Last updated on July 17, 2019
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Stamp Collecting: Philately-The King of Hobbies is indeed a fascinating one. Stamp collecting has today become one of the most popular hobbies in the world. This post has been published to give you a glimpse into its history and developments.
It covers the philatelist’s role, first day covers, the story of Rowland Hill the father of the postage stamp, rare stamps and even a section on the US President Franklin Roosevelt and his love for the hobby Philately-The King of Hobbies.
This Knol post is the joint efforts of P V Ariel, Gust MEES,
Knol Publishing Guild (KPG), Carl phi, and Patrick Lahaye.
Also There are two reviews written by Peter Baskerville, and Dr. Shastri J C Philip. You can read that here at this links. “Outstanding work” – “Authoritative, Exhaustive, and Exceedingly Interesting”
Philately-The King of Hobbies
Stamp collecting has today become one of the most popular hobbies in the world. It is widely known as “The king of Hobbies and the Hobby of Kings”, even though Kings and Maharajas have now become a historical object. The last three kings of England were keen collectors as is the present Queen. In the United States, former President Franklin Roosevelt was a stalwart in philately and ex-president Ford was a secret stamp collector. Over the years, Kings, Queens, Politicians, poor, rich, business persons, accountants, film stars, scientists and many others in different field have pursued this hobby with keen interest. In short, children, young, old and everyone is involved in this hobby irrespective of their age or positions. It truly is correctly called ‘Philately-The King of Hobbies.
Philately and the Philatelist
“Stamp collecting is an orderly hobby and my album is the only place I know at the moment where the nations of the world stick together peaceably”.
Philately And First Day Covers
Evolution of the stamp
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In the beginning the charge for transmission of letters—postage—was calculated in a complicated way. The dispatcher would take the letter to the post office. There the person in charge would weigh it or sometimes the number of page will be counted and then the distance the letter had to travel will be calculated accordingly the postage charge is charged. If the postage is paid in advance ‘pre-paid’ the postal official would mark the charge on the letter in red and black. Sometimes if the money was to be recovered from the addressee, most of the time it leads to losses as payment was refused or letter was rejected. This lead people to find some new method of simplifying the tiresome mail system.
Father of the adhesive postage stamp
Rowland Hill’s Postal Reforms
Stamp collecting – an exciting hobby
Sports Events Depicted on Stamps |
In present stressful world stamps and it study or collection gives a soothing or relaxing experience. In a routine and mechanical way of life, stamps play an important role to bring a tense situation into a relaxed and refreshed situation. Philately like a miracle tonic refreshes the mind and heart of the individuals.
President Roosevelt in connection with this hobby.
RARE STAMPS
The latest Economic Times reports says that this best-known of all unique stamps, the 1856 “British Guiana 1 cent Magenta,” has been locked away in a vault since 1980 when it was bought for nearly $1 million by John du Pont. The heir to the du Pont chemical fortune. The report further says he is currently serving a 13- to 30-year sentence for third degree murder case”
The Swedish ‘Treskilling Yellow’ is considered- among the world’s most valuable objects pound for pound Credit Telegraph. Photo: EPA |
“One of world’s rarest stamps, (The Swedish “Treskilling Yellow”) is going up for auction this weekend and could fetch a record-breaking price, the head of a Geneva auction house said.
2 CENTS HAWAIIAN MISSIONARIES STAMP
Yet another variety of rare stamps are the “Hawaii Missionaries”. Hawaii brought out these stamps in 2.5 and 13 cents in the year 1851. They were printed locally at Honolulu and were very primitive. Unfortunately after the printing were these stamps were stored got fire and destroyed. However few stamps had already been sold to the missionaries to post their letters to U S A. Consequently this set of stamps became rare and costly.
