Joseph L. Ross is a
philatelist who has specialised in the
revenue stamps of South America. Ross has also been a prolific philatelic author, compiling or updating a large number of revenue
stamp catalogues and writing numerous articles in philatelic journals. His catalogue of Uruguay revenues, for instance, is the first since
Forbin's world catalogue of 1915 and starts where that one finished.
In 2008, Ross won 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 ...
Research Medal.
[''Programme for 2014'', The Revenue Society, 2013.]
Selected publications
*''The revenue stamps of El Salvador''. Elverta, California: Joe Ross, 1994. (Editor)
*''Panama telegraph stamps''. 2000. (With Federico Brid)
*''The revenue stamps of Iraq''. Joe Ross, third edition 2002. (With Avo Kaplanian and John Powell)
*''The revenue stamps of Qatar''. 2003.
*''The revenue stamps of Jordan & the Occupied Territory (West Bank)''. 2004. (With Avo Kaplanian)
*''The revenue stamps of Uruguay Patente de Rodados de Departamento de Montevideo Vehicle Registration Department of Montevideo 1928-1963''. Elverta, California: Joe Ross, 2005.
*''Panama revenues, Papel Sellado 1821-1975''. 2008.
*''Revenue stamps: The Republic of Uruguay 1915-2005''. Elverta, California: Joe Ross, 2012.
*''The revenue stamps of Liberia''. Lydbrook, Glos:
The Revenue Society, 2012. (With
Clive Akerman and Bryant E. Korn)
References
External links
Revenues - Tracción a Sangre - Pulled by Blood by Joe Ross.
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American philatelists
Revenue stamps
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