F. J. Peplow

Frank Jukes Peplow (c. 1872 – 10 October 1935[1]) was Borough Librarian at Deptford and a philatelist who won the Crawford Medal from the Royal Philatelic Society London in 1927 for his work The Postage Stamps of Buenos Aires.

He bought important holdings of Japan in the Ferrary and Duveen sales and won the Golden Palm of Honour for his Japanese stamps at the New York Exhibition of 1926.

[1] In organised philately, Peplow was the Hon Secretary and Treasurer of the Philatelic Literature Society and a Council member of the Royal Philatelic Society London from 1910 to 1922.

With Lionel Fulcher he edited The Philatelic Record, which job they took over from W.D.

[1][2] Peplow collected Japanese artefacts including netsuke, metal-work and ornamental swords.