INDE DAWK HALF ANNA STAMP THE FIRST INDIAN AND FIRST ASIAN STAMP
Scinde Dawk Half Anna Stamp The First Indian and Asian Stamp
QUEEN VICTORIA STAMP
QUEEN VICTORIA STAMP WITH INVERTED HEAD
UNCIRCULATED HALF ANNA STAMP
BAPU (GANDHI) STAMP
Another rare Indian stamp is the Mahatma Gandhi or Bapu series of Rs.10.00 Service Postage Stamp. This was specially printed of the use of the late Governor General Shri Rajagopalachari. Only hundred stamps were issued and today only a few specimens are available.
FIRST AIR POST
“Outstanding work” – “Authoritative, Exhaustive, and Exceedingly Interesting” Reviews of “The Fascinating Story of Philately—the King of Hobbies”
A Review of my Knol The Fascinating Story of Philately by Peter Baskerville, The Knol Author/Course Facilitator – Entrepreneurship Education, Australia.

A Screeshot of the review by Peter Baskerville |
Sources
Source: World Book.
- http://Google.com
- http://wikiepediafreeencyclopedia.com
- http://stampListing.com
- http://Stamps2Go.com
- video credit to YouTube . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HMYcUxL4PU
- deborahswain
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL2msXdTmDw
* Economic Times, Times of India, Telegraph, Associated Predd.
Comments/Feedback Received
This Knol Is a Trending Knol Today (09.08.11)
This Knol is a trending knol today, with in few hours it crossed 500 page views.
Thanks to all. A special thanks to Gust for the update.
Best Regards
Phil
Help Help Help!!!
Today while I was just adjusting something in this knol something went wrong and the setting/alignment went wrong. pl do check and do the needful.
Sorry for the inconvenience caused to you.
Best regards,
Phil
Hakuna Matata
I Did It
Thanks
Phil
Hi Phil,OK, I will have a look now. Before I can edit You must stop editing yourself, please. It is not possible that 2 persons edit at the same time. I am waiting now 5 minutes and then I will start to edit, Ok?
Have a nice day and best regards,
Gust
Phil
Hi Phil,OK, I did the necessary adjustments, should be alright again. I changed also the pic (image) for the Knol Landing Page, it shows now the “Penny Black” which is better to display as it shows a stamp…
Have a nice day and best regards,
Gust
Thanks a lot for the effort you put in, it looks excellent now. Hauna Matata.
Best regards
Phil
Hi Phil,Hakuna Matata…
Have a nice day and best regards,
Gust
Pakistan Philately
Akhtar ul Islam Siddiqui
Thanks a lot for your time.
I am extremely sorry I missed this comment, and i could not respond to it before.
Yes, I really missed my neighboring country and its Philately side, we will definitely add some info about its in this knol very shortly with due credit to your page.
Keep in touch
Keep inform
Best regards
Philip
Happy New Year and proposition…
Hi ALL,My best wishes for the New Year to ALL of you http://goo.gl/4Elzu.
@Phil: An idea??? What about to bring in this knol also YouTube videos about Stamp Collections, there are a lot anyway, such as: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXJqD5IRWRA&feature=related and many more…
If You agree, please make your choice and bring in the videos, I will later on create the tables and publish the videos on the known format as we did already a lot of times together ;-)
Have a nice day and best regards,
Gust
Its really an encouraging thing to receive such uplifting thoughtsin the beginning of the year,
Sure Gust, its a great idea, I will come back to you later today with more detail.
With love and regards for the New Year 2011
Have a Good day
Yours
phil
Thanks Carlphi & Gust
@Carl thanks for the additional information.
@Gust thanks for the text alignment and design
Best
Have a Good day
Phil
Workflow…
Hi,I made few changes in text alignment and on high lightning in bold some very important text…
@Carl,
I displayded also your new stamp photo on the beginning of the text, it looks better ;-)
Have all a nice Sunday and best regards,
Gust
Philately Now is Stamp of Class and Money
The Times of India’s latest report says: “Philately Now is Stamp of Class and Money”
I just added the information, will post the rest later today.
Thanks
Carlphi
Workflow 2…
Hi Phil and other authors,Excuse me, please. But there are some images without a link to the source (copyright must be credited), sorry.
Have a nice day and best regards,
Gust
Those pics are taken from the Word Book encyclopedia.
