I have many fond memories, but the best at the moment was the time Tony, Wade Saade and I sat at Eric Jackson's table just shooting the breeze and discussing some individual postal history items, parcel post postage due covers among them.
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Was Tony a poster on this board ?
No, not that I am aware of but here was mention on the board many times when John Becker or I answered US postal history rating questions.
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What was his interest ?
Tony had an interest in astronomy such that he earned a Ph.D. Following that he went to medical school, became a radiologist, an MD specializing diagnostic imaging for diagnosis and treatment of illness at Kaiser Hospital in Portland, Oregon. Now if you asked him if he was the specialist to see if you hit your head and saw stars you would get a stern look. He also had
in an interest in making US postal history information, post 1-1-1872 available, after compiling it himself and at times with others, as articles as well as massive books and then, in step with the 21st Century, available in an electronic version. Of course he had a great interest in family, his wife, children and beyond.
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Was he a collector ,a exhibitor, a writer ,a author....
Yes to all as well as a columnist for Linn's Stamp News, a philatelic judge and lecturer.
He was a friend since around 1993 when he was down in Berkeley California to visit his daughter and came to my home. We discussed rates, liberties, life and converted a phone friendship into an in person friendship which lasted until 7-11-2023. While I supplied illustrations for some of his books, I who never sell anything, parted with my $5 Hamilton Liberty cover (the first discovered at the dealer in Texas--predating Austin Roland's first published find--as proven by date my check was cashed). Much later I sold (gave really) a Liberty tag (several attached together to make one) with many, many 50 cent liberties. I bought a group of items with that in it just for Tony as well as the few other items which suited my interests, The majority went to a show dealer. Afterwards, Tony, not once but twice, found me to say, the tag was far better and then far, far better than he first thought. Why did I sell it and at the price of under $20? My answer: I did it as a thank you to you.
At the winter APS show in Reno,. NV, Tony showed me an item USPOD Form 2918 and asked if I had ever seen one with postage due collected. My answer was yes, but I did not buy it all those years ago because I did not yet understand how good it was. In his Award winning postage due exhibit he showed the two he had mentioning that he knew of only three such examples. Alas, I was unable to tell Tony I now owned both having just purchased them four days prior to his death. I too was unable to let him know how happy they made me knowing he had found them.
Posted 07/12/2023 9:46 pm
