Yasha Beresiner was born in Turkey in 1940 and is a Law Graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1968). He moved to England in 1969 and after an extended career as a legal consultant was appointed a Director of Stanley Gibbons Ltd, the stamp magnates. In 1983 he set up his own international collectors' company, InterCol London (www.intercol.co.uk). He is a qualified City of London Guide (Editor of their quarterly publication) and a Past Master (2001/2) of the Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards, founded in 1628. He is an accredited NADFAS lecturer and a prolific author. In addition to a dozen books (Andre Deutsche, David and Charles, etc) on a range of subjects, his articles have appeared in specialised collectors' and other magazines throughout Europe, and the Americas. His book 'English County Maps' won the British Library Association award: 'Best Reference work for 1988'.
