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Stamp Collecting Market : A Bourse.

 
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Consider , if you will, the "Bourse"
A name travelled down the highways of history from the middle ages,
nay, ancient Greece.
And it was from Greece we adorned some of our first postage stamps,
Ceres the Goddess of the harvest.


Bourse: Noun.
A stock exchange of continental Europe, esp Paris
From French, literally: purse,
from Medieval Latin bursa ,
ultimately from Greek: leather

"stock exchange," 1570s, burse, from O.Fr. borse "money bag, purse" from M.L. bursa "a bag" (see purse). Fr. spelling and modern sense of "exchange for merchants" is first recorded 1845, from the name of the Paris stock exchange.


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