He was one of the "Fathers of Philately" entered on the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1921.
Centro de hoja or Center of the sheet is a kind of Cuban postage stamps where there are intersecting gutters between four panes of stamps.
An organization called the Society for the Suppression of Speculative Stamps (sometimes called the Society for the Suppression of Spurious Stamps) was created in protest over the creation of this set, deeming the Exposition in Chicago insufficiently important to be honored on postage, while some collectors balked at the Post Office Department's willingness to profit from the growing hobby of philately.
Herman “Pat” Herst, Jr. (1909–1999), philatelist and writer of books on philately.
Jean-Pierre Mangin (born 26 October 1937) is a French philatelist specialized in finding error in the design of postage stamps.
Boker was able to put together some of the finest collections of rare postage stamps ever seen in philately, with his German States collection probably being his finest.
Major James Starr (1870 – March 13, 1948), of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was one of the earliest philatelists who collected, studied, and wrote on, stamps of China.
The National Philatelic Museum was unusual in that, in conjunction with nearby Temple University, it offered courses in philately through its Philatelic Institute.
In philately a parcel stamp is a stamp specifically issued to pay the fee for the transport of a parcel through the postal system and usually marked as such.
Peter P. McCann, of University Park, Florida, is a philatelist who has supported the hobby of philately on a national scale.
Karelia has appeared in philately several times; first as a breakaway republic from Soviet Russia in 1922, later when Eastern Karelia was occupied by Finland during the Continuation War of 1941 to 1944, and in the post-Soviet period when provisional stamps and cinderellas were issued.
Football, hockey, volleyball, basketball, cricket, athletics, cross-country running, swimming, gymnastics, canoeing, cycling, horse riding, mountaineering, parasailing, trekking (hiking), obstacles course, rifle shooting, boxing, NCC,karate,music clubs, literary clubs, theater arts, elocution, photography, fine arts, craftwork, philately, aero-modeling, ship-modeling, Marching band, Choir
In addition to founding and contributing to Japanese philatelic journals, Baron Mitsui was an official advisor to the Japanese Communications Ministry and Postal Service Ministry, and also Honorary Counselor of the International Society for Japanese Philately.
Beckton was one of the Manchester School of philately which advocated the scientific study of all aspects of stamp production including paper, watermark, printing and perforation.
Yvert et Tellier is a postage stamp dealer and a philatelic publishing company founded in 1895 in the northern French city of Amiens, where the head office is still located.