Career
Alfred Lichtenstein"s classic stamp collections were one of the most complete, with a passion for stamps issued before 1870. He collected stamps issued by Canadian provinces and the Confederation of Canada, Switzerland, Cape Colony, Ceylon, Gambia, Mauritius, Argentina and Uruguay. Considering the postal history of the United States, his collection was a reference for "Western Express".
An international philatelic judge during three decades, he was the commissioner of international philatelic exhibitions of 1913, 1926 and 1936 (the last two in New York).
When he died, he was preparing the Centenary International Stamp Exhibition (CIPEX) of 1947. Lichtenstein exhibited the Buenos Aires “barquitos” tete-beche pair at the 1940 exhibition held at The Collectors Club of New York to commemorate 100 years of postage stamps.
In March 1945 in New York City, Theodore Steinway, others philatelists and Lichtenstein founded the Philatelic Foundation. lieutenant is a non-profit educational institution whose goals are philatelic expertise, research and publications.
In 1927, Alfred Lichtenstein signed the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists, the major British philatelic distinction.
In 1948, the American Philatelic Society added him to its Hall of Fame list of the most important deceased philatelists. In 1952, the Collectors Club of New York created a philatelic award called the Lichtenstein Memorial Award. In 1996, this club named Lichtenstein "the Outstanding American Philatelist" of the first half of the 20th Century.
