Theodor Buhl
Theodor August Buhl (baptised August Theodor Buhl; 16 May 1865 – 11 October 1922)[1] was a British stamp dealer in London who published Stamp News, which he also edited until 1895.
Buhl was born in Frankfurt, the eldest of six children of music professor/composer Carl Friedrich August Buhl (anglicised to Charles Frederick Augustus Buhl) and Sophie Friederike (Sophia Frederica), née De Barÿ.[2] The family emigrated when he was a small child,[3] settling in Lambeth, London.[4]
In 1890, Buhl was offered the business of Stanley Gibbons, who was retiring, but declined it as too expensive at £20,000. It was subsequently sold to Charles Phillips for £25,000.[5] In 1892, he bought the business of Pemberton, Wilson & Co (London), and with it the rights to The Philatelic Record which he later merged with Stamp News.[6] In the same year he was a witness at the trial of Bernhardt Assmus.[7] Buhl kept a general stock but specialised in the stamps of South America and Messrs. Buhl and Co., Limited sponsored a Gold Medal for the best collection of the stamps of Peru at the London Philatelic Exhibition of 1897.[8]
Publications[edit]
- The Stamp News Annual (various years)
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Occasional Notes" in The London Philatelist, Vol. XXXI, No. 370, October 1922, p. 260.
- ^ Hesse, Germany, Births, 1851-1901
- ^ UK, Naturalisation Certificates and Declarations, 1870-1916
- ^ 1881 England Census
- ^ "2422. Western Australia Convict Stamps" by Brian J. Birch in The Bulletin, British Society of Australian Philately, Vol. 66, No. 5, October 2011, p. 103.
- ^ Who Was Who in British Philately, Association of British Philatelic Societies, 2010. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
- ^ "Occasional Notes" in The London Philatelist, Vol. I, No. 1, January 1892, pp. 27-32.
- ^ "Occasional Notes" in The London Philatelist, Vol. VI, No. 63, March 1897, p. 67.
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