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2. Check Your Attic: These Stamps Are Worth Millions - AOL

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   Collecting stamps is a fun, historically stimulating and famously addictive hobby -- and the right sticky paper square could make you rich. If you built, inherited or otherwise acquired a long ...

3. Stamp collecting - Wikipedia

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   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. It has been one of the world's most popular hobbies since the late nineteenth century with the rapid growth of the postal service , [ 1 ] as a stream of new stamps was produced ...

4. List of stamp clubs and philatelic societies in the United ...

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   Stamp collecting began to emerge from obscurity in America after the Civil War, and by the 1880s philatelic societies were being formed to connect collectors, and to legitimize and publicize the hobby.

5. Portal:Philately - Wikipedia

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   Stamp collecting is the collecting of postage stamps and related objects, such as covers (envelopes, postcards or parcels with stamps affixed). It is one of the world's most popular hobbies , with estimates of the number of collectors ranging up to 20 million in the United States alone.

6. American Topical Association - Wikipedia

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   The ATA offers a variety of member services to Topical Collectors so they may enjoy the hobby of Topical Stamp collecting to the fullest extent. The ATA's office is located in Greer, South Carolina. Among the services included in annual dues payment are: Six bi-monthly issues of Topical Time.

7. Philately - Wikipedia

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   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]