Alan D. Anyon

An 1882 stamp of the Barranquilla private post of Octavio Mora, about which Alan Anyon has written.

Alan D. Anyon (born 1931) is a British philatelist and expert in the revenue stamps of Colombia. In 2009, with Dieter Bortfeldt, he published the first dedicated catalogue of Colombian revenue stamps.

Philately Alan Anyon has been a Fellow of The Royal Philatelic Society London since 2009. Apart from The Royal, Anyon is a member of several other philatelic societies including the Revenue Society, the Cinderella Stamp Club, and the Colombia-Panama Philatelic Study Group (COPAPHIL). His displays of provisional and revenue stamps of Colombia have received eight gold medals worldwide and he has written over seventy articles on those subjects.

Selected publications Handbook of Colombian Revenue Stamps. Bogota, Colombia: COLOMPHIL, Colombian Philatelic Research Society, 2009. A different look at Colombia. Display given to The Royal Philatelic Society London 27 May 2010. London: The Royal Philatelic Society London, 2010. (With Dieter Bortfeldt) "Colombia: The Postmaster's Provisional Issues." in The Cinderella Philatelist, Cinderella Stamp Club, Vol. 51, No. 2, April 2011, pp. 54–58. (Corrections in Vol. 51, No. 3, p. 118.)