Discover Your World With a Postage Stamp - Philately

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A world of opportunity opens up when you start to learn about a stamp. Philately takes something that you may generally take for granted to a whole other level. One of the more interesting educational hobbies, philately teaches us about history, geography, politics, and art, all inside the borders of a postage stamp.

Philately concerns the who, what, where’s, and whys of the small picture, making it much larger. For instance, some collections might include one or more of these categories:

• Olympics
• Sports figures
• Wildflowers
• A certain country
• National treasures
• Political figures
• Comic book characters
• Aircraft

It’s a lot of fun to talk with your children about these stamps. Far more compelling than just the removal of the paper from the back of the stamp, philately is a way of engaging in the past through pictorial imagery, and preserving it for the future.

Educational hobbies like philately are wonderful to hand from generation to generation. Happy collecting!

Visit USPS Stamp Collecting to learn more.

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