Robert Blake Yardley

Robert Blake Yardley (1858–1943)[1] was a British Barrister and philatelist who signed the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1921.[2] He was a member of the Yardley soap manufacturing family.

Yardley's worldwide collection was auctioned by H.R. Harmer over sixteen days in 1944–45.[2]

Publications
  • The Dies of the Postage Stamps of Portugal of the Reigns of Dona Maria II and Dom Pedro V. 1907.
  • The Samoa Express Postage Stamps. 1916.
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gollark: Adverts are currently evil and will get increasingly bad as people begin to realize that advertising may not actually be as effective as is hoped and the adtech industry tries to squeeze blood out of a stone by frantically scooping up more and more data.
gollark: More predictions: people will continue to try and get rid of plastic straws and do other such entirely ineffective stuff because environment.
gollark: Ice, yes.
gollark: Seems like we're going for Mars first, sadly.

References
  1. Background notes on The Roll of Distinguished Philatelists September 2011, Roll of Distinguished Philatelists Trust, London, 2011. Archived here.
  2. Who Was Who in British Philately, Association of British Philatelic Societies, 2014. Retrieved 29 April 2014. Archived here.


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