Henry Stolow

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Henry Stolow ( Latvian Henrijs Stolovs , Heinrihs Stolovs ; born July 25, 1901 in Riga , Russian Empire , † April 9, 1971 in Celerina , Canton of Graubünden , Switzerland ) was a stamp dealer in Berlin , New York and Munich .

Life

After the end of the First World War , Henry Stolow and his brother Julius Stolow worked as a stamp dealer in Berlin from 1920 to 1933 . Both emigrated to Brussels in 1936 and later to New York . There they founded the wholesale company J. and H. Stolow, Wholesale Stamp Dealers on Fifth Avenue , which existed from the 1940s to the 1970s. With this company they became one of the largest stamp wholesalers in the world.

Henry Stolow bought important stamp collections and auctioned them on behalf of customers (for example the collections of President Franklin D. Roosevelt , King Charles II of Romania, King Faruk of Egypt, Cardinal Francis Spellman and millionaire Arthur Hind ). He also worked worldwide as a stamp inspector .

Henry Stolow prepared new issues of postage for postal administrations (especially in Africa). From these new editions he bought most of the circulation in order to then sell them as a monopoly to other wholesalers. It is believed that he also commissioned misprints , such as the overprint stamps (for the liberation of Denmark in May 1945) in Greenland.

He also did not shy away from commissioning 150 stamp issues of the non-existent country Republic of Maluku Selatan from the Austrian State Printing Office Vienna and marketing these fraudulent issues, which were not issued and sold by any postal administration in the Moluccas in Indonesia , to the detriment of stamp collectors worldwide .

After the Second World War he returned to Germany and worked as a stamp dealer in Berlin and later in Munich . After his death, his stamp empire was founded in Munich under the name of the company Henry Stolow by the owner Rolf Müller at the address Schrammerstr. 3, 80333 Munich . In 2016 the shop was given up.

Gregory Stolow , son of Julius Stolow and nephew of Henry Stolow , is a stamp dealer in the USA.

literature

  • Postage stamp Mauritius , No. 38/1971
  • Ullrich Häger: Großes Lexikon der Philatelie , Bertelsmann Lexikon-Verlag, Gütersloh-Berlin-Munich-Vienna 1973 (p. 275 Maluku Selatan , p. 449 Henry Stolow ).
  • FFE 7 p. 58

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Order with letterhead from J. and H. Stolow, Wholesale Stamp Dealers
  2. ↑ Stamp certified by Stolow (illustration) ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rossia.com
  3. ↑ Rein Bakhuizen van den Brink: De Postwaardenproductie in Israel: Postzegel-export ( Memento of the original of March 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Dutch)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.xs4all.nl
  4. ↑ pressure marks from Greenland (Engl.)
  5. ↑ Imprint of the website stolow.de
  6. ^ Picture by Rolf Müller
  7. ↑ http://www.stampsx.com/forum/topic.php?id=10161&page=1˖ Message in a forum
  8. ↑ stampsmauritius.com: Apfelbaum pleads guilty to bid-rigging conspiracy
personal data
SURNAME Stolow, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latvian stamp dealer in Berlin, New York and Munich
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1971
Place of death Celerina , Canton of Graubünden , Switzerland