The Source credit is given at the bottom of the knol
Thanks Gust
Do I mention this at the bottom of the pics too?
Best
Phili
Hi Phil,Best way is every time to mention the copyright on the bottom of the pics.
Have a nice day and best regards,
Gust
Workflow 2…
Hi Phil and other authors,Excuse me, please. But there are some images without a link to the source (copyright must be credited), sorry.
Have a nice day and best regards,
Gust
New workflow…
Hi Phil and other authors,I brought in some new content as a new section: http://knol.google.com/k/the-fascinating-story-of-philately-the-king-of-hobbies#World_Federation_Of_Stamp_Collection_Members.
This is as we in Europe see things, sorry for mentioning this, don’t take that wrong please ;-) We in Europe are a bit more precise, we are more perfectionists as others ;-) Especially in my country Luxembourg (remember that You told me to be “harsh”, which is nothing else than having an other perfectionist way and experience and expertise of certain things), remember please some collaborative knols, such as:
– Knol For A Better World: http://knol.google.com/k/gust-mees/for-a-better-world/1ibdy1vf6wghd/332?collectionId=vdujwtjyx3uq.67&position=5&sort=1
– Tolerance: http://knol.google.com/k/moharram-khalifa/tolerance/1ibdy1vf6wghd/296
– Happiness: http://knol.google.com/k/moharram-khalifa/happiness/1ibdy1vf6wghd/294
and others… (maybe You will get the feeling [mentality] of other countries and continents later on by being part of a Team of different nationalities and mentalities ;-)
Try to take the Best out of it and it will be such easy later on to understand different mentalities and characters of different countries and continents.
BTW: what You said being “harsh” is nothing else as being “too much severe”, sorry, as it is my job to give courses so Do I also on Knol and I should be less severe as well sometimes ;-)
Have a nice day and best regards,
Gust
Useful Computer Software section included…
Hi Phil and co-authors,I have included a new section “Useful Computer Software For Stamp Collections”, hope you like it ;-)
Have a nice weekend and best regards,
Gust
Thanks a lot for the additional information.
That is really good, and I am sure it will be
very useful to the new age stamp collectors.
Keep up the good work my dear friend.I wish you the same: Have a wonderful Weekend.
Best
Phil
Hi Phil,I have created a new knol together with fellow authors “For A Better World”- A Multicultural Knol:
http://knol.google.com/k/gust-mees/for-a-better-world/1ibdy1vf6wghd/332#.
Please have a look and let us know your opinion and maybe being part of it…
Best regards,
Gust
Congrats!!!
Bird’s stamp ?
Yes I really missed many such thematic subjects.
I have a good collection on thematic collections.
Thanks for reminding this
Best
Philip
Hi Raj,thanks for your encouraging comment.
Best regards,
Gust
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Workflow…
Hi Phil,I found something which needed to get changed, so I did. Text aligned and a correction of a word in French…
Best regards,
Gust
Amazing World of Philately
The world of stamps are as you said is really fascinating, it is really good to visit this knol, happy to read more of your knols, You did a good research on this job.
Well designed and very useful for the stamp collectors,
I too used to collect stamps in my early days, i have a good collection too, spending time with it is really so soothing. The days are gone and now we are living in the speed age called the internet age and people are so mechanical that no time to spend on such hobbies, But good to know that there are people still love collecting stamps and writing about it.
Great work, as one of the reviewers wrote this is an outstanding knol.
My Five star to this knol
Good Wishes
Carl
best regards
p v
SCINDE DAWK HALF ANNA STAMP THE FIRST INDIAN AND FIRST ASIAN STAMP FOR SALE.
If anybody is interested please contact Mr. Vikrant at his contact Cell Number.
