The Stamps Of India : On Steiner Pages.

Cartophily.

That's the posh word for it. We always like to dignify our childhood enthusiasms with impressive-sounding names.

Although I'm not interested in thematic stamp collecting, I rather like the interaction between my various paper-based collecting - stamos, cards, postcards etc.

Personally, I like lexicography, A Susie Dent fan,
I don't see it as posh, just a rich menu of available words to choose from.

I mean, I prefer "Wuthering heights" to "Windy Hill"

I confess to also collect my boyhood pastime of Cigarette Cards and Birds eggs. I snap up, the Cigarette cards when I see a bargain.

I also have the 1938 English and Australian Cricketers
Don Bradman of course, is missing.

As with stamps, you can build a large collection for not much money. Most 1930s cards were produced in vast quantities and are very cheap. The early cricket cards - including the Aussie Edwardian issues - require much more of an outlay.

I've cut back over the last five years, and have sold a lot. I now mainly have Imperial Tobacco issues, plus several volumes of football cards.