Career
He was usually known as Stanley B. Ashbrook. Ashbrook was primarily interested in classic United States stamps and postal history in the form of stamped covers. Ashbrook is most known for his famous two-volume book entitled The United States One Cent Stamp of 1851-1857 which was published in 1938.
Ashbrook published the "Ashbrook Special Service" as a private subscriber series and also contributed to another subscriber series entitled "Bulletins of the Research Group." His philatelic estate, which included classic American postage stamps, postal history, unpublished notes, and other material was sold in 1958 at auction by the firm of H. R. Harmer.
