Dr. Anton Jerger of Vienna was an Austrian philatelist who, in 1983, was awarded the Crawford Medal by the Royal Philatelic Society London for his handbooks on the philately of Austrian Lombardy-Venetia.The Society's medals and honorary fellowship. The Royal Philatelic Society London, 2009, p. 4. He amassed a world-class collection of this area over fifty years with his wife Elisabeth. The collection was sold in instalments by Corinphila, with the first instalment alone raising US$1,800,000.Greg Manning Galleries' United Nations Archives Auction a Sellout; Hong Kong and Zurich Auctions Also Exceed Pre-Sale Estimates. Business Wire, 25 November 2003. Retrieved 29 January 2013. Archived here.
In 1984, Dr. Jerger was the first Austrian to be elected to the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists."Here & There: RDP 1984" in Gibbons Stamp Monthly, May 1984, p. 41.
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