Dragomir Zagorsky

Dragomir Zagorsky was a Bulgarian author and philatelist, described by Ivan Metchev as the "greatest expert and collector of Bulgaria of all time".^[1]

He wrote widely on the postage stamps and postal history of Bulgaria and Eastern Roumelia. His book, The Jews of Bulgaria: A Collection of Bulgarian Judaica Jüdische (c. 1989), described, through the correspondence of Jewish merchants, the development of postal communications in Bulgaria between independence in 1878 and the Second World War.^[2]

Selected publications

• Ostrumelien 1878 - 1885 Postgeschichte und postalische Ausgaben (1984)
• Bulgarien : Postgeschichte und postalische Ausgaben einschliesslich einer detaillierten Studie der Poststempel 1878 - 1935 (1986)
• First Bulgarian Single-Circle Stamps in Historical Rumelia Following Unification, Dragomir Zagorsky, La Mesa CA, 1987.
• A History of Bulgarian Philatelic Rarities, Dragomir Zagorsky, La Mesa CA, 1989.
• "First Issue of Bulgaria", Trumpter, No. 18 (Winter 1989), pp. 1–2.
• The Jews of Bulgaria: A Collection of Bulgarian Judaica Jüdische (c. 1989)^[2]
• "Bulgarian forgery found", Linn's Stamp News, 29 March 1993, p. 10.