Frank Crown

Francis J. (Frank) Crown, Jr. of Capshaw, Alabama, is a noted collector of postage stamps and postal history of the Confederate States of America. He is a retired United States military officer.

Mr. Crown started collecting stamps at a very early age and by the time he was 15 he developed an interest in postage stamps of the Confederate States of America. He specialized in the study of the early postal history of Georgia, including its postmasters provisionals as well as its specific postal history during the American Civil War.

In addition to writing numerous articles on Confederate postal history, Crown is author of a number of books: Confederate Postal History, Surveys of the Confederate Postmasters' Provisionals, and Preliminary Census of Georgia Postmasters' Provisionals. And, because of his knowledge and interest in 19th century postal history of Georgia, Mr. Crown was editor of the Georgia Postal History Society journal Georgia Post Roads and also prepared and published the Georgia Stampless Cover Catalog and Handbook.

At the Confederate Stamp Alliance Frank Crown is on the editorial board of the CSA Catalog project which is updating August Dietz’s The Postal Service of the Confederate States of America and re-publishing it as the Confederate States Catalog and Handbook, currently planned to be published in 2010.