My hobby

            Almost everyone has a hobby. A person who pursues a hobby is never dull or  idle. It helps to spend our leisure in a meaningful and useful manner.

            There are many different kinds of hobbies. Many take the form of collecting. Some collect coins, picture post cards and sea shells. My hobby is collecting stamps. It is also called philately. A person who collects stamps is called a philatelist. We can learn many things through this hobby. It is instructive, educational and also profitable.

           Now I have nearly nine hundred stamps, both local and foreign. I get stamps from my friends and from my pen-pals. I have three foreign pen pals. They all are stamp collectors. When I get more than one stamp of the same kind, I exchange them with others. I have two stamp albums. I have pasted all stamps in them neatly.

           Now I will tell how I became a stamp collector. About five years ago, my father took me to see a stamp exhibition. There were thousands of colorful stamps there; both local and foreign. I was so attracted by the colorful stamps that I started collecting stamps from the following day itself.

           We can learn about the culture, fauna and flora, history, discoveries, inventions and biographies of great men through stamps.

           The rare and very old stamps can be sold at very high prices. There are stamps in various shapes. Some are in square, rectangular and triangular shape. Some are large and some are small.

           In postage stamps there are errors, freaks and flaws. There stamps are considered rare. Such stamps fetch great prices.

           I also collect First Day covers. First Day covers are issued on the day a stamp is newly released. There fore first day covers are as valuable as stamps.

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