Jean-Pierre Mangin
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Jean-Pierre Mangin (born 26 October 1937) is a French philatelist specialized in finding error in the design of postage stamps. He wrote a bilingual world guide of Errors on stamps.
Member of the French Académie de philatélie since 4 June 1994, he presides the European Academy of Philately for a 2000-2007 mandate.
He currently writes a monthly column in French magazine L'Écho de la timbrologie about errors on stamps found by the readers.
[edit] Books
- With René Geslin, Le Cycle et la Poste, 1988. About the importance of bicycle in the mail distribution in France and stamps of this thematic collection.
- Guide mondial des timbres erronés. Errors on stamps, ed. Yvert ; book 1, 1999, ISBN 2-86814-105-6 ; book 2, 2005.
