Tomas Bjäringer HFRPSL is a Swedish

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who was added to the

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in 1978.
Background notes on The Roll of Distinguished Philatelists September 2011
', Roll of Distinguished Philatelists Trust, London, 2011
Archived here.
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's special representative for France. He is a specialist in the philately of Sweden, particularly the fakes and forgeries of that country. He also collects early

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. Bjäringer is a director of the Ringström Museum för Filateli.Board of Directors and Auditors.
Ringström Museum för Filateli. Retrieved 23 March 2015.

Selected publications

*''Vad Portot kan Berätta om Brevens Väg: Demonstration av Några Långväga Försändelser''. Stockholm: Tomas Bjäringer, 1969. *''Swedish letter rates to foreign destinations 1855-1895''. Trelleborg: Skogs boktr., cop. 1986. (With Jan Billgren, Louis H Stone, Yngve Hellström, Vello Kallas.)

References

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