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Last Update: March 11, 2008 |
| 24 February 2008 | 1915 Ahmad Shah Unissued Coronation Stamps ( تمبرهاي سلاطين) |
| 31 January 2008 | Study of Fake Lithographed Issue... (For detai please click here براي شرح بيشتر در اينجا کليک کنيد) |
| 19 December 2007 | We are in the process of adding Persian (Farsi) pages to our website. |
| 19 December 2007 | New price lists... (For detail please click here) |
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you know? Who wouldn't love something tax free? George Herpin did. He was a French stamp fancier back in the 1860s, when stamps were a fairly new invention. Before stamps, the recipient of a letter, not the sender, had to pay the postage. Stamps forced the sender to foot the bill, and created a lot of stamp lovers among folks on the receiving end of the mail-and a mania for stamp collecting. "Timbromania" from the French word "timbre" for stamp, was toyed with as a term to affix to this new hobby. But when Herpin suggested "philatélie" (anglicized to "philately"), combining the Greek root "phil-," meaning "loving," with Greek "ateleia," meaning "tax-exemption," stamp lovers everywhere took a fancy to it and the name stuck. |