Manfred Dobin (10 September 1925 – 25 May 2015) was a Russian

philatelic Philately (; ) is the study of postage stamps and postal history. It also refers to the collection and appreciation of stamps and other philatelic products. While closely associated with stamp collecting and the study of postage, it is possibl ...

, stamp dealer and auctioneer. He was philatelic expert on Imperial

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s, 1750–1858 of

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. Dobin became a member of the Association Internationale des Experts en Philatéle, AIEP in 1995. He was also a member of the Expert Council on Russian Philately from 1991.

Collecting interests and memberships

Dobin was a member of the Russian Union of Philatelists, the Saint Petersburg Union of Philatelists and the Grand Prix Club.

Philatelic literature

Manfred Dobin - Postmarks of the Russian Empire 1993

Manfred Dobin had access to a number of postal and related archives in Russia. He was one of the first to write a standard work on the postmarks of the Russian Empire. * Dobin, Manfred, Postmarks of Russian Empire (pre-adhesive period), Standard-Collection, Saint Petersburg (1993) * Dobin, M.A. & L.G. Ratner, From the History of the Saint-Petersburg Post, 1703–1914, Standard-Collection, Saint Petersburg (2004).

Articles in philatelic journals

The postal history of the Russian Empire is the main focus of the work of Dobin. Relating to this subject he has authored articles in '' Filateliya SSSR'' (''Philately of the USSR''), a monthly bulletin published in Moscow since 1966. "Filateliya SSSR" was an organ of the Ministry of Communications of the USSR and the (). Some of his articles were translated and published in ''

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''.

Honors and awards

Dobin was awarded a major FIP exhibition award: Russia (Grand Prix). During the Soviet period, the collection of M. A. Dobin "From the history of the postmark of

" won gold medals at the international exhibitions "Sotsfilex-83" in

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and "Sotsfileks-84" in

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. At POLSKA 93, Large Gold was awarded for his exhibition 'Postal history of Russia'.

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