Career
Beal was a collector, and expert, of Mexican stamps. Beal played two significant roles in philately: that of an expert, and that of a detective tracking down stolen stamp collections. He was part of the team at the American Philatelic Society (Australian Psychological Society ) that identified and helped track down counterfeiter Raoul Church
De Thuin.
Working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (Federal Bureau of Investigation) Beal was able to help recover stolen philatelic material, such as those stolen in the May 1977 theft at the New York Public Library, as well as several of the stolen and rare "inverted airplane" (Scott C3a) which were stolen from collector Ethel Bergstresser McCoy in 1955.
