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Stamp
Collecting for Beginners, Advanced Collectors and
Investors
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Why you
should seriously consider collecting
stamps?
The Person
who allows himself no relaxation, no
recreation, loses his energy, and ages
earlier than the man who judiciously
alternates work and play. |
From: Your name here
Dear Friend,
Many people are at a loss to
understand the fascination that surrounds the pursuit of
stamp collecting. They are surprised at the clannishness
of stamp collectors, and their lifelong devotion to
their hobby.
They are thunderstruck at the
enormous prices paid for rare stamps, and at the
fortunes that are spent and made in stamp collecting.
This book, Stamp Collecting will afford a peep behind
the scenes, and explain how it is that, after nearly
over a century and a half of existence, stamp collecting
has never been more popular than it is today.
If you are in search of a hobby I assure you none is
more attractive or more satisfying than stamp
collecting.
The literature of stamp collecting is more abundant than
that devoted to any other hobby. You can find these
volumes almost everywhere.
Governments and statesmen
recognize, unsolicited, the claims of stamp
collecting—the power, the influence, and the wealth that
it commands.
From a mere schoolboy pastime it
has steadily developed into an engrossing hobby
for the leisured and the busy of all classes and all
ranks of life, from the royals to the errand boy in the
merchant's office.
In the competition of modern life it is recognized that
those who must work must also play. The physician
assures us that the man who allows himself no
relaxation, no recreation, loses his energy, and ages
earlier than the man who judiciously alternates work and
play.
As stamp collecting may be indulged in by all ages, and
at all seasons, it is becoming more and more the
favorite indoor relaxation with brain-workers.
It may be taken up or laid down at
any time, and at any stage. Its cost may be limited to
few cents or dollars, and it may be made a pleasant
pursuit or an engrossing study, or it may even be
diverted into money-making purposes.
So absorbing is the hobby that in stamp circles there is
a saying, "Once a stamp collector, always a stamp
collector."
Previously published as hardcover,
Stamp Collecting is now at last available in
downloadable PDF file format.
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