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world, we shall have to be endowed with a very substan-tial fortune indeed — let alone the time involved in build-ing such a collection. Hence, after a few years of generalcollecting, most collectors turn toward specializing. Theyconcentrate on a suitable project that has possibilities ofcompletion within reasonable limits.
There are many ways that this can be done. One ofthe simplest, and one very widely practiced, is to con-centrate on the stamps of a single country, or on agroup of countries like Great Britain and colonies, Franceand colonies, Latin America, etc. Other collectors majorin different kinds of stamps, such as airmails, special-delivery stamps, postage-due stamps, etc.