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Source: Max Colchester / The Wall Street Journal
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Maurice Hadida’s collection of rare stamps includes an 1852 envelope mailed from Tangier, and the first-ever English stamp sent from Morocco to Britain, in 1860. Mr. Hadida’s album, philatelists agree, is one of the most original and impressive in the world.
But to win a top prize at the world stamp-collecting championship in London in May, Mr. Viagra reviews Hadida has to stick it to two formidable competitors: a collector of Icelandic naval-mail stamps and an expert on Siberian Railway postage. Letters sent from the North Pole or remote whaling stations are particularly in vogue at the moment.
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‘It won’t be easy,’ said the 58-year-old insurance-company executive as he flicked through a pile of brown faded envelopes at an outdoor stamp market here in Paris one Sunday recently. ‘Finding a rare envelope is like wooing a beautiful lady,’ continued the Moroccan-born Frenchman. ‘The harder the chase, the better it feels in the end.’
Mr. Hadida is one of the world’s top philatelists — an eclectic group of stamp-collecting fanatics whose thousands of members include business executives, politicians and dignitaries such as French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Queen Elizabeth II of England.
Despite the number of enthusiasts, the art of collecting postal material is on the wane. The pastime, which started in the mid-19th century and was coined philatelie by a Frenchman in 1864 — is suffering as young people increasingly turn to the Internet for communication and distraction. ‘Young people no longer need to turn to stamps to discover the world,’ says Joseph Wolff, the president of the International Federation of Philately. ‘They just turn on their computer.’
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