George Allen Higlett (1860–1940)[1] was a Chartered Secretary and philatelist who was also a prolific philatelic author and won a gold medal for his display of Turkish stamps at the London International Stamp Exhibition in 1923.

George Higlett
Born
George Allen Higlett

1860
Died1940(1940-00-00) (aged 79–80)
NationalityBritish

Amongst Higlett's works were the humorous Higlett Booklets. Higlett also published under the pen name of Hig and G.A.H.[2]

George Higlett was appointed to the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1925.

Selected publications edit

  • Turkey - Random Notes.
  • Wonders of Navigation.
  • A Colonial Venus. (Portugal 25c SG878 stamp)
  • Olympic Football. (1924 Olympic Games)
  • Still Talking. (Costa Rica 10c SG176 stamp)
  • The Catamaran. (Fiji SG249, 251 & 257 stamps)
  • The Envious Cockroach. (Spain 15c SG781 stamp)
  • The Giraffe's Diet. (Nyassa Company 25c SG32 stamp)
  • On collecting War Stamps, Perth, 1920.
  • Gems from Jamaica, 1921. (Higlett Booklet No.5)
  • Colombia: The 1918 issue of 3 centavos: the twenty types., circa 1923.
  • Some Swedish philatelic portraits, Perth, 1924.
  • Dutch Philatelic Art, Perth, 1925.
  • Philatelic tutti-frutti (being satires on designs of postage stamps), Perth, 1928.

References edit

  1. ^ "British Philatelic Trust, Rowland Hill, promotion of "the study, research and dissemination of knowledge" about philately - UK Philately, Stamps and stamp collecting plus much, much more GB". Archived from the original on 5 March 2009. Retrieved 19 March 2009.
  2. ^ "Biographies of Philatelists and Dealers, Brian Birch, 7th Edition, 2007" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 April 2006. Retrieved 19 March 2009.

Further reading edit

  • Higlett Bijou Bibliography, Gavin Fryer, Addlestone, 1997. ISBN 0-9529178-0-7.
  • The Higlett Booklets. A bijou bibliography, Fred Melville, Perth, 1925.