Mr. Serebrakian was born in 1900 in Tiflis, the capital of Georgia, but of Armenian origin. Having graduated in Leipzig in the 1920s he became a cigarette factory manager in the Netherlands. He went to Brussels around 1930, where he was a full time stamp dealer. S., who had began stamp collecting as a boy, also participated in international exhibitions. When World War II broke out he moved to New York, continuing his stamp business. He died in the USA in 1990. Serebrakian was member #273 of the Rossica society. What also is interesting to know; his wife, Herla Marie Serebrakian (born in Austria), had two sisters, Michaela Elizabeth and Annuschka who married the dealers Julius Stolow and Harry Stolow respectively.