In past years if one was an authority on philately, owned an outstanding stamp collection, he had only the value of his albums and the knowledge of his own virtue to console him. To correct this condition a group of Chicago stamp lovers met recently, subscribed the sum of $3,000, the income of which was to award two medals annually: one to the owner of the most important stamp collection of the year, the other to the author of the year's most important contribution to philatelic knowledge, both medals to be memorials...
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