Word: philatelist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...value was $1,000,000, although the displays are unused, unsalable, imperforate proofs from original plates. Visitors to the truck can buy a 10? history of U. S. philately, current and commemorative stamps. Hot off a tiny press, they get blue souvenir stickers of the White House portico where Philatelist Roosevelt last week dedicated Jim Farley's truck...
...After a White House conference with Philatelist Franklin Roosevelt, Postmaster General Farley announced the first complete revision since 1923 in the regular series of U. S. postage stamps. The new series, not yet designed, will commemorate deceased U. S. Presidents in chronological order, starting with George Washington on 1? stamps...
...London the Stamp Collectors' Fortnightly, favorite reading of George V, observed that "much as we all admired-al-most worshipped-Edward VIII, it was well known that he was not personally a philatelist...
...many a philatelist can (and probably will) inform you, the violet-brown likeness of the acrid old Unionist who marched through Georgia adorned the 8? stamp of the regular issue throughout the decade 1894-1904. That 40 years back Sherman was thus licked by innumerable Southerners (without poisonous effect) and that his likeness underwent besmirchment at the hands of many a Southern postmaster makes the present sputtering of legislative bodies in South Carolina and Georgia seem pointless indeed...
...alternately left & right. Thus Queen Victoria faces left, King Edward VII right, King George V left." Not being familiar with British coins, I am unable to challenge your statement regarding them. However, I have examined British and British Colonial postage stamps for a good many years, as has every philatelist of any experience. Therefore. I must ask you to correct your statement regarding Sovereigns' faces on British stamps. All of the faces of British Sovereigns on British stamps since the first one was issued, in 1840, face to the left-that is, the reader's left. . . . The same...