Alfred Forbin

In 1902, Théodore Champion, his employee and the best man at his wedding, purchased the business from Forbin who afterwards concentrated on fiscal stamps.

Forbin also started a journal Le Bulletin Fiscaliste in order to keep the catalogue up to date.

[5][6] He was one of the founders and the Doyon (Dean) of the stamp dealer's organisation the Chambre Syndicale Francaise de la Philatelie.

[7] Letters in the National Archives of Australia show Forbin requesting revenue stamps from the Australian authorities over the period 1925 to 1947 and it seems likely that he would have been in contact with other governments as well.

[8] And correspondence reproduced in The Revenue Journal, shows that Forbin was still dealing in fiscal stamps as late as August 1955.