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PHILATELY (Gr. 4 Aos, loving, and &TeXils, free of tax) , the study and collection of postage-stamps and other marks of pre-payment issued by post-offices. The fancy for collecting postage-stamps began a short time after the issue of the first British penny and two-penny stamps in 184o (see POST and POSTAL SERVICE). Dr Gray, an official of the British Museum, began collecting them soon after their appearance, and an advertisement in an issue of The Times of 1841 asks for gifts of cancelled stamps for a young lady. In 1842 the new hobby was ridiculed in Punch. It was not until about 186o, however, that stamp collecting began to be systematically carried on with full regard to such minutiae as the different kinds of paper, water-marks, perforation, shade of colour and distinctive outline. About 1862 a teacher in Paris directed that foreign stamps should be collected and pasted upon the pages of his pupils' atlases and geographies according to countries, and this may have been the first form of the systematic classification of stamps in a collection. Of existing collections the oldest were begun between 1853 and 186o, by which year French collectors had assumed especial prominence. Professional dealers now made their appearance, and in 1861 philatelic literature, now of vast extent, was inaugurated by the publication in Strasburg of a catalogue of stamps issued up to that time. The Paris collectors were the first to classify stamps, measure them by the gauge, note the water-marks and separate the distinct issues of each country. Collecting with due regard to the relationship of different issues is called plating. The first English catalogue was issued in 1862, followed in December of the same year by The Stamp Collector's Review and Monthly Advertiser, published in Liverpool, the first philatelic periodical, the second, The Stamp Collector's Magazine, appearing in 1863. In 1863 also appeared Le Timbre-Poste, a Brussels journal. Up to 1910 over 800 philatelic periodicals
Although small bodies of enthusiasts had banded together in England, France and the United States for the study and collection of postage-stamps as early as 1865, it was not until 1869 that the first great club, the Philatelic Society of London, still the most important in the world, was founded. Other societies in Great Britain are the Junior Philatelic of London, and those of Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh and Leith. The leading society in America is. the American Philatelic Association; in France the Societe francaise de timbrologie; in Germany the Internationaler Philatelisten-Verein. More than 400 such organizations are now in existence, the majority of them in the United States and Germany. At a philatelic congress, held in London in 1910, the formation of a universal union of philatelic societies " to discourage unnecessary or speculative issues " was considered. Not only the stamps themselves were collected, but " entires," i.e. postcards, envelopes with the stamps still adhering, &c. Marks of prepayment at last became so numerous that, about 188o, specialists began to appear, who restricted their collections to the stamps of some particular country or continent, or topostcards or newspaper-wrappers alone. The most extensive and valuable stamp collection in the world, that of Baron P. von Ferrary of Paris, was begun about 1865. This collection, which cost its owner at least 250,000, contains a cancelled and an uncancelled specimen of each stamp. The next greatest collection is that bequeathed to the British nation in 1891 by T. K. Tapling, M.P., now in the British Museum. Among other important collections may be mentioned those in the German Postal Museum in Berlin, of King George V. of England, W. B. Avery, H. J. Duveen and the earl
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