philatelist

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A philatelist, his knowledge of the world's business and trade was rather legendary.

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  1. A collector of postage-stamps and revenue-stamps as objects of curiosity or interest.

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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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