page_title: Thomas Ridpath
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Ridpath / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: This is a scan of an image of a British Guiana postage stamp issued in 1856, and therefore in the public domain worldwide. The scan was taken from the image in James Mackay, The World of Classic Stamps (1972). Since the stamp is public domain, the two dimensional image of it also has no copyright claim and is public domain.
context_page_description: Thomas Ridpath was a Liverpool stamp dealer who handled some of the greatest rarities in philately such as the British Guiana 1c magenta of 1856 and the block of four of the 1869 24c United States stamps with inverted centre. He gave philatelic lantern displays at which the differences between genuine and forged stamps were shown enlarged on a screen and supplied the philatelic press with reports of new finds that they reported in their columns.
context_section_description: Ridpath began his career as a stamp dealer in the firm of Young and Stockall but went into business on his own account in 1877. He described himself in censuses as an "importer of foreign goods". He was active in informing the philatelic press of new stamps that they then reported in their columns. Trading from Liverpool's Church Street, he handled some of the greatest rarities in philately:
caption: The design of the 1c stamp may be better seen in this image of the 4-cent stamp of the same issue
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