Stamp Collecting as a Pastime

ocieties and

collectors for the study of postage stamps, their history, engraving, and printing; the detection and prevention of forgeries and frauds; the p

ip roll are three princes, several earls, baronets, judges, barristers, medical men, officers in the Army and Navy, and many well-known merchants. This society has published costly works on the stamps of Great Britain, of the Australian Colonies, of the British Colonies of North America, of the West Indies, of India and Ceylon, and of Africa. It publishes an excellently-got-up monthly journal of its own, which

hich it keeps up to date, as a work of reference for its members. Several of the societies hold periodical exhibitions, in which members comp

f the secretaries are published at the commencement of

for the benefit of the less experienced, the result of their latest researches, and eminent specialists display their splendid and carefully-arranged collections for the inspection, edification, and enjoyment of the

ialist carefully guards his knowledge for his own ultimate personal profit. The Philatelist, on the other hand, is more frequently than not gene