What is a Stamp Collection?
Many years ago, a young man from a prominent family was working on his Eagle Badge for the Boy Scouts, and wanted to add a merit badge for stamp collecting. He bought a large number of stamps, put them into a stock book, and proudly went off to the home of the Merit Badge counsellor for approval. He was dismayed when the counsellor refused to sign the document that he had met the requirements for the merit badge. Unfortunately, he’d failed to understand one of the main tenets of collecting: It’s not enough just to have a lot of like objects, but the objects have to be organized!
