About Herbert Oldfield
Lived 1859 – 1940 (aged 80–81). Herbert Oldfield was a British philatelist and solicitor.
Herbert Rooke Oldfield (1859 – 22 December 1940) was a British solicitor and philatelist who signed the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1922.
Oldfield was president of the International Philatelic Union and honorary secretary, 1895, of the Society for the Suppression of Speculative Issues. He collected India, Bolivia, Bosnia, Chinese locals and Formosa, Colombia, Persia, and Swiss Cantonals.
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Who was Herbert Oldfield?
British solicitor and philatelist (1859-1940)
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Herbert Oldfield was born in 1859.
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Herbert Oldfield died on 22 December 1940.
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Herbert Oldfield was a philatelist and solicitor.
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Herbert Oldfield was British.
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