ...
s. He wrote a bilingual world guide of ''Errors on stamps''.
Mangin was a member of the French
Académie de philatélie
The ''Académie de philatélie'' (Academy of Philately in English) is a French philatelic voluntary association created in 1928. Its goal is to promote philately and philatelic studies.
The Académie's headquarters is hosted in La Poste's Museum ...
between 4 June 1994 and his voted eviction in December 2005. He was president of the
European Academy of Philately for a 2000-2007 mandate, but resigned and was evicted there as well. The same happened at the Réal Academia Hispanica de Philatelia.
On 26 October 2007, he became a founding member of the Académie Mondiale de Philatélie, and became its first president.
In the 2000s, he wrote a monthly column in the French magazine ''
L'Écho de la timbrologie
''L'Écho de la timbrologie'' is a French monthly magazine about philately and stamp collecting. First published in 1887, it is the French oldest surviving philatelic publication. Its subtitle is "La tribune des philatélistes" (the philatelist ...
'' about errors on stamps found by the readers.
Books
* With René Geslin, ''Le Cycle et la Poste'', 1988. About the importance of bicycle in the mail distribution in France and stamps of this thematic collection.
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Notes and references
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French philatelists
1937 births
Living people