Juhani Veijo Olamo ( – 1 September 2010) was a Finnish
philatelist
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who was appointed to the
Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1997 and was a Fellow of the
Royal Philatelic Society London
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.
He was an expert on the postage stamps of
Finland
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and the
revenue stamps of
Ecuador
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. He was the first president of the Revenue Commission of the
Fédération Internationale de Philatélie.
["FIP Recognition", '' The Cinderella Philatelist'', Vol. 37, No. 1, January 1997, p. 7.]
Publications
*''Finish Philatelic Literature'', 1979–82. (A bibliography in five parts)
*''The Finnish Tete-Beches 1865-1885'', 1985.
*''The Revenue Stamps of Ecuador'', YLE, Monistuspalvelu, Helsinki, 1994.
*''Postal Censorship in Finland 1914-17''.
*''Finnish Postal Cancellations of the two-ring type''.
See also
*
Postage stamps and postal history of Finland
References
External links
A photograph of Juhani Olamo.
1940 births
2010 deaths
Fellows of the Royal Philatelic Society London
Philately of Finland
Philately of Ecuador
Revenue stamps
Signatories to the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists
Finnish philatelists
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