# Philip Silver

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|name                 =    Philip Silver
|birth_date           =    1910
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|death_date           =    July 1999
|death_place          =    Elberon, NJ
|education            =    BA, City College of New York
|spouse               =   Alma Mirnofsky Silver 
|parents              =   Nathan Silver, Dora Grossman Silver 
|children             =   David 
|discipline           =   Accountant 
|institutions         =   [Collectors Club of New York](/source/Collectors_Club_of_New_York)  <br/> [Philatelic Foundation](/source/Philatelic_Foundation)
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|significant_projects =    Studied and wrote extensively on [air mail stamps](/source/Aerophilately); president of [Collectors Club of New York](/source/Collectors_Club_of_New_York), and philatelic exhibition judge.
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|significant_advance  =   Discovered several First Flight stamped envelopes. 
|significant_awards   =   [Lichtenstein Medal](/source/Lichtenstein_Medal) <br/> [APS Hall of Fame](/source/APS_Hall_of_Fame) <br/> [Luff Award](/source/Luff_Award)
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'''Philip Silver''' (1910–1999), of [New York City](/source/New_York_City), was a [philatelist](/source/Philately) who specialized in the field of air mail stamps, known as [aerophilately](/source/aerophilately). He studied air mail stamps and [postal history](/source/postal_history), and wrote extensively on the subject.<ref name=APS>{{cite news|url=https://classic.stamps.org/HOF-2000#Silver|title=Philip Silver|work=[American Philatelic Society](/source/American_Philatelic_Society)|accessdate=2019-02-23}}</ref>

==Philatelic literature==
Silver co-authored “Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt Stamps of the World “(1965) with philatelist Jan Bart. He contributed to the [Scott's Specialized U.S. Catalogue](/source/Scott_catalog) as well as to the Sanabria Air Mail Catalogue. And, for a number of years, he edited ''The Aerophilatelists Annals''.<ref name=APS/>

==Philatelic activity==
At the [Collectors Club of New York](/source/Collectors_Club_of_New_York) he held every office in the club, including treasurer, secretary, vice president, president, and trustee. He participated in various capacities at numerous philatelic exhibitions, and was also a trustee of the [Philatelic Foundation](/source/Philatelic_Foundation).<ref name=APS/>

==Honors and awards==
Because of his extensive work in the field of [philately](/source/philately) and aerophilately, he received considerable recognition. He was presented with the Richard S. Bohn Memorial Award from Aero Philatelists, Inc. in 1965, the Award for Contributions to Aerophilately from the Metropolitan Air Post Society 1971, the [Lichtenstein Memorial Award](/source/Lichtenstein_Medal) in 1972, the Gatchell Literature Award from AAMS in 1978, and the FISA Medal in 1978. He signed the [Roll of Distinguished Philatelists](/source/Roll_of_Distinguished_Philatelists) in 1978 and received the [Luff Award](/source/Luff_Award) for Distinguished Philatelic Research in 1979. He was elected to the [American Philatelic Society Hall of Fame](/source/American_Philatelic_Society_Hall_of_Fame) in 2002.<ref name=APS/>

==See also==
* [Philately](/source/Philately)
* [Philatelic literature](/source/Philatelic_literature)

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Category:20th-century American people

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