Download or read book Stamp Odyssey the Timeless Adventure of Stamp Collecting Animals written by Daniel Pippin and published by Salt Spring Island, B.C. : Stampazonia Pub.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adventures in Stamp Collecting written by Edward H. Spire and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A First Stamp Album for Beginners written by Robert Obojski and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2004-11-18 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most popular hobby in the world, stamp collecting has millions of fans in the United States alone. Many are adults who have turned a childhood interest in philately into a pleasurable (and often profitable) lifetime avocation. This volume has everything needed to start a personal stamp collection: Entries for nearly 200 countries; Spaces for more than 2,600 stamps; Over 1,100 black-and-white illustrations of stamps; Easy-to-use Stamp Identifier Table and Index. Clear instructions for using the album and the Stamp Identifier Table are included, along with many useful hints and tips on building a collection. An entertaining, inexpensive way to learn about faraway people and places, stamp collecting brings a sense of excitement and adventure with each new acquisition. This book offers would-be collectors that ticket to discovery.
Download or read book Stamp Collecting as Pastime Illustrated Unabridged written by and published by Lanval Corporation. This book was released on with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On the Road written by Stephen R. Datz and published by General Trade Corporation. This book was released on 1991 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prolific philatelic writer Stephen R Datz relates various of his true-life adventures chasing stamp deals all over the map from the desolate hinterlands of Wyoming and Montana to the bright lights of Las Vegas and New York. It's an amazing odyssey: fast times and big-dollar deals, wild goose chases and third-rate motels, blizzards and tornadoes, eccentric millionaires, desert rats, and crafty wheeler-dealers, breakdowns at middle-of-nowhere truckstops and hippie hitchhikers. Action-packed and a great read. The third in Datz's trilogy about the stamp business.
Download or read book Guide to Stamps and Stamp Collecting written by Judy Allen and published by E.D.C. Publishing. This book was released on 1981 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical introduction to stamp collecting, with step-by-step instructions on how to handle stamps correctly.
Download or read book The Stamp Collection written by Michael Kaufman and published by Fox and Camel. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fox and Camel were the best of friends. See how Fox helps Camel to resolve a situation with a missing stamp collection that has bothered Camel for years. Follow along as they work together to create a solution that works for Camel. Fox and Camel like to share and you can see what makes them such good friends.
Download or read book Stamp Collecting As a Pastime written by Edward James Nankivell and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stamp Collecting as a Pastime Edward James Nankivell 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 described as "that sort of play or agreeable occupation which refreshes the tired person, making him as good as new." Stamp collectors may fairly claim that their hobby serves the double purpose of a pastime and a recreation. As a pastime, it certainly makes time pass most agreeably; for the true student of the postal issues of the world, it turns work into a pastime. As a recreation, it is of such an engrossing character that it may be relied upon to afford the pleasant diversion from business worries that so many tired mental workers need nowadays. For nearly half a century it has maintained unbroken its hold as one of the most popular of all forms of relaxation, and its popularity extends to all classes and to all countries. But this very devotion of stamp collectors to their hobby has puzzled and excited the uninitiated. The ordinary individual, especially the man who has no soul for a hobby of any kind, regards it as a passing fancy, a harmless craze, a fashion that must have its day and disappear, sooner or later. But the passing fancy has endured for nearly half a century, the harmless craze still serves its useful purpose, and the fashion has acquired such a permanence as to convince most people that it has come to stay. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Download or read book Fun and Profit in Stamp Collecting written by Herman Herst and published by Dutton Adult. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stamp Collecting written by Neill Granger and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young philatelists will learn about stamps, what makes them valuable, and how to assemble a collection.
Download or read book Guide to Stamps and Stamp Collecting written by Judy Allen and published by Usborne. This book was released on 1981-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The One cent Magenta written by James Barron and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inside look at the obsessive, secretive, and often bizarre world of high-profile stamp collecting, told through the journey of the world's most sought-after stamp. When it was issued in 1856, it cost a penny. In 2014, this tiny square of faded red paper sold at Sotheby's for nearly $9.5 million, the largest amount ever paid for a postage stamp at auction. Through the stories of the eccentric characters who have bought, owned, and sold the one-cent magenta in the years in between, James Barron delivers a fascinating tale of global history and immense wealth, and of the human desire to collect. One-cent magentas were provisional stamps, printed quickly in what was then British Guiana when a shipment of official stamps from London did not arrive. They were intended for periodicals, and most were thrown out with the newspapers. But one stamp survived. The singular one-cent magenta has had only nine owners since a twelve-year-old boy discovered it in 1873 as he sorted through papers in his uncle's house. He soon sold it for what would be $17 today. (That's been called the worst stamp deal in history.) Among later owners was a fabulously wealthy Frenchman who hid the stamp from almost everyone (even King George V of England couldn't get a peek); a businessman who traveled with the stamp in a briefcase he handcuffed to his wrist; and John E. du Pont, an heir to the chemical fortune, who died while serving a thirty-year sentence for the murder of Olympic wrestler Dave Schultz. Recommended for fans of Nicholas A. Basbanes, Susan Orlean, and Simon Winchester, The One-Cent Magenta explores the intersection of obsessive pursuits and great affluence and asks why we want most what is most rare.
Download or read book Stamp it Ultimate Stamp Collecti written by Leslie Jonath and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An activity book filled with information, tips, activities, and the tools you need to get your stamp collection started.
Download or read book Mini Adventures in Topical Stamp Collecting written by George Griffenhagen and published by . This book was released on 1981-12-31 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Remembering the Space Age written by Steven J. Dick and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Publisher: Proceedings of October 2007 conference, sponsored by the NASA History Division and the National Air and Space Museum, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Sputnik 1 launch in October 1957 and the dawn of the space age.
Download or read book Blue Mauritius written by Helen Morgan and published by Atlantic Books (UK). This book was released on 2006 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the adventures of the world's most sought-after postage stamps--from a tropical Indian Ocean island to the hushed atmosphere of the modern auction room--in this dramatic and passionate tale of the first stamp hunters. In September 1847 colored squares of paper were stuck on to envelopes and used to send out admission cards to a fancy-dress ball on the tropical island of Mauritius. No one at the party would have guessed that these stamps would one day be worth more than a million dollars. When a two-pence 'Blue Mauritius' surfaced on the fledgling French stamp-collecting market in 1865 it gained instant celebrity. Soldiers, schoolboys, and the entire German nation became obsessed with finding one of these extremely rare examples. When in 1903 a perfect specimen, discovered in a childhood album, was bought at auction by the Prince of Wales, the Blue Mauritius gained superstar status. Even now, "Post Office Mauritius" stamps are synonymous with fame, wealth and mystery. The most coveted scraps of paper in existence, this is their story, from their birth during days of sail, taking them from Port Louis to Bordeaux, India and Great Britain, Switzerland and Japan, into the hearts and imagination of collectors everywhere.
Download or read book Stamps written by Gary Dunaier and published by BDD Promotional Books Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces readers to the history and great variety of postage stamps and examines some of the techniques used in identifying and collecting them.
