Nicholas André Ambrose Argenti (15 April 1896Bateman, Robert. ''Stamp collectors' who's who''. London:

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, 1960, p. 11. – 12 April 1961) was a British stockbroker who served as a captain in the British Army during the First World War and a Squadron Leader in the Royal Air Force in the Second. He was at one time Chairman of the Nuclear Investment Company Limited.

Philately

Argenti was a noted philatelist who in 1962 was posthumously awarded the Crawford Medal by the

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for his work ''The postage stamps of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia'', published after his death. The book had been intended to include

postal history Postal history is the study of postal systems and how they operate and, or, the study of the use of postage stamps and covers and associated postal artifacts illustrating historical episodes in the development of postal systems. The term is att ...

matters but that part had not been completed by the time Argenti died, and the Royal society decided to publish the parts it had in hand. He had been elected to the society in 1936. Argenti's collection was sold by Harmer, Rooke & Co. in an auction on 7 and 8 November 1963, realising £42,214 in all."Nova Scotia stamps realize £16,810" in ''The Times'', 9 November 1963, p. 10.

Selected publications

*''The postage stamps of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.'' London:

, 1962.

References

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