Crossword-Solution: PHILATELY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Philately | n. | The collection of postage stamps of various issues. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “PHILATELY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Donahue's hobby? | 1 answer |
| Hobby akin to numismatics | 1 answer |
| Hobby of our thirty-second President. | 1 answer |
| POSTAGE stamp collecting | 1 answer |
| Popular hobby | 1 answer |
| Stamp collecting | 1 answer |
| The practice of collecting stamps | 1 answer |
| the collection and study of postage stamps | 1 answer |
| A BATTER COLLECTING RUNS | 10 answers |
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Sentences with PHILATELY (5)
There was the moral pleasure of having both outwitted a railway company and secured another specimen for my collection; and there was the physical pleasure of making a limp slip of paper stick to a hard substance--that simple pleasure which appeals to all of us and is, perhaps, the missing explanation of philately.
Bossakiewicz, in his _Manuel du Collectionneur de Timbres Poste_ says: "A dancing nymph, belonging to the secondary order of Hindu divinities and known as an _apsara_." Here is a problem which the next convert to philately may undertake to solve.
Correctly speaking, a surcharge is an added charge, but in philately the term is applied to a variety of overprints, the majority of which indicate a reduction rather than an increase in value.
Every new phase of recreation from playgrounds to philately presently has its countrywide association.
King refers was proved to be a forgery as shown by the following extract from the _American Journal of Philately_ for 1891:-- There is no longer any mystery in regard to the origin of that _great rarity!_ the perforated 6 pence on laid paper, these stamps having been perforated for four or five years in the shop of Messrs.
Quotes with PHILATELY (3)
We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately (...) To games or needles, to some other person.
This is the gift of focus, or wilful denial, and it is something boys are particularly good at. Girls — at least where I grew up — tend to be more emotionally balanced and sane, and therefore find the kind of all-excluding concentration you need to care about dinosaurs, taxonomy, philately and geopolitical schemes a bit worrying and sad. Girls can grasp the bigger picture (i.e., it might be better not to destroy the world over this), where boys have a perfect grip on the fine…
Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the ages of eight and ten I collected avidly. I'd pore over my Stanley Gibbons book, obsessively checking my collection's value. I always hoped I'd stumble across a really valuable one, a Penny Black or an Inverted Jenny, but it wasn't to be.
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1949–2012).