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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 37. Chapters: Stanley Gibbons, David Feldman, Nicholas F. Seebeck, Edward Stanley Gibbons, Clive Feigenbaum, Madame Joseph, Walter Morley, Armand Rousso, Patricia A. Kaufmann, Robson Lowe, Herbert Edgar Weston, Mount Brown, Nassau... Viac o knihe

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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 37. Chapters: Stanley Gibbons, David Feldman, Nicholas F. Seebeck, Edward Stanley Gibbons, Clive Feigenbaum, Madame Joseph, Walter Morley, Armand Rousso, Patricia A. Kaufmann, Robson Lowe, Herbert Edgar Weston, Mount Brown, Nassau Street, Jean-Baptiste Moens, Charles James Phillips, Fritz Billig, Edwin Müller, Alfred Forbin, Henry Stolow, Henry Ellis Harris, Raymond Henry Weill, John Walter Scott, Leo August, John N. Luff, Herman Herst, Jr., Carl Einar Pelander, Stamp dealer, Charles Nissen, Bertram William Henry Poole, Eugene N. Costales, Adam K. Bert, Charles Haviland Mekeel, Julius Murray Bartels, Johnny Johnson, Philip Mathias Wolsieffer, Edward Boker Sterling, George Ward Linn, Philip Henry Ward Jr., George Benedict Sloane, Oswald Marsh, Eugene Klein, William Penn Brown, S. Kellogg Stryker, Walter Stone Scott, Pierre Yvert, Irwin M. Heiman, Jacques Minkus, Robert A. Siegel, Lester George Brookman, Nicolas Sanabria, Jal Cooper, Peter G. Keller, Prescott Holden Thorp, Roger G. Weill, Ezra Danolds Cole, Passage des Panoramas, Ronald Alcock, Sidney F. Barrett, Florida Stamp Dealers Association, Hugh C. Barr, Percy Gray Doane, Mystic Stamp Company, American Stamp Dealers Association, Pierre Mahé, Béla Székula, Philatelic auction. Excerpt: The Stanley Gibbons Group plc is a company quoted on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange and which specialises in the retailing of collectable postage stamps and similar products. The group is incorporated in Jersey but with offices in London, Ringwood in Hampshire and Guernsey. The company is a major stamp dealer and philatelic publisher. The company's philatelic subsidiary, Stanley Gibbons Limited, has a royal warrant from Queen Elizabeth II. The company has a long corporate history, having started as a sole trader business owned by Edward Stanley Gibbons in 1856 and now being a quoted company with a number of subsidiaries. The business started when, employed as an assistant in his father's pharmacy shop in Plymouth, Gibbons set up a counter selling stamps. In 1863 he was fortunate enough to purchase from two sailors a sackful of rare Cape of Good Hope triangular stamps. In 1874 Gibbons moved to a house near Clapham Common in South London and in 1876 he moved again to Gower Street in Bloomsbury near the British Museum. By 1890 Stanley Gibbons wished to retire and the business was sold to Charles Phillips for £25,000. Phillips became Managing Director, with Gibbons as Chairman. In 1891 a shop was opened at 435 Strand in addition to the Gower Street premises, and in 1893 the shop and offices were amalgamated at 391 The Strand where the company's retail premises remained for many years until they moved to 399 The Strand. Stanley Gibbons colour guide stamps printed by Perkins Bacon A new issue department was opened in 1906. In 1914 the company received a Royal Warrant from George V. In 1956 the company celebrated its centenary with an exhibition at the Waldorf Hotel opened by Sir John Wilson. In 1967 the firm expanded into the United States in a joint venture with Whitman Publishing. A magazine and catalogues were produced. In 1968 the previously privately held Stanley Gibbons Limited was floated on the stock market through a tender ar

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