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2 unusual facts about Stamp collecting


Bruce Conde

Bruce Conde (aka Bruce Alsono Bourbon de Conde, aka Alfonso Yorba) (5 December 1913 – 19 July 1992) was a US Army officer, stamp collector, royal pretender, and a general for Royalist forces during the North Yemen Civil War.

Congress of the French Parliament

Mail sent from this office is highly sought after by stamp collectors who often ask their senator or deputies to send them mail from the Congress.


Daffy Duck for President

Daffy Duck for President is a children's book, published by Warner Bros. and the United States Postal Service in 1997 to coincide with the release of the first Bugs Bunny U.S. postage stamp.

Postage stamp separation

Imperforate stamps have been issued occasionally since then, either because separation equipment was temporarily unavailable (in newborn nations for instance), to makers of automatic stamp vending equipment (the United States did this in the 1900s and 1910s), as novelties for stamp collectors (particularly when stamps are issued in souvenir sheets), or as errors.


see also

Delf Norona

Norona was very active in stamp collecting in the Ohio Valley area of West Virginia, founding the Ohio Valley Stamp Club in Wheeling, West Virginia, in 1935.

Douglas Hyde

United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt called President Hyde a "fine and scholarly old gentleman", while President Hyde and King George V corresponded about stamp collecting.

Postage stamps and postal history of Japan

Mackay, James. A. The World Encyclopedia of Stamps and Stamp Collecting.

W. Hamilton Barnum

For his efforts in establishing the hobby of stamp collecting, Barnum was named to the American Philatelic Society Hall of Fame in 1942.

Walter McCoy

Walter R. McCoy (1880–1952), advocate of the hobby of stamp collecting