Word: jackdaw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Psychologists credit man with the instinct of acquisitiveness, and never was psychology better vindicated than by those same facts and by stamp collecting in general. Even the Jackdaw of Rheims was no more given to this acquisitiveness than the Philatelists who amassed a collection of New Zealand stamps worth, a hundred-thousand dollars. So firmly is the hobby, or the fad, rooted in human nature that a firm of stamp dealers was willing to give practically that amount for the collection in a recent sale. And a similar Swiss firm has sent its principal to this country and widely advertised...