Word: philatelist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some 3,500 Americans, a discarded beer can may prove a thing of beauty and a toy forever. They are members of the Beer Can Collectors of America, who respond to the sight of a 1969 Olde Frothingslosh container as ecstatically as a philatelist who discovers an 1856 one-cent British Guiana stamp tucked in the family Bible...
...patina seems slightly worn. This summer NASA announced that the three Apollo 15 astronauts-David Scott, James Irwin and Alfred Worden-had carried 400 unauthorized stamped envelopes to the moon and back, then let 100 of them out for sale through a German philatelist (TIME, July 24). The three never actually profited by the arrangement, but it raised a sour question of exploitation...
Last week, after an elaborate investigation, NASA announced that the three Apollo 15 astronauts, David Scott, James Irwin and Alfred Worden, had carried 400 unauthorized stamped envelopes to the moon and back. Through an intermediary, 100 copies of the moon mail were eventually purchased by a German philatelist named Hermann Sieger, who in turn sold 99 of them for a reported $1,500 apiece...
...situation was embarrassing for everyone - except Philatelist Sieger. Last week the price of each piece of moon mail rose...