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In philately, the Higgins & Gage World Postal Stationery Catalog is the most recent encyclopedic catalogue of postal stationery covering the whole world. Despite most volumes not having been updated for over thirty years, the catalogue and the H & G numbering system are still widely used by philatelists and stamp dealers although the values given in the catalogue are out of date.
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]
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.
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]
There have been eleven curators of the National Philatelic Collection. [8] The first curator, at the time officially titled "government philatelist", was Joseph Britton Leavy who was retained in 1913 to help organize the collection which had rapidly expanded due to a large donation from the Post Office the preceding year. [8]
Australia Post; Austrian Post; Barbados Postal Service; Canada Post; Cyprus Postal Services; Fiji Post; Deutsche Post; Gibraltar Philatelic Bureau; Greenland Philatelic Bureau
The organization, originally named the American Philatelic Association, was established on September 14, 1886 in New York City, and the following day elected John Kerr Tiffany as its first president. [5]
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.