Tevfik Kuyas (1916–1989) was a Turkish philatelist who was added to the

Roll of Distinguished Philatelists The Roll of Distinguished Philatelists (RDP) is a Philately, philatelic award of international scale, created by the Philatelic Congress of Great Britain in 1921. The Roll consists of five pieces of parchment to which the signatories add their n ...

in 1980. Kuyas was 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 he ...

's special representative for Turkey. He assembled a leading collection of Turkish Tughra stamps from the Brandt, Broadbeck, and

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collections.David Feldman S.A. (2013)
Ottoman Empire/Turkey The "Sultan" Collection of the Tughra Issues (Part I) (Formerly the Kuhut Alanyali collection)
'. Geneva: David Feldman S.A. p. 118.

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*http://www.istanbulfilateli.com/hakkimizda.html Signatories to the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists 1916 births 1989 deaths Turkish philatelists Fellows of the Royal Philatelic Society London {{Philatelist-stub