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. He left Scott Stamp & Coin Co. Ltd, founded Walter S. Scott & Company, a stamp dealer and auctioneer. He worked for Merwyn -Clayton, anf 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 :

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