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Bourse - a meeting of dealers or of collectors where stamps change hands either by cash or trade; a stamp show will typically have a stamp exhibition and a stamp bourse.
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Bourse: Meeting of stamp collectors, dealers where philatelic material are sold or exchanged.
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Cachet: A seal usually used in First Day Covers.

Bourse: A meeting of stamp collectors and/or dealers, where stamps and covers are sold or exchanged.

Bourse (rhymes with course) is a word you will see in stamp-event calendars and ads, such as those shown in Figure 1. The French word dating from the 16th century derives from medieval Latin for purse.

Bourse A marketplace, such as a stamp exhibition, where stamps are bought, sold or exchanged.

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The Paris stock exchange. This term has come to be synonymous with coin show.
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The dealer bourse includes the United States Postal Service, United Nations and Nordica postal administrations, as well as dealer booths where all covers will be priced at $1 or less and all stamps at 10¢ or under. In addition, Regency-Superior.

Börse: (Ger.) bourse; such as a stamp show, where stamps are bought, sold or exchanged.
Boscawen: New Hampshire, Postmaster's issue, 1846.
Bosna: (Czech.) Bosnia.
Bosna-Hercegovina: (Czech.) Bosnia-Herzegovina.

In regards to buying stamps, Klug presents the whole range of options, from traditional stamp shows and bourses to the internet. Forgeries, fakes and the sometimes complex art of grading stamps are explained clearly.

Many dealers sell stamps through the Internet while others have neighborhood shops which are one of the best resources for beginning and intermediate collectors. Some dealers also jointly set up week-end stamp markets called "bourses" that move ...

and other items with a mark up rate which they call a premium. Regularly, stamp dealers issue catalogues featuring their stamps for sale. Stamp collectors can buy these stamps directly, or bid on them during stamp auction online or on the bourse.

Others set up weekly stamp markets often known as "bourses" that move around a fixed geographical region from week to week.

Bourse - A gathering of a group of dealers and collectors at which stamps, first day covers, and supplies are bought, traded, and/or sold.

See also: Philatelic, Stamp, Cover, Local, Internat

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