Stamp Collecting
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Great collections of postage stamps, like great collections of pictures, in these days acquire an international rank and reputation. The great stamp collections of to-day are in a few hands, and have...
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Of the many stamps that are set apart, for one cause or another, from the ordinary run, as having a history of their own, those that by the common consent of collector and dealer are ranked as great r...
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A few years ago many heads of colleges prohibited stamp collecting amongst their boys. They found they were carrying it too far, and were being made the easy prey of a certain class of rapacious deale...
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When considered from the historical point of view, postage stamps attain their highest level of educational value. They are finger posts to most of the great events that have made the history of natio...
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Wherever you go you find the stamp collector in evidence. The hobby has its devotees in every civilized country. Its hold is, in fact, international. In Dresden there is a society with over two thousa...
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Ever since the collection of postage stamps was first started it has been sneered at as a passing craze, and it has been going to die a natural death for the past forty years. But it is not dead yet. ...
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Most of the great cities of Europe, the British Colonies, and the United States have their Philatelic Societies. They are associations of stamp collectors for the study of postage stamps, their histor...
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According to the authorities, the central idea of a pastime is “that it is so positively agreeable that it lets time slip by unnoticed; as, to turn work into pastime.” And recreation is de...
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When a stamp collector is charged with being extravagant, with spending money lavishly and foolishly on a mere hobby, he may very justifiably reply that even his most extravagant spendings may be rega...
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Some artists scout the idea of attempting anything that may be considered a work of art in the ridiculously limited space of a postage stamp. The restriction of a postage stamp when viewed alongside a...
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There are numbers of stamps that have an interesting history of their own. They mark some official experiment, some curious blunder or accident, some little conceit, some historical event, or some cru...
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His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, in a letter to a correspondent, referring to stamp collecting, wrote: “It is one of the greatest pleasures of my life”; and the testimony of the Pri...
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Few hobbies, if any, can boast of such a varied and extensive literature as stamp collecting. Expensive works have been published on the postal issues of most countries. They have been published in En...
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The story of the development of stamp collecting, and of the trade that has sprung up with it, is full of romance. Our publishers’ business, with its world-wide ramifications, was begun by youn...
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The questions, “What to collect?” and “How to collect?” are much more easily asked than answered. Each individual will differ in taste, in inclination, in method, in time at hi...
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