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    COLLECTING FOR BEGINNERS

    Nov 13, 2020 2 minutes

    If the philatelic world is a garden, then Christmas stamps are its weeds. You open a beautiful new box of kiloware, chock-full of commemoratives, only to notice that half of them have the grinning face of Santa. Quick: winnow them and start composting… by which I mean shoving them into another envelope and working out who to foist them upon.

    Why are Christmas stamps so often valueless? It’s

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