According to the A.P.S. website, Ezra Danolds Cole was a world-famous stamp dealer who, for over half a century, helped build most of the great collections of his time. He went to work as a stamp dealer in the 1920s, and by the mid-1930s had established his own business, which prospered greatly. During the next half-century “Ezra Cole, Nyack, N.Y.” bought and sold U.S. and Confederate rarities.

Cole was president of the ASDA, a governor of the Collectors Club of New York and president of the Association for Stamp Exhibitions. He received the Luff Award for Exceptional Contributions to Philately in 1970.