About Stamp Dealers : Page 48


philatelists in a common effort to attract others to thehobby and thus enlarge their ranks. The advantage tothe dealer of having more collectors for possible clientsis obvious. Not quite so obvious are the advantages to thecollector, yet the motivating force behind all such effortsarises from the common desire, of professional andamateur alike, to do all of these things for the generalgood.

View of an American Stamp Dealers Association (ASDA) show.

Figure 27. View of an American Stamp Dealers Association (ASDA) show.

Perhaps in no other business in the world is there soclose a bond between professional and amateur.

How did they get that way? A fair question.

Primarily, I think, because every dealer at heart is acollector. He must be, because the financial rewards of

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