There's a Swedish philatelist who makes him tear up books of expensive stamps.
The single surviving example of the One-Cent Magenta was found by a schoolboy in 1873; it was later sold to another local philatelist for several shillings.
A philatelist government that pushes laws favouring stamp collecting at the expense of those who don't collect stamps is a bad government.
Like a philatelist, Keynes kept a list of conquests: "…the actor of Whitechapel, 16-year-old under Etna, lift boy of Vauxhall, Jewboy, Grand Duke Cyril of the Paris Baths".
Mounting a collection in an album, the young philatelist learns the names of countries, and comes to recognise their national emblems.
But, as every philatelist knows, more stamps will always be welcome.
Another outstanding collection in Europe especially rich in British and colonial issues was formed principally by King George V, a famed philatelist, and passed on to succeeding British monarchs.
The King, however, was a far more serious and scholarly philatelist, going in for such esoteric as plate flaws.
A devoted philatelist, he got to know a fellow stamp collector who, it turned out, was a Holocaust denier.
Talk story about Mark Minkus, philatelist and formerly a practicing dentist who has turned songwriter.
Then fortune turned his way, with the arrival of one of the game's most famous fish, a wealthy French philatelist, Internet entrepreneur, and fraudster known as Marc Armand Rousso, or, in the world of backgammon, as the Croc.
