SCOTT, WALTER S.

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Walter S. Scott (1864-1948), son of John Walter Scott.

APS Member No. 2557. He worked for his father's firm, John W. Scott & Co., and later on Scott & Company, and when it was sold worked for the corporation Scott Stamp & Coin Company, Ltd. 

In 1890, he served as the recording secretary for the Brooklyn Philatelic Society.

In 1895, he left Scott Stamp & Coin Co. Ltd, founded Walter S. Scott & Company, a stamp dealer and auctioneer. In 1896, Postal Inspectors raided his office seizing revenue stamps for periodicals that were stolen from the government in the case of U. S. vs. Walters S. Scott.  The governors of the Collectors Club contribute funds and authorized a defense be formed to defend Scott in the trial. On April 21, 1898, the judge ruled in Scott's favor.

In 1896, he was a member of the Collectors Club, New York.

In 1900, he published "Philately and What it Teaches," in the Anglo-American Magazine, pages 363-36.

In 1900, he was the sevretary of the. National Philatelic Society.

In 1901, Club Men of New York, 4th issue listed Walter S. Scott as secretaty in his stamp shop at 79 Nassau Street, New York.

In 1902, Nick Dieschbourg, a well-known philatelic dealer and founder of the Collectors Club of New York, had a shop  located at 83 Nassau Street. For a brief period of perhaps a month he took on Walter S. Scott as partners since he manufactured albums and stock books something  his father  had always pursued.

He worked for Merwyn -Clayton, and Merwyn Sales Company until they were bought by Anderson Auction Company in 1915. Immediately afterward Scott joined partnership with Marion T. O'Shaughnessy in the firm of Scott & O'Shaughnessy. 

He died on October 29, 1948.

Bibliography :

American Journal of Philately (1890) : 21

The London Philatelist, Vol. 5 (1896) : 100

The Post Office (1896) : 29

The Post Office, Vol. 8, No. 86, May  (1898) : 22

Brookly Daily Eagle Almanac, Vol. 15 (1900) : 287

Polk (Trow's) New York  Copartnership and Corporation  Directory (1902) : 468

Bulletin of the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, Volume 39 (1935) : 80, 82.

The American Philatelist, Vol. 62 (1948) : 190 obituary