Jean-Pierre Mangin

Jean-Pierre Mangin (born 26 October 1937) is a French philatelist specialized in finding error in the design of postage stamps. He wrote a bilingual world guide of Errors on stamps.

Member of the French Académie de philatélie between 4 June 1994 and its voted eviction in December 2005. He presided the European Academy of Philately for a 2000-2007 mandate, but was evicted there too after his resign to the Presidency.[1] The same happened at the Réal Academia Hispanica de Philatelia.[2]

On 26 October 2007, he became a founding member of the Académie mondiale de philatélie whose he was the first president.[3]

In the 2000s, he wrote a monthly column in French magazine L'Écho de la timbrologie about errors on stamps found by the readers.

Books

Notes and references

  1. News on Ma philatélie by Claude Jamet, 7 June 2007 ; retrieved 8 June 2007.
  2. Biographical note, Académie de philatélie, updated 19 June 2007 ; retrieved 29 October 2007.
  3. Pierre Jullien, « Académie de philatélie… Vous avez dit "mondiale"? », Philatélie au quotidien, 6 December 2007 ; retrieved on 16 September 2009.
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