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• “Demand is boosted currently by a "vast" new generation of collectors in China and India, says Sotheby's world-wide philatelic consultant Richard Ashton, adding that young buyers are also very active in South America.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Still in Love With Stamps

• “In September, Sotheby's London will auction the British philatelic collection of the late Lord Leonard Steinberg, founder of the Stanley Leisure Group, a chain of betting shops and casinos.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Still in Love With Stamps

• “In 2006, Congress passed strict laws curtailing non-postal activities and essentially told the agency to stick with philatelic pursuits.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Post Office Wants More Than Mail

• “Associated Press In 2006, Congress passed strict laws curtailing non-postal activities and essentially told the agency to stick with philatelic pursuits.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Post Office Wants More Than Mail

• “Rural England circa 1950 is the setting for the lighter-toned "A Red Herring Without Mustard" Delacorte, 399 pages, $23 , the third mystery by Alan Bradley to be narrated by 11-year-old Flavia de Luce: chemistry prodigy, amateur detective and mischievous bane of her two elder sisters and their distracted, upper-class, philatelic, cash-strapped widower-father.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Murder by the Numbers

• “Values of stamps in the index are set by the prices they bring at auction and in private sales, plus opinions from philatelic experts.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Different Kind of Index

• “The philatelic posters on the wall were all of stamps that could not possibly exist.”

  Fictionaut: Baby Games

• “Only 100 were printed with its central image -- the Curtiss JN-4 airplane -- upside-down, and today a single copy of this Holy Grail of philatelic flubs sells for more than a million dollars.”

  Michael Sigman: Amazon's Perfect Mistake

• “Stamp collecting was David's consuming passion," says Sotheby's philatelic consultant Richard Ashton, whose friendship with the collector began 46 years ago.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Rare Stamps at Auction

• “Ambassador Hu Shih took his leave, and the president worked on his stamp collection, sorting through the weekly envelope of philatelic novelties sent him by the Department of State.”

  Simon & Schuster: Human Smoke

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