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Francisco Lemos da Silveira

Portuguese philatelist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ60676673 ↗
Source-derived summary

Francisco Lemos da Silveira (born 1918, date of death missing) was a Portuguese philatelist who was appointed to the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1998. In 2002 he received the European Award for Philatelic Merit of the Académie Europeenne Philatélie. Silveira is deceased.

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“Francisco Lemos da Silveira” enters the record as portuguese philatelist. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Francisco, Lemos and Silveira can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1918, 1998, 2002—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1918-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Francisco, Lemos and Silveira.
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“Francisco Lemos da Silveira” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Francisco, Lemos and Silveira provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q60676673. VIAF identifies the subject as 98593400. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1918, 1998 and 2002.

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This entry incorporates text from “Francisco Lemos da Silveira” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.