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A keen amateur philatelist, he approached her in the parliamentary lobby and gave her a sheaf of self-addressed postcards and letters, each bearing new South African stamps, asking her to mail them back to him from Moscow.— BEAUTIFUL, ALSO, ARE THE SOULS OF MY BLACK SISTERS
He organized the '5th and 50th reunions for his Bayonne High School class of 1936 and was a philatelist with an extensive collection of U.S. and Israeli postage stamps.
Stamp collecting became popular in the United States during the Great Depression-in part because it's a cheap diversion and also because President Franklin Roosevelt, an ardent philatelist, encouraged the hobby.— Slate Magazine
The sheer size of the Chinese population also goes a ways to explain its large representation in the international philatelist community.— Slate Magazine
A US company wanted to buy the most valuable Czech postage stamp, displayed in New York and Washington these days, for one million dollars, but its owner, famous Czech philatelist Ludvík— Prague Monitor

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