Stamp Collector

Across London from the Garrick Club

ince the time of the issue of the first postage stamp, and even for years before, collectors have searched and found items of interest, and then decided how to retain them. Hinges for stamps came early, in about 1868, but corners for mounting photographs that could also be used for envelopes and the letters inside, were later. And so glue became the agent to attach any paper-based item for retention, which did not allow for anything on the reverse to be

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