Stamp collecting is a bizzare hobby to me even though its one of the world's most popular hobbies
It does seems to be scraping the barrel of hobbies you could have.
Yeah, and the list is always changing with interests and fashions.  Seems a strange one to stand the test of time.
I heard it was a big source of income for some countries, who create limited runs of elaborate designs mainly just for collectors.
Yeah, the people that make the stamps get a net profit from selling specifically to collector that won't use them.
The first one was the Penny Black , and was issued by Britain in 1840 with a picture of Queen Victoria.
The Victorian area is my favorite literary era! It ran until 1901 
I buy some that come out, like Jimmy Hendrix and other ones of people or things I like.