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Timbrology, the collection of postage stamps.

Roxbrough

Roxbrough

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Timbrology,
Main Entry: timbrology
Part of Speech: n
Definition: the study of postage stamps
Etymology: French timbre 'postage stamp'



Philately; The Study of stamps
These can be the metal type used to imprint wax or the metal type used to imprint metal.
Can an adminstrator please remove the incorrect heading for my message, which I did not write?
 
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For those who don't know timbrology is a very unfashionable word for the study of postage stamps. It fell out of use in the 1860's and the current accepted term is Philately.
 
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I changed it so that it was clearer for people (like me) who don't know what the word means.

I looked it up on Wikipedia

The word "philately" is the English version of the French word "philatélie", coined by Georges Herpin in 1864.[2] Herpin stated that stamps had been collected and studied for the previous six or seven years and a better name was required for the new hobby than timbromanie, which was disliked.[3] He took the Greek root word phil or philo, meaning an attraction or affinity for something, and ateleia, meaning "exempt from duties and taxes" to form "philatelie".[4] The introduction of postage stamps meant that the receipt of letters was now free of charge, whereas before stamps it was normal for postal charges to be paid by the recipient of a letter.

The alternative terms "timbromania", "timbrophily" and "timbrology" gradually fell out of use as philately gained acceptance during the 1860s.[3]
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From this I determined that while I did not know timbrology I certainly was familiar with philately. So I changed the title so as to avoid further confusion.

The rest of the article also makes interesting reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philately
 
I used to collect stamps. I think it was somewhere between 3rd and 5th grade.

I still remember the Hungarian "Magyar Posta" stamps.

Nowadays I collect other stuff.
 
I remember, back then, my sister collected many stamps, which I found weird, but seeing documentary about that, I was astound. How people pay such attention to things like that, it's just like collecting coins from different years and places. Amazing.
 
My mom had a couple of big books of stamps which completely aroused my interest in collecting stamps as a hobby when they were found during house clean. They were going to go on the garage sale but I begged her to let me keep it and since then I collected stamps until it wasn't cool to do so anymore so I stopped at 15. I still have my books just in the garage somewhere. Maybe the story will repeat with my children one day when I clean out the garage
 
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