Philately: Facts

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stockbooks (pictured) are often used by stamp collectors to store both postage stamps and other philatelic items such as plate blocks, miniature sheets, covers, and lettersheets?
Herbert Armitage James, who was headmaster of Rugby School for 14 years, had one of the best stamp collections in England?
David Feldman, philatelist, achieved the world’s record price of 2.5 million Swiss Francs for a single postage stamp, the Treskilling Yellow for which he appeared in the 1996 Guinness Book of World Records?
astrophilately is the area of philately connected with human spaceflight?

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