rare stamps

collocation in English

meaningsofrareandstamp

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rare
adjective
uk
/reər/us
/rer/
not common or frequent; ...
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stamp
noun
uk
/stæmp/us
/stæmp/
a small piece of paper with a picture or pattern on it that is stuck onto a letter or package before it is posted, to show that the cost of sending it has ...
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(Definition ofrareandstampfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Note that the cost of production may be close to zero, as with ararestamp, so that the entire price consists of scarcity rent.
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The philatelic wing displays valuable and rare stamps.
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Several extremely rare stamps from this period sometimes misidentified as coil waste were actually produced from the waste printing of sheet stamps.
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He expanded the collection with a number of high-priced purchases of rare stamps and covers.
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Recent studies show that alternative assets such as classic watches, rare stamps and fine wines outperformed during the last decade.
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The thief ignored rare stamps with a value of 3 million to steal the trophy, which was generally thought to be worth far less.
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The term securities does not generally include commodity contracts, real estate, insurance contracts, or collectibles such as works of art or rare stamps and coins.
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It is rarely of use in differentiating between common and rare stamps, and being on the back of the stamp it is not usually visible.
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Investing in rare stamps requires a high degree of expertise and can be very risky for the novice.
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It included, for example, all of the rare stamps described above that had been issued by 1917.
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There are various stamps for which we do not have records of a single cover, another reason for collecting the very rare stamps of the classic period.
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Scott was an expert on rare stamps and was often asked to evaluate rare stamps or appraise collections before sale.
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Philatelic investment was popular during the 1970s but then fell out of favour following a speculative bubble and prices of rare stamps took many years to recover.
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He claimed that he had offered the forgeries of rare stamps at about 1% of the normal market price in order to assist the simple collector to obtain these rarities.
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Many of the approximately 150,000 investors are pensioners for whom investing their savings in rare stamps appeared a more attractive option than placing them in a lower-return bank savings account.
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