Geoffrey Clive Akerman is an English philatelist. In 2001, Ackerman and Gavin H. Fryer won the Crawford Medal

Crawford Medal

The Crawford Medal is a vermeil medal awarded by the Royal Philatelic Society London for the most valuable and original contribution to the study and knowledge of philately published in book form during the relevant period....

 from The Royal Philatelic Society London for their work "The Reform of the Post Office in the Victorian Era and Its Impact on Economic and Social Activity". He has won numerous other awards for displays at stamp exhibitions.

Akerman is a fellow of the Royal Philatelic Society London and editor of the The Revenue Journal, the journal of The Revenue Society

Revenue Society

The Revenue Society was formed in 1990 and is the only international philatelic society which covers revenue stamps of the whole world...

. He is an expert on the revenue stamp

Revenue stamp

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s of Argentina and his multi-volume catalogue on those stamps has become the definitive work on the subject.

Akerman has produced books and written articles for philatelic journals, including The American Revenuer, The Revenue Journal of Great Britain, The Mainsheet, The London Philatelist

The London Philatelist

The London Philatelist was first published in January 1892 and is the journal of the Royal Philatelic Society London.It is published ten times annually and includes coverage of worldwide philatelic and postal history topics...

, Gibbons Stamp Monthly

Gibbons Stamp Monthly

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and The Great Britain Journal.

Selected publications

• Index to principal plate varieties in One Penny imperforate, Great Britain Philatelic Society, 1968.
• The plating of the half penny 1887-1900: An allocation of the printing flaws found on these issues to a series of printing plates, Great Britain Philatelic Society, London, 1970.
• The revenue stamps of Argentina (Alnis guides), Glass Slipper, York, 1994. ISBN 1858290244.
• Collecting and displaying revenue stamps, Revenue Society of Great Britain, Hitchin, 1995. ISBN 0952512300.
• Judicial Stamps of Great Britain and Pre-1922 Ireland, Revenue Society of Great Britain, Hitchin, 1997. (With Roger G.Booth) ISBN 0952512319.
• The Reform of the Post Office in the Victorian Era and Its Impact on Economic and Social Activity, Royal Philatelic Society London, 2000. ISBN 0900631368. (With Gavin H. Fryer)
• The Presentation of Revenue Stamps: Taxes and Duties in South America, The Revenue Society of Great Britain, 2002.
• The Revenue Stamps of Peru, Clive Akerman, 2nd edition, 2007. (With Herbert H. Moll)
• The Revenue Stamps of Bolivia, Clive Akerman, 2nd edition, 2010. (With Albert W. Hilchey)

The Revenue Stamps of Argentina:

• The Revenue Stamps of Argentina Vol.I, 2nd edition, 2002. (The Provinces and Municipalities of Buenos Aires)
• The Revenue Stamps of Argentina Vol.II, 1st edition, 1999. (The Provinces and Municipalities of Catamarca to Corrientes) ISBN 0952512327
• The Revenue Stamps of Argentina Vol.III, 1st edition, 2000. (The Provinces and Municipalities of Entre to Neuquen) ISBN 0952512335
• The Revenue Stamps of Argentina Vol.IV, 1st edition, 2002. (The Provinces and Municipalities of Salta to San Luis plus Santa Fe) ISBN 0952512351
• The Revenue Stamps of Argentina Vol.V, 1st edition, 2002. (The Provinces and Municipalities of Santa Fe part 2, Santiago del Estero & Tucuman) ISBN 095251236X
• Revenue Stamps of the Republic of Argentina, 1st edition, 2003. (The national issues of Argentina)

Outside philately

Clive Akerman was educated at the University of Bristol and lives in Gloucestershire, Great Britain.

External links

• Display of early revenue stamps of Peru at the Royal Philatelic Society London 24 January 2008