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The Malcolm MacGregor Collection of Autographed Stamps:
In the summer of 1948, stamp collector Malcolm MacGregor began sending stamps of the world to the individuals pictured on them, with a request for their autograph. MacGregor's quest for personally signed stamps became a lifelong passion. he eventually obtained more than a thousand of them, and bequeathed his collection to the Smithsonian.
Some of the autographed stamps are mounted with the envelopes in which they were returned, revealing the numerous ways MacGregor reached his subjects: through friends, consulates and embassies, private secretaries, and other intermediaries. In the post-World War II era, he captured the autographs of former royalty living in exile and leaders of emerging nations, such as Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana and Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India. |