Career
Many Marsh covers have addresses created using addressograph plates. Oswald Marsh was not related to Victor Marsh. Born in Belfast, Marsh moved to London around 1900 where he had several addresses in the suburb of Norwood.
He also briefly had offices at 1 Exeter Street, London W1, around 1914.
Marsh appears to have started his stamp business some time after 1900. He is thanked in the preface to Herbert L"Estrange Ewen"s Priced Catalogue of the Unadhesive Postage Stamps of the United Kingdom 1840-1905 which was published in 1905 and was well established enough to publish a book by West.H. Bertram Poole in 1906.
Marsh and Ewen must have been well known to each other as Norwood stamp dealers who both had an interest in "unadhesive stamps", or cut-outs as they are now known. Marsh specialised in British and Commonwealth stamps, controls, and cut-outs from British postal stationery which adorned much of his outgoing mail.
He also ran a new issue service.
The stock was eventually dispersed through a series of sales continuing up to 2008. Oswald"s obituary was published in The Philatelic Journal, July/September 1951, p.
