George Ginger

George Ginger (1863 – 29 November 1938) was a British philatelist who signed the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1934.[1] Ginger was an expert on the stamps of Victoria and prominent in philatelic circles in Manchester.

In 1930, Ginger was awarded the Tapling Medal by the Royal Philatelic Society London for his display of the Diadem stamps of New South Wales.[2]

His collection of philatelic material relating to Victoria for the period 1850 to 1883 forms part of the British Library Philatelic Collections. It was transferred from The Manchester Museum, The University of Manchester in 2006.[3]

References
  1. Background notes on The Roll of Distinguished Philatelists September 2011 Archived 11 April 2014 at WebCite, Roll of Distinguished Philatelists Trust, London, 2011.
  2. "Topical Notes", Stanley Phillips in Gibbons Stamp Monthly, August 1930, pp. 204-5.
  3. The Ginger Collection Archived 24 December 2012 at WebCite British Library, 14 August 2014.
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