stamp collecting
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For the historian Peter Gay, born in Berlin in 1923, stamp collecting was an “invisible barrier that cut him off from the Nazi-dominated city,” Irwin writes; Gay called the hobby an “island of order.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Some compare the stamp collecting to a blessed version of baseball cards.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 2023
This is more humiliating than being turned away from a stamp collecting convention for being too nerdy.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2023
But new surveillance technologies must not lead to what Van Kerkhove calls “a stamp collecting exercise”: simply identifying the hundreds of thousands of viruses in wild and captive animals.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 5, 2023
With the start of the Cultural Revolution all the stamp shops were closed down, because stamp collecting was considered bourgeois.
From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang
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