Did You Know That Dracula Was A Stamp Collector?!

I didn`t know that Béla Lugosi was a stamp collector- great information!.I was many times asked about him , so I know that his family name in fact is Blaskó, but since he was born in Lugos -now Lugoj in Romania- he choosed Lugosi as a stage name.There is also a Nyirlugos (Nyir-Lugos) in Hungary, in the Nyirseg region. In Hungarian names the `i`, or `y` after a placename means `from`, so Lugosi= from Lugos. Other examples: Vasarely (in fact Vásárhelyi), Buzsáky, Hidegkuti or Sárközy. But about Sárközy`s interest in stamp collecting I`ve heard. (he has in his collection a rare Hungarian item)

I knew about Dracula being a stamp collector and vincent price, I am glad to see a hottie like Maria is a stamp collector.

FDR was such an avid collector he had a hand in designing many stamps with Postmaster Farley.
Here's a neat link with some of his sketches.

http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/deli...tion_p3.html

I believe King George V also helped design, but I could be wrong about that.

Talk about FDR being s stamp collector, it sounds like the hobby really blew up the point for their own interests back in his day, as I found this on the NPM website, I believe:

I always thought Dracula would have been the ultimate collector.

His power of hypnosis, for one, could easily be used to coax all the good material away from fellow collectors. And then of course there's the whole ageless thing - he would be the only collector to have a living memory of the entire postal system from inception to its demise.

The only problem I can see are daytime business hours at the PO - but I'm sure he could persuade his housekeeper to buy all the new issues for him!

Let's not forget Karl Malden. He was not only a collector, but a member of the Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee, and even had a post office named after him!

http://stampcollectingroundup.blogs...-office.html

Erwin Rommel

Apparently, Bruce Wayne (AKA "Batman") collects stamps, too.

Check out this episode, called "A Piece of the Action." The part with Bruce examining a stamp for the watermark starts at around 2:40.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95TNYwv4lCU

Plus he lives forever. He would have been collecting from day 1 in 1840.