Joan Tittle: Stamp Collector

Meet a Postal Service groupie, the woman who will collect every stamp

"...Tittle is a stamp collector, though collector is too dull a word to describe her pursuit. A few years after she retired from being a high school gym teacher in 1993, she began traveling around the country attending as many “first day of issue” ceremonies as possible. Civil War stamps, Kwanzaa stamps, Joe DiMaggio stamps — she wants them all. And not just the stamps. Tittle collects the souvenir envelopes the stamps come in..."    

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PIMCO Founder Bill Gross Selling $3M Portion of Stamp Collection to Benefit Smithsonian Museum

"...Estimated to bring $3 million in an auction in New York City on Thursday, November 19, 2009, many of the 214 Civil War-era Confederate States and early Canadian postage stamps are one-of-a-kind or the finest known...."    

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Presidential stamp collector awaits Inauguration

"...George's stamp collection, which once belonged to his mother-in-law, includes stamps that commemorate the Inaugurations of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and JFK.
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