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A young stamp collector, 1954. Stamp collecting is generally accepted as one of the areas that make up the wider subject of philately, which is the study of stamps. A philatelist may, but does not have to, collect stamps. It is not uncommon for the term philatelist to be used to mean a stamp collector. Many casual stamp collectors accumulate ...
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]
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] John Edward Gray; Colonel Green; Bill Gross, third person to form a complete 19th-century US collection
Explore daily insights on the USA TODAY crossword puzzle by Sally Hoelscher. ... GEORG OLDEN (54A: Graphic designer who was the first African American to design a postage stamp) GEORG OLDEN (1920 ...
Person who bought the "Inverted Jenny" sheet of 24-cent inverted airmail stamps Eugene Klein (June 26, 1878 – April 30, 1944) of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , was an internationally known stamp collector , stamp dealer , and auctioneer who was president of the American Philatelic Society from 1935 to 1937.
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Joseph Britton Leavy (March 7, 1872 – July 25, 1921), of New York City and Washington, D.C., was an active stamp collector who served at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Collecting interests
The last stamp he acquired was the 30c gray black stamp of 1873, given as a gift by one of Zoellner's friends. On October 8–10, 1998, the entire collection was auctioned off. Siegel's auction catalog was a 391-page work that included extensive description and documentation of the items, many of which were the "finest known" of their type, and ...