Sharon twigg smith biography

By Michael Baadke

Newspaper publisher and business executive Thurston Twigg-Smith, who assembled and developed the world’s greatest collection of Hawaiian stamps and postal history, died July 16 at age

The Honolulu Advertiser collection was owned by Persis Corporation of Honolulu when it was auctioned by Robert A.

Siegel Auction Galleries in Persis also owned the newspaper that the collection was named for, and Mr. Twigg-Smith was chairman of both the corporation and the publication.

Born Aug. 17, , in Honolulu, Mr. Twigg-Smith was descended directly from missionaries who arrived in Hawaii in The introduction to the three-volume Siegel catalog documenting the sale notes that Mr.

Twigg-Smith’s grandfather, Lorrin A. Thurston, was an earlier publisher of The Honolulu Advertiser whose portrait appears on the six Official stamps of Hawaii issued in (Scott O1-O6).

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