Most serious stamp collectors have one or two main philatelic studies but frequently also a number of sideline fun collections with no ambitions of ever entering them in competitive stamp exhibitions. Some have told me that they derive far more pleasure from their sideline collections than from their gold medal exhibits, which have required heavy investments of both time and money.
But there are so many other enjoyable ways of collecting stamps and frequently at a most moderate cost (in fact, there are numerous philatelic areas that can be collected for next to nothing).
This writer is a general collector, meaning I collect all the countries of the world. This is, of course, a mission impossible as there are hundreds of thousands of stamps. My method is to limit my collection to the stamps I find interesting, and which are within my financial possibilities. This actually means that I am quite happy with less than 50 or 100 different stamps from a country that has issued many thousands.
Uruguay is probably not one of the more popular countries in
