Alfred F. Lichtenstein, born on August 6, 1876, received his education at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute before pursuing graduate studies in chemistry at the University of Berlin.
He initially worked as an assistant chemist for a dyestuff firm, later establishing his own venture, Analine Dyes and Chemicals, in Switzerland.
In 1921, the Society of Chemical Industry in Basle, Switzerland, acquired Lichtenstein's business, merging it into the larger Ciba-Geigy Company.
He collected stamps issued by Canadian provinces and the Confederation of Canada, Switzerland, Cape Colony, Ceylon, Gambia, Mauritius, Argentina and Uruguay.
[1] When he died in New York City in 1947 (also his birthplace) and his daughter, Louise Boyd Dale, continued his philatelic legacy, it was assumed that she had possession of the pair.