postal history

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postal history (uncountable)

  1. Items such as covers and associated material illustrating historical episodes of postal systems.
    • 1950, Proceedings [of the] annual business meeting, State Historical Society of Wisconsin - History, page 29:
      A Wisconsin Postal History Collection, comprising a master collection of covers and postmarks which display in detail the postal history of Wisconsin.
    • 1957, Lauren Robert Januz, The American Philatelist, volume 71:
      It is an outstanding series and belongs in the library of every serious stamp collector whether they collect postal history or not.