Roll of Distinguished Philatelists

Raymond Todd, OAM FRPSL

Raymond Todd is an Australian philatelist, who is very well-known in both the Postal Stationery and Airmail disciplines and has formed many high standard collections of both. In the stationery field these have included Sweden, Bolivia, Haiti, Paraguay and Chile and in the airmail, Western Australia and India.

He co-authored the monograph The Postal Stationery of Paraguay in 2006, the major article “Via U.S.A. Airmail” from Australia recently and The Postal Stationery of Haiti is expected in 2011. He is a founder member of the Australian Philatelic Federation and was until 9 October 2010, Vice-President of FIP.

He has been a member of twenty FIP International juries and was President of the Jury for Pacific Explorer 2005. Raymond’s great organisational skill and his work for Australian and world philately in general has been outstanding and, although it has somewhat curtailed his opportunities for display, it was recognised in 2010 by the award of the Order of Australia Medal in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.