Álvaro Bonilla Lara

Álvaro Bonilla Lara.

Álvaro Bonilla Lara (3 November 1903 - 1988)[1] won the Lichtenstein Medal in 1965.[2] He was a lawyer by profession.[3] Bonilla Lara was a member of the Society of Costa Rica Collectors and an expert on the revenue stamps of Costa Rica. In 1998, his History of the Revenue Stamps of Costa Rica (1870-1970) was updated by Héctor R. Mena and Oscar C. Rohrmoser as the Costa Rica Revenue Stamp Catalogue (ISBN 0964524767).

Bonilla Lara was twice President of La Federación Interamericana de Filatelia[4] and joined the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1967.[5]

Selected publications

A fuller listing of articles by Bonilla Lara on Costa Rican revenue philately may be found in Riley's Fiscal Philatelic Literature Handbook, June 1997.

See also

References

  1. Background notes on The Roll of Distinguished Philatelists September 2011, Roll of Distinguished Philatelists Trust, London, 2011. Archived here.
  2. Lichtenstein Award. Collectors Club of New York, 2011.
  3. Alfaro, Fernán Pacheco (2008) History of the Municipal Revenue Stamps of Costa Rica. Fernán Pacheco Alfaro: Santo Tomás de Santo, Costa Rica, p. 2.
  4. FIAF ASSEMBLIES and their PRESIDENTS 1968 - 2011. FIAF, 16 February 2012. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
  5. "1967 Congress Honours" in The London Philatelist, Vol. 76, 1967, p. 100.


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