{"product_id":"2940014152808","title":"Your Favorite Hobby - Stamp Collecting as Past Time","description":"Your Favorite Hobby - Stamp Collecting as Past Time\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStamp Collecting for Beginners, Advanced Collectors and Investors\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy you should seriously consider collecting stamps? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Person who allows himself no relaxation, no recreation, loses his energy, and ages earlier than the man who judiciously alternates work and play.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDear Friend,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany people are at a loss to understand the fascination that surrounds the pursuit of stamp collecting. They are surprised at the clannishness of stamp collectors, and their lifelong devotion to their hobby. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey are thunderstruck at the enormous prices paid for rare stamps, and at the fortunes that are spent and made in stamp collecting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book, Stamp Collecting will afford a peep behind the scenes, and explain how it is that, after nearly over a century and a half of existence, stamp collecting has never been more popular than it is today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you are in search of a hobby I assure you none is more attractive or more satisfying than stamp collecting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe literature of stamp collecting is more abundant than that devoted to any other hobby. You can find these volumes almost everywhere. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGovernments and statesmen recognize, unsolicited, the claims of stamp collecting—the power, the influence, and the wealth that it commands. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom a mere schoolboy pastime it has steadily developed into an engrossing hobby for the leisured and the busy of all classes and all ranks of life, from the royals to the errand boy in the merchant's office.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the competition of modern life it is recognized that those who must work must also play. The physician assures us that the man who allows himself no relaxation, no recreation, loses his energy, and ages earlier than the man who judiciously alternates work and play.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs stamp collecting may be indulged in by all ages, and at all seasons, it is becoming more and more the favorite indoor relaxation with brain-workers. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt may be taken up or laid down at any time, and at any stage. Its cost may be limited to few cents or dollars, and it may be made a pleasant pursuit or an engrossing study, or it may even be diverted into money-making purposes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo absorbing is the hobby that in stamp circles there is a saying, \"Once a stamp collector, always a stamp collector.\"","brand":"Dawn Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47083570397424,"sku":"2940014152808","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014152808_p0.jpg?v=1763608597","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014152808","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}