page_title: Edward Chauncey Luard
section_title: Philately
hierarchical_section_title: Edward Chauncey Luard / Philately
caption_attribution_description: English: This is a picture of an 1850 British Guiana 2 c pink cottonreel on cover. Once owned by Phillip Ferrary, it was acquired by King George V for the British royal collection.
context_page_description: Edward Chauncey Luard was a British planter in Demerara, British Guiana. He was influential among the planter community in British Guiana and was a member of the Court of Policy for East Demerara. He led the campaign to introduce a ballot into the colony's constitution in 1895.
  A noted philatelist, Luard's collection of the stamps of British Guiana included examples of the "cottonreel" issues, some of which are now part of the Royal Philatelic Collection.
context_section_description: Luard was a philatelist whose collection of British Guiana stamps was sold to Pemberton, Wilson & Co. in 1890 and then to Philipp von Ferrary. It included a pair of the 2c rose "cottonreel" stamps of 1851 on cover that was later purchased by King George V and is now part of the Royal Philatelic Collection.
  In the early 1890s Luard was in London, resident in Hampstead, and became a member of The Philatelic Society, London (later the Royal Philatelic Society London), attending their meetings and subsequently entering into correspondence with Edward Denny Bacon about the history of the stamps of the colony after he returned to British Guiana.
  In 1896, Luard wrote to The London Philatelist from Demerara that he had bought another pair of the 2c pink cottonreels on cover from the Rector of Christ Church, Georgetown, to whom they had been donated by a Miss Rose, an elderly lady parishioner. The cover was addressed to "Miss Rose, Blankenberg". Luard commented that she had since been "besieged" by stamp collectors seeking old stamps of the colony for which there were standing offers to buy in the advertisements of the local newspapers. Unfortunately she had no more. Luard paid $1,005 (£209) but then sold the cover to Messrs. Stanley Gibbons for £500. The rector offered the impoverished Miss Rose a share of the sale price but she refused to accept anything, saying that she was pleased at last to be "able to give something worth while" to her church.
caption: The 1850 British Guiana 2c pink cottonreel stamps on cover, formerly in the Luard collection, now in the Royal Philatelic Collection.[6]
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