Herbert L'Estrange Ewen (1876–1912) was a British stamp dealer and philatelist in Swanage

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, Dorset

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 and later in Norwood

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, London

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 who was an authority on railway stamp

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He was the publisher of the monthly English Specialists' Journal which ran from 1895 to 1897 and of Ewen’s Weekly Stamp News from 1899.

According to Brian Birch, Ewen collected stamps at the age of ten and started his own firm, the H. L’Estrange Ewen company, on his thirteenth birthday.

In 1949 his collection of railway letter stamps for the period 1891 to 1912 with sheets, proofs, and covers was given to the British Museum

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 by his sister Mrs Clement Williams and is now in the British Library Philatelic Collections

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Selected publications

• Standard Catalogue of British Stamps and Postmarks, 1st edition, 1893.
• A Complete Priced Catalogue of the Postal and Telegraph Adhesives of Great Britain with Walter Morley
  Walter Morley
  Walter Morley was a pioneering English philatelist, stamp dealer and philatelic author.The first address known for Morley is 186 West Green Road, Tottenham, London N. In 1898 his address is given as 15 Brownhill Gardens, Hither Green, Catford, London S.E...
  
  and Harry Hilckes: Hilckes, Kirkpatrick & Co., London, c1894.
• Standard Priced Catalogue of the Stamps and Postmarks of the United Kingdom, 1898.
• Reference List of Railway Letter Post Stamps, 1901.
• History of Railway Letter Stamps, 1901.
• Priced Catalogue of Railway Letter Stamps, 1903.
• Priced Catalogue of the Unadhesive Postage Stamps of the United Kingdom (1840–1905), Ewen's Colonial Stamp Market, London, 1905.
• Railway Newspaper and Parcel Stamps of the United Kingdom, Ewen’s Colonial Stamp Market Ltd., 1906. (Reprint, 1983 by Tim Clutterbuck & Co.)

External links

• Profile at "Who Was Who in British Philately" Archive here