Álvaro Bonilla Lara Explained

Álvaro Bonilla Lara
Birth Date:	3 November 1903
Death Date:	1988
Nationality:	Costa Rican
Occupation:	Lawyer

Álvaro Bonilla Lara (3 November 1903 – 1988)^[1] won the Lichtenstein Medal in 1965.^[2] He was a lawyer by profession.^[3] Bonilla Lara was a member of the Society of Costa Rica Collectors and an expert on the revenue stamps of Costa Rica. In 1998, his History of the Revenue Stamps of Costa Rica (1870-1970) was updated by Héctor R. Mena and Oscar C. Rohrmoser as the Costa Rica Revenue Stamp Catalogue .

Bonilla Lara was twice president of La Federación Interamericana de Filatelia^[4] and joined the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1967.^[5]

Selected publications

• "Los sellos de Telegrafos" in Chile Filatelico, No. 170, Junio de 1968, pp. 68-70.
• History of the Revenue Stamps of Costa Rica (1870-1970). Baton Rouge, La. Society of Costa Rica Collectors, 1996.

A fuller listing of articles by Bonilla Lara on Costa Rican revenue philately may be found in Riley's Fiscal Philatelic Literature Handbook, June 1997.

See also

• Postage stamps and postal history of Costa Rica

Notes and References

1. Background notes on The Roll of Distinguished Philatelists September 2011, Roll of Distinguished Philatelists Trust, London, 2011. Archived here.
2. http://www.collectorsclub.org/Awards.shtml Lichtenstein Award.
3. Alfaro, Fernán Pacheco (2008) History of the Municipal Revenue Stamps of Costa Rica. Fernán Pacheco Alfaro: Santo Tomás de Santo, Costa Rica, p. 2.
4. Web site: FIAF ASSEMBLIES and their PRESIDENTS 1968 - 2011 . Federación Interamericana de Filatelia . 22 June 2013 . 21 May 2020 . 5 May 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140505182459/https://www.fiaf-filatelia.com/history/history04.html.
5. "1967 Congress Honours" in The London Philatelist, Vol. 76, 1967, p. 100.