Thanks Vikarnt for visiting this knol
Best Wishes
PhilipVikrant’s Comment.”I have SCINDE DAWK HALF ANNA STAMP THE FIRST INDIAN AND FIRST ASIAN STAMP ………if any one want to purchase this stamp contact me…………”Vikrant Agarwal
+91-7669663839
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Our S M Button is doing a wonderful job here :-)
I am really happy to note that many knol users are using this button and it working very well
Keep inform
Best
philip
@PVA – I just saw your page views – more than 4000 weekly page views
Congratulations in Advance. You are going to cross 100,000 page views before 30th June.Included your name as the third in line this month for this knol honors.
http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-k-v-s-s/knol-author-news-june-2010/2utb2lsm2k7a/2577#
Thanks again for the the note in the knol
Best Regards
Philip
World’s ‘Rarest’ Stamp Sold for a Record Price
I just incorporated a news item with a photograph,
courtesy Telegraph, UK, Economic Times India.
With Best Regards,
Philip Ariel
Hi Phil,Great information ;-) And this shows people also what a little bit of paper is worth, and what Philately is…
Best regards,
Gust
Thanks you very much for the comment and the design revision.
Best
Philip
Banner integrated…
Hi Philip,As You invited me to be a co-author, I accepted with pleasure, thanks. You also wanted to have a Banner integrated from Patrick LAHAYE. I did this now as well, with a link to Pat’s Graphics and Logo Design knol. I hope You like it?
Best regards and have a nice week-end.
Gust
So delighted to see the banner, Thank you so much for the time you shared for this, and thank you again for joining me in this knol as a co-author.
Yes it has come out very well.
I heartily reciprocate the wishes
Have a Happy Week-end
Good Wishes
philip
Hi Philip,KPG’s members like to help out Quality Knol authors ;-) Keep on going the good work…
Happy Easter.
Best Regards,
Gust
Season’s Greetings
Philip
Hi Philip,As I don’t know realy (a little bit I do) the signification about different celebrated religious days, wouldn’t it be good to start a knol about it? You and maybe other authors? An international knol, bringing together different international authors with different religious thinking? Think about it and have a look around on knol authors, which You could try to bring together in an collaborative knol about that subject… I will not write at that knol, but would be available for web design and more, as made on Your Philately Knol. Is this idea worth a try? Please, let me know…
Easter is celebrated by all (?) the religions (as far as I know?), trying to bring together authors won’t make something bad?
Best regards,
Gust
That is a good idea, but, Its a BIG BUT , LOL In some celebrations for example Easter or Christmas there are a lot of difference of opinion even among Christians, when most celebrates at the same time equally a good number of people do not give much importance to such celebrations. in such cases there is a good chance of differences of opinion and that may lead to a big debate or discussion, BUT at the same time instead of going into such aspect as you said we can bring together such ideas in one platform as a presentation of celebrated religious days. gust, if you don’t mind pl send a mail to this id pvariel AT G Mail Dot Com, want to convey something more on this line
Best Wishes
philip
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Hi Philip,You are right. No personal ideas, but just a knol about different religious celebration days. That was what I meant anyway ;-) As I mentioned already, I will not go in for writing but will help for web design and graphics and more, but not for writing… It is only an idea to approach people in knol, not more. I’m not somebody who wants to change the world ;-)
Best regards,
Gust
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Hi Philip,It was only an idea, don’t take it too serious, please. Forget about it ;-)
Season’s Greetings.
Best regards,
Gust
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Thanks for the quick response, yes, its a good idea, i will take up this project and will work on it will come back to you soon for further help. Thanks for your suggestions
Best
Philip
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Great article, PV
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Keep us inform.
Best Wishes
PV
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Hi Anonymous,First of all. Anonymous is not worth to trust, so change to a public name and photo ;-)
2.) Your link is not welcome, sorry. Don’t use Knol to Spam comments, please, thanks do do so.
3.) The link where You want to hijack our authors and readers is not trusted, You may see this here:
http://www.mywot.com/fr/scorecard/shop.ytb.com
So, please look for an other place to bring in your Spam and links they are not worth to visit ;-)
Or more friendly in case if I misunderstood your message:
Please delete the link of that web site which You are showing. That web site is not trusted.
