Editing Philately (section)

===Nineteenth century===
As a collection field, philately appeared after the introduction of the postage stamps in 1840,<ref name="auto">{{cite book|last= Vladinets|first= N. I.|year = 1988|title= Great Philatelic Dictionary|publisher= Radio and communications|pages= 280|isbn= 5-256-00175-2|url=http://fmus.ru/article02/BS/bs.html|access-date = 2020-01-17|language=ru}}</ref><ref name="Ilyushin">{{cite book|last= Ilyushin|first= A.S.|year= 1988|title= Encyclopedia of Cyril and Methodius|publisher=The company "Cyril and Methodius"|location=Moscow|url=https://megabook.ru/article/%D0%A4%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%8F|access-date = 2020-01-17|language=ru}}</ref> but did not gain large attraction until the mid-1850s. In the U.S., early collectors of stamps were known as "stamp gatherers". The [[United States Post Office Department]] re-issued stamps in 1875 due to public demand for 'old stamps', including those from before the [[American Civil War]].<ref name="US Classics">''A Sharp Eye on collecting US Classics'' (Sharp Photography Publications, 2021) ASIN B091MBTGJ7 [[:File:A Sharp Eye on collecting US Classics.pdf|(read online)]]</ref> Some authors<ref name="Ilyushin"/> believe that the first philatelist appeared on the day of the release of the world's first postage stamp, dated to 6 May 1840, when the Liverson, Denby and Lavie London [[Law firm|law office]] sent a letter to [[Scotland]] [[Franking|franked]] with ten uncut [[Penny Black]]s, stamped with the [[postmark]] "LS.6MY6. 1840." In 1992 at an auction in [[Zürich]], this envelope was sold for 690,000 [[Swiss franc|francs]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Novosylov V. А.|date=2008-11-03|url=http://www.mirmarok.ru/prim/view_article/209/|title=The birth of a postage stamp|work=Acquaintance with philately:The world of philately|publisher=The world of st@mps; Union of philatelists of Russia|location=Smolensk|access-date=2020-01-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120109234936/http://mirmarok.ru/prim/view_article/209/|url-status=live|archive-date=2012-01-09}}</ref>

Already in 1846, cases of collecting stamps in large numbers were known in [[England]]. However, without reason for collection, stamps at this time were used for pasting wallpaper. The first philatelist is considered to be a postmaster going by the name Mansen, who lived in [[Paris]], and in 1855 had sold his collection, which contained almost all the postage stamps issued by that time. The stamp merchant and second-hand book dealer Edard de Laplante bought it, recognizing the definitive collector's worth of the postage stamp.<ref>[[Philatelic calendar]] for 1973. — М: Connection, 1972. — 16—22 July.</ref> Due to the boom in popularity and news of this transaction, stamp merchants like Laplante began to emerge.

Towards the end of the 19th century, stamp collecting reached hundreds of thousands of people of all classes. Some countries had collections of [[postage stamp]]s – for example, England, [[Germany]], [[France]], [[Bavaria]], and [[Bulgaria]]. In countries which held national collections, museums dedicated to the nation's history with philately were founded, and the first such appeared in Germany, France, and Bulgaria. Allegedly, the first of these museums housed the collection of the [[British Museum]], curated by MP [[Thomas Tapling]] and bequeathed to the Museum in 1891. The Museum für Kommunikation Berlin also had an extensive collection of stamps. The largest private collection of the time belonged to [[Philipp von Ferrary]] in Paris.<ref name="Ilyushin"/>

As the number of postage stamp issues increased every year, collection became progressively difficult. Therefore, from the early 1880s, "collector experts" appeared, specializing their collection to only one part of the world, a group of nations, or even only one.<ref name="Britannica">{{Cite web|title=Philately {{!}} hobby|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/philately|access-date=2020-10-06|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en}}</ref>