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Jal Manekji Cooper FRGS (died August 1972) was an Indian philatelist, and an expert and authenticator〔http://www.filatelia.fi/experts/namesa.html#c Cooper's authentication mark〕 of the postage stamps and postal history of India. Cooper was also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the author of several philatelic handbooks. He was both a stamp dealer〔http://www.stampsofindia.com/newssite/vando/trans-001.htm Philately in Transition in India〕 and a collector and was associated with philatelists like C. D. Desai,〔Cooper, Jal; Foreword to the auction catalog: The Unique Collection of India offered by order of the Executors of the late Mr. C. D. Desai, F.R.P.S.L., Robson Lowe (London), May 25 and 26, 1949. Sale Nos. 838-841.〕 N. D. Cooper, and Robson Lowe. Cooper is occasionally but erroneously credited with having discovered the Inverted Head 4 Annas. The 1891 reprints show that this error was already known. E. A. Smythies said the error was first discovered at a meeting of the Philatelic Society of London in 1874.〔http://web.archive.org/web/20091028105908/http://geocities.com/mjshah.geo/articles/classic_error.html E. A. Smythies, "A Classic Stamp Error," ''American Philatelist'' (1950), pp. 59, 60.〕 The ''Jal Cooper Philatelic Society'', in Varanasi, India, is named after him and India Post issued a 10 rupees commemorative stamp in 1997 depicting Cooper and Indian postmarks, on the occasion of INDEPEX 97. ==Selected publications== * ''Stamps of India,'' Bombay (1942), 177 pp.; reprint: Bombay (1968). * ''Bhutan,'' Bombay (Sept. 1969) * ''Early Indian Cancellations,'' Bombay (1948) 92 pp.; reprint: Bombay (1993). * ''India Used Abroad,'' Western Printers and Publishers Press of Bombay (1950) 100 pp.; reprinted in ''India's Stamp Journal'' (1972) * ''India Used In Burma,'' Western Printers and Publishers Press of Bombay (1950) 67 pp. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jal Cooper」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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