Jean-Pierre Mangin Explained

Jean-Pierre Mangin (born 26 October 1937) is a French philatelist who specialized in finding error in the design of postage stamps. He wrote a bilingual world guide of Errors on stamps.

Mangin was a member of the French Académie de philatélie between 4 June 1994 and his voted eviction in December 2005. He was president of the European Academy of Philately for a 2000-2007 mandate, but resigned and was evicted there as well.^[1] The same happened at the Réal Academia Hispanica de Philatelia.^[2]

On 26 October 2007, he became a founding member of the Académie Mondiale de Philatélie, and became its first president.^[3]

In the 2000s, he wrote a monthly column in the French magazine L'Écho de la timbrologie about errors on stamps found by the readers.

Books

• With René Geslin, Le Cycle et la Poste, 1988. About the importance of bicycle in the mail distribution in France and stamps of this thematic collection.
• Book: Mangin, Jean-Pierre . Mangin, Marie-Alyette . 1999 . Timbres erronés . Stamp errors . 978-2-86814-105-7 .

Notes and references

Notes and References

1. Ma philatélie . Jamet . Claude . Trait d'Union . 7 June 2007 . 27 . 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070927063901/http://www.maphilatelie.com/images/TraitDUnionNr27.pdf . 27 September 2007 . dead . dmy.
2. Web site: Biographical note . Académie de philatélie . 19 June 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120222185016/http://www.academiedephilatelie.org/bio-membres/mangin.htm . 22 February 2012 . dead . dmy.
3. Jullien . Pierre . Académie de philatélie… Vous avez dit "mondiale"? . Philatélie au quotidien . 6 December 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20091009101302/http://mondephilatelique.blog.lemonde.fr/2007/12/06/academie-de-philatelie-vous-avez-dit-mondiale/ . 9 October 2009 . live . dmy .