Bye, bye…
@Phil,
Please delete this message and when that Anonymous user is coming back again with more links, than use the “Block” button.
Best regards,
Gust
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Hope you understood what Mr. Gust said, pl do that, t
yes,there are some online shopping for stamps, pl remove the backlink as Gust said.
with kind regards
Phil
@ Gust, as you said
Bye now
Phil
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I love it!
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Hello,Congrats for the “Top Pick” award from KPG.
Appreciate your patience for unearthing rare information and threading them here at one place.
Regards,
Suhas
The ‘top pick’ is done by the knol management not by KPG,
Keep reading and air your voice
Best Rgds.
Philip
Congratulation
You want that I create you a banner?Yours sincerely,
Patrick
Phil
I just created another knol in Malayalam, An invitation to my Malayalee brethren to knol pages to share their knowledge. Pat i want to place a knol banner for this purpose as usual your knol banners, pl place these letters ie മലയാളം let the word knol be in English and the given word ie malayalam
after the creation if you don’t mind pl. place it at the appropriate place. knol is in moderate collo.
Thanks In advance
Best
Philip
http://knol.google.com/k/p-v-ariel/ന-ങ-ങള-ക-ക-ഒര-ന-ള-എഴ-ത-ത-ക-രന-ക/12c8mwhnhltu7/221
Congratulations!
Making a contribution to knowledge is a great thing. Making is substantial is greater still.You have worked hard, and have won what your work deserves. Congratulations!
— Shastri
regards
philip
+91-7669663839
Congratulations Philip – A ‘Top Pick’ Knol
Now this is a quality Knol … and recognised as such by the Knol management with a ‘Top Pick’ award. Well done Philip, and to Knol Publishing Guild’s team meember Gust Mees who contributed significantly to the ‘look and feel’.Philip you have a new benchmark to reach to each time you write a Knol. Well done.
Thanks to one and all
Best Rgds,
Philip
Congrats!
Hi mesjay,I was in my young years ;-)
Best regards,
Gust
Other ideas
Great Knol Philip. The KPG (Gust) have done a good job getting the ‘look and feel’ right but there needs to be more work. It needs external links. Aim at 40. Give the readers a chance to add to their knowledge on the topic. Where possible link to educational sites (*.edu) or government sites (*.gov) or organisation sites (*.org).Also there must be a good Youtube on stamp collections or collecting. Find one you like and add it to the end.
I would also go into the ‘settings’ and turn off the checkbox ‘Table of contents’. You want your readers engaged with your content in the opening screen of the Knol.
Great effort. 5*
Added a few links to give you the idea of what is needed. According to Jag … keep your SEO topic consistent and in the title, subtitle, first header, and first section. Yours is ‘Philately-The King of Hobbies’. You should mention this through out the article.Also removed the table of contents, getting the reader straight into the contents.
You have already published this content at Associatedcontent so you will need to work on the text to make it different. It is not good SEO to have exactly the same content on two or more sites.
Good point KPG.You need to make some alter to the content, may be you can explain some points to make the content different from Associatedcontent.
Have the H tags for heading and interlink between content for users and search engine to make the anchor text strong.
Note: If you don’t get the meaning for some tech stuff mentioned here, feel free to refer one of my Knol “How to improve Knol using SEO”.
Best,
Jag
Bio: http://knol.google.com/k/jagadeesh-m/jagadeesh-m-nambiar-biography/1m1scw95niudm/28
I wish I had time to help, Philip. Stamp collecting was my leading hobby as a teenager. When I get less busy, I’ll be happy to play editor to improve the text, syntax and flow. Best wishes,Murry
Best Rgds.
Philip
Gust
As you suggested I just added a video on stamp collecting.. Oh! my Go..who’s this gentleman n the video? Hey, is this you? Oh my Go.. a look alike. LOL :-) :-) :-)
philip
Your request for Help
Hi PV Ariel,You requested for getting some Help for your knol. If You won’t mind, I will jump in for the general presentation (design) and trying to get your knol differently arranged (for better, I hope).
