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The first postage stamp, the One Penny Black, was issued by Britain in 1840. It pictured a young Queen Victoria, was produced without perforations (imperforate), and consequently had to be cut from the sheet with scissors in order to be used. While unused examples of the "Penny Black" are quite scarce, used examples are common, and may be purchased for $25 to $150, depending upon condition.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamp_collecting#History
Hiroyuki Kanai: Japanese engineer-industrialist who bought, on November 3, 1993, a 183-page collection of classic Mauritian stamps for a record $10,145,269, at an auction held in Geneva, Switzerland. Of the 183 items in the Kanai collection, just four stamps account for 75% of the total value of the collection.
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Toy Story 2 (1999): directed by John Lasseter and Ash Brannon and starring the voices of Tom Hanks and Tim Allen. Tagline: The Toys Are Back! Plot Outline: When Woody is stolen by a toy collector, Buzz and his friends vow to rescue him, but Woody finds the idea of immortality in a museum tempting.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120363/
100: according to one definition, the number of years old an item must be to be considered an antique. It also must be collected or desirable due to rarity, condition, utility, or some other unique feature.
Note: the definition of antique varies from source to source, product to product and year to year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiques
A souvenir (from the French for "memory") is an object that is treasured for the memories associated with it. The term is used for items brought home from places visited. Such items are sometimes marked or engraved to indicate that their value is sentimental rather than practical (e.g., "A Souvenir from Clacton-on-Sea"). Souvenirs can include household items such as mugs and bowls, ashtrays, spoons and notepads, or clothing such as tee-shirts or hats.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorabilia
Collect The Diamonds by Q And Not U
See lyrics
Most valuable single stamp: sold at auction for $2, 240,000, the unique "Treskilling Yellow" stamp was back in the post after nearly 200 years in January 2001. This time it was inside the envelope - it was sent registered post to the Nordia 2001 stamp show in Tucson, USA.
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You shouldn’t need too much imagination to see that all of the following tongue twisters (a sentence or phrase that is intended to be difficult to say, especially when repeated quickly and often) are about collectors and collections! For example, the first one deals with a collection of sycamore saplings, in the second Peter Piper is obviously a pickled pepper-collector, toy collectors love model lorries of all colours and boats, and so on!
Six sick slick slim sycamore saplings.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers?
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
Red lorry, yellow lorry, red lorry, yellow lorry.
Toy boat. Toy boat. Toy boat.
She sells sea shells by the sea shore.
The shells she sells are surely seashells.
So if she sells shells on the seashore,
I'm sure she sells seashore shells.
Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.
Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches?
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
He would chuck, he would, as much as he could,
and chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would
if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
Ruby Rugby's brother bought and brought her
back some rubber baby-buggy bumpers.
Sarah saw a shot-silk sash shop full of shot-silk sashes
as the sunshine shone on the side of the shot-silk sash shop.
Betty and Bob brought back blue balloons from the big bazaar.
Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager
imagining managing an imaginary menagerie?
They both, though, have thirty-three thick thimbles to thaw.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8136/tonguetwisters.html
The Collector by John Fowles
The book is about a lonely young man, Frederick Clegg, who works as a clerk in a city hall, and collects butterflies in his free time.
Read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Collector
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories. (Walter Benjamin)
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)
SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read about themselves or employ others to collect. (Ambrose Bierce in The Devil's Dictionary)
The majority of those who put together collections of verses or epigrams resemble those who eat cherries or oysters: they begin by choosing the best and end by eating everything. (Nicolas Chamfort)
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