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Le Philatéliste by François Barraud (1929). Stamp collecting is the collecting of postage stamps and related objects. It is an area of philately, which is the study (or combined study and collection) of stamps.
Cheryl Ganz, Former National Postal Museum curator and Zeppelin mail collector [3]; Edward Stanley Gibbons, British dealer; Arthur William Sinclair Gray [4] was an Australian known for his collection of "Kangaroo and Map" stamps [5]
The word "philately" is the English transliteration of the French "philatélie", coined by Georges Herpin in 1864. [3]Herpin stated that stamps had been collected and studied for the previous six or seven years and a better name was required for the new hobby than timbromanie (roughly "stamp mania"), which was disliked. [4]
The Boys Friend Book of Stamps of the British Empire, 1925, 19pp; The Cradle of the Postage Stamp, Harmer Rooke, 1923 30pp; The Lady Forger: an original play, Junior Philatelic Society, 1906; The Mayfair find of Rare Stamps, H R Harmer, 1925, 44pp; The Mystery Of the Shilling Green, Chas Nissen & Co Ltd, 1926, 16pp
The stamp was designed by Harold Nelson and features the head of King George V and an image of St George and the Dragon which had originally been drawn as an essay for the 1924 British Empire Exhibition stamps. [2]
Siegel held his first philatelic auction in Kansas City, Missouri.In 1934 he moved his philatelic auction business to New York City and eventually conducted 756 philatelic auctions during his lifetime.
The Philatelic Society of India (PSI) was formed in 1897 [1] by a group of, mainly, expatriate Englishmen resident in the country as the first all-India philatelic society. . During its first fifty years the society included most of the important Anglo-Indian philatelists and had a particularly strong publications record with two award-winning bo
The catalogue of the collection, published 1952, here shown in the deluxe leather bound edition out of the slip-case. The Royal Philatelic Collection is the postage stamp collection of the British royal family.
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