I You agree, so accept my modifications please. I only can go further on the job after You accepted my changes and also that I could see what I have done…
Best regards and a nice Sunday,
Gust
Thanks a lot for the kind concern for my request. I accept and agree to all your presentation design, correction etc with great pleasure.
I appreciate your help in improving this knol, i invite you as an author to this knol.
I reciprocate the wishes.
Best Rgds.
Philip Ariel
Hi Philip,It is OK, I found the way now to edit your knol without being an author. There were little start problems, KPG is new and I should get used to it as well. I will make the changes in different steps, so don’t worry… First I need to bring everything in a good presentation way with sections and also with the same fonts and also the “font-alignment” and than I will try to optimize your knol for SEO, respecting the Knol guidelines. I will continue tomorrow (in my country it is now nearly 2PM)…
Best regards,
Gust
Thanks again, for your effort to promote this knol, no worries, take your own time.
Best
philip
Hi Philip,Thanks for Your invitation as co-author of this knol which I accepted with pleasure, but only after doing the work as a member of KPG ;-)
Please have also a look on the review from Peter BASKERVILLE, where I left You also a comment:
http://knol.google.com/k/peter-baskerville/review-of-the-fascinating-story-of/12c8mwhnhltu7/218#
I have also integrated the Banner from Patrick LAHAYE, who is also a member of KPG.
Best regards,
Gust
Great!
Thank you very much for drawing my attention to this article. It turned to be superb! This is the kind of articles that we need on Knols.Since it is in creative commons, I will be using it on Numis Indica, next issue.
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Fascinating And Amazing
Dear Readers, Your Attention Please!
In short, Philipscom will not approve comments that
Check your domain ranking
Mr Ariel
Good you migrated to blogspot. How could you transfer even comments from Knol to here? Interesting. You explain the process in a blogpost and give the link in Knol Help page.
Hi Raogaaru,
Thanks a lot for you time to drop in here and for the valuable suggestion.
Actually this knol i transferred here even before knol’s notification on our pages.
The published date tells it all.
I did this manually.
Best Regards
Keep infom
Best Regards
Ariel
Thank you for the answer. I got a similar answer from another tech person also. Manual migration. I also did for around 50 knols. I am getting now 50 page views for the blog. I need to get 4000 page views per day and transfer many articles and therefore has to understand some automatic methods of posting. Let us see who comes out with a solution. WordPress gives xml files it seems. That is what AKM suggested. First transfer to WordPress and then transfer to Blogger those knols which you want to transfer. Let us see. There is lot of time.
as per your suggestion i created a blog on this line http://pvariel.blogspot.com/2011/11/knol-pages-opened-its-wings-and.html
after the post i received another notification from Gust Mees and Barry about the migration. Barry is able to do the migration successfully, I mentioned this in my blog as a Post Script.
Yes. We have enough time,
Best Regards and Happy Migration.
Hello Web Admin, I noticed that your On-Page SEO is is missing a few factors, for one you do not use all three H tags in your post, also I notice that you are not using bold or italics properly in your SEO optimization. On-Page SEO means more now than ever since the new Google update: Panda. No longer are backlinks and simply pinging or sending out a RSS feed the key to getting Google PageRank or Alexa Rankings, You now NEED On-Page SEO. So what is good On-Page SEO?First your keyword must appear in the title.Then it must appear in the URL.You have to optimize your keyword and make sure that it has a nice keyword density of 3-5% in your article with relevant LSI (Latent Semantic Indexing). Then you should spread all H1,H2,H3 tags in your article.Your Keyword should appear in your first paragraph and in the last sentence of the page. You should have relevant usage of Bold and italics of your keyword.There should be one internal link to a page on your blog and you should have one image with an alt tag that has your keyword….wait there’s even more Now what if i told you there was a simple WordPress plugin that does all the On-Page SEO, and automatically for you? That’s right AUTOMATICALLY, just watch this 4minute video for more information at. Seo Plugin
Very interesting post on stamp collection. Everything about philately is well explained in this post.
Thanks a lot.
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