Eric Etkin (cf.) ^{SAPDA-06, APS-06}
Patrick J. Frost ^{APTA-07, ASDA-07 APS-11}
Ian Shapiro ^{NZSDA-10, SAPDA-11}
Michael Goldsmith ^PTS-06

4th Floor, 17 Waterloo Place, London SW1Y 4AR (ca.2011)

Antonio M. Torres ^{ASDA-07, APS-11, PTS-11, ACOFIL-06}
P. O. Box 46092
London W9 1UZ

" Upon the Demerger becoming effective, Communitie.com will be the holding company of Collector Cafe which in turn will own the Stanley Gibbons Group." c.2000 from AIM documentation; see Stanley Gibbons website (c.2012)  

And his: rowanbaker.com site notes:

"This is my holding page for all the websites I manage. As new websites go live you will be able to click a link straight to the site. All websites feature a "shopping cart" and a secure online payment system."

c.201008 "Over 34,000 different items available to view at the following websites":

british-stamps.com (online) commonwealth-stamps.com (online) commonwealth-minisheets.com (forwards) foreign-stamps.com (online) mint-stamps.com (coming soon) rare-stamps.co.uk (coming soon) definitive-sets.com (forwards) definitives.co.uk ("under const.") usa-stamps.com (online) usa-stamp.com (forwards) usa-stamps.biz (forwards) usa-stamps.net (forwards) stamps-usa.com (forwards) us-stamps.com (forwards) us-stamps.net (forwards) us-stamps.us (forwards) united-states-stamps.com (forwards)

united-states-stamps.net (forwards) british-stamp-auction.com ('404') british-stamp-auctions.com (forwards) britishstampauctions.com (forwards) britishstampauction.com (forwards) british-stamp-auction.co.uk ('404') british-stamp-auctions.co.uk ('404') britishstampauction.co.uk ('404') britishstampauctions.co.uk ('404') english-stamps.com (forwards) english-stamps.net (forwards) english-stamps.co.uk (forwards) great-britain-stamps.com (forwards) great-britain-stamps.net (forwards) great-britain-stamps.co.uk (online) coventgardenstampshop.com (forwards) rowanbaker.com (online)

(comments in parenthesis are mine - ajw)

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older: P. O. Box 200, Harare, Zimbabwe (c.1999)

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old:
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