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Relax with Some Interesting Stamp Collecting Stories
A schoolboy prowling through an attic, a King and his mistress sprawled on the floor of a train being sliced with bullets... they're each characters in the strange story of the world's most valuable stamp.
Sir Edward Bacon His first boss had plenty of money to spend on stamps. His second employer, the British Library, gave him plenty of time to organize a collection of philatelic treasures unlike anything else in the world.
Journey Back to The Stamp Collector's World of 1947 New York City... men in hats, stamp stores, and for a few dazzling days in late spring, what may have been the best stamp show ever staged.
At what point do a young collector's duplicates become a stock? What happens that lures a stamp collector into the world of the stamp dealer?
The Stamp Collector's Stamp Collector The World of Robson Lowe was one of grace, innovation, and an endless parade of fascinating people and fascinating stamps.
The 1950s: Stamp Collecting at the Crossroads It was a strange decade for stamps, and for stamp collecting... in retrospect, an intriguing turning point...
St. Pierre & Miquelon: Rumrunners & Stamp Collecting In the 1920s, it was the Rum Runner's motherlode. These French islands have uncorked some fine stamps as well.
In Search of Seebecks: The Poor Side of the Philatelic Tracks Let's say we collected stamps a hundred years ago... what sorts of material would be dismissed as garbage and frowned upon as disreputable?
One Country, Two Postal Administrations It hasn't staked out a position of prominence in the headlines, but it has been producing outstanding stamps for years...
Many of us could care less about the age of a stamp... for some, others, antiquity is everything. Read More > |
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