Henry Stolow

Henry Stolow (Latvian "Henrijs Stolovs/Heinrihs Stolovs"; 1901 in Riga, Latvia – 1971) was a stamp dealer in Berlin, New York, and Munich.

Life

From 1920 to 1933 after the end of World War I Henry Stolow worked as a Stamp dealer in Berlin together with his brother Julius Stolow. In 1936 they both emigrated to Brussels and later to New York. There they founded the wholesale company " [http://www.stampnotes.com/Today_in_Postal_History/033156green2.jpeg J. and H. Stolow, Wholesale Stamp Dealers] ", which existed from the 1940s until the 1970s. With this company they worked their way up to one of the world's largest stamp wholesalers.

Henry Stolow bought important stamp collections and auctioned them by order of the customer (for example the collections of president Franklin D. Roosevelt, King Carol II of Romania, King Farouk of Egypt, Cardinal Francis Spellman, and millionaire Arthur Hind). He worked as a [http://www.rossia.com/stamps/imBoB/b42.jpgstamp inspector] too.

Henry Stolow prepared new stamp issues for postal administrations (first of all in [http://www.xs4all.nl/~dziewon/fila/isra_exp.htm Africa] ). He then bought the major part of the edition in order to resell them to other wholesalers as a monopolist. It is assumed that he ordered printing errors too (e.g. [http://www.stampnotes.com/Today_in_Postal_History/033156.htwaml Greenland overprints] ).

He was not afraid of ordering 150 stamp issues of the nonexistent country Republic South Moluccas at the Austrian Federal Print Office, and of globally merchandising these bogus stamps, which were not issued and sold by any postal administration of the Moluccas in Indonesia, harming the stamp collectors.

After World War II he returned to Germany and worked as a stamp dealer in Berlin and later in Munich. After his death his Munich stamp empire was continued under the name " [http://www.stolow.de/ Firma Henry Stolow] " by the owner " [http://www.stolow.de/assets/images/MuellerSTOLOW.gifRolf Müller] ".

Gregory Stolow, son of Julius Stolow and nephew of Henry Stolow, is a stamp dealer in the United States. [ [http://www.stampsmauritius.com/ApfelbaumPleadsGuilty.htm Apfelbaum pleads guilty to bid-rigging conspiracy ] ]

Literature

* "Briefmarken-Mauritius", Nr. 38/1971
*Ulrich 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

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