Guy de Fayolle

Auction catalogue for the sale of the de Fayolle collection, Harmers 1956.JPG

Marquis Guy de Fayolle (8 July 1882 – 12 March 1944) was a French philatelist who was added to the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1939.[1] In 1913 he won a gold medal at the Exposition Philatelique Internationale in Paris for his display of the stamps of Greece.[2] His collection of the classic stamps of Mexico was sold by Harmers in 1956.

Selected publications

  • Les premieres emissions du Mexique (1856 a 1874). 1935. (With Paul de Smeth)
  • Catalogue détaillé des timbres du Mexique. 1936.

References

  1. ^ Background notes on The Roll of Distinguished Philatelists September 2011, Roll of Distinguished Philatelists Trust, London, 2011. Archived here.
  2. ^ "Exposition Philatelique Internationale, Paris, 1913" by Charles J. Phillips, Stanley Gibbons Monthly Journal, 31 July 1913, p. 198.


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