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Jay T. Carrigan

 

Jay T. Carrigan

Jay T. Carrigan was born and raised in Bedford, Ohio. After earning a degree in mathematics from Columbia University, he served in the U.S. Army. Following his military service, Jay spent 35 years in the Washington, D.C. area working as a computer systems analyst.

Jay was a talented musician and most evenings could be found playing his trumpet in various concert bands, jazz bands, or in the pit orchestra for musical productions.

One of Mr. Carrigan largest hobbies was philately. Jay was widely known as a serious philatelist with broad interests and deep knowledge. He was a self-described "collector of chaos". Jay specialized in studying and exhibiting the short-lived political entities that arose during and after World War II. Among his exhibits were "The 1944-45 Regional Issues oh Yugoslavia", "Mecklenburg-Vorpommern", "East Saxony", "Certified Mail in Northern Bavaria", "Polish DP Camps in Germany - The Lubeck Complex", and "Local Emergency Measures in Eastern Hungary, 1944-45."

His largest exhibit was ten frames of "Carpatho-Ukraine 1944-45" for which he received numerous gold awards. In addition to helping popularize Carpatho-Ukraine as an exhibiting topic, Jay made a major contribution to Ukrainian philately in 2005 as the senior author of the Ukrainian Society's special issue of the Ukrainian Philatelist devoted exclusively to Carpatho-Ukraine. This issue generated a great deal of interest and was subsequently reprinted with a new cover as a Handbook of Carpatho-Ukrainian Philately.

When he wasn't exhibiting, Jay served as an American Philatelic Society Judge. He was a life member of the APS, a member of the German Philatelic Society, the Society for Czechoslovak Philately, the Ukrainian Philatelic and Numismatic Society and many other philatelic organizations.

Jay passed away on August 22, 2015, at the age of 76. He was a prominent client of ours for over 15 years. His knowledge and level of expertise helped us on many occasions. It was a pleasure working with him.

In this Auction on behalf of Judith Carrigan we are offering Second Part of his Collection, which includes DP and POW Camps of the post-World War II Period and Local Issues of Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Yugoslavia. First part of his Collection (The Carpatho-Ukraine of 1944-45 and the Liberation of Yugoslavia and Post-World War II Provisional issues) was succesfully sold on the Auction 69. Detailed information about lots from his Collections can be found in the Catalogue of the Auction 71

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