Speculative issue: A stamp issued solely for collective purposes.
Stamp: An officially issued label used in payment of postage.
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Stock book: A specially book having thin strips of plastic used to hold stamps.
Speculative Issue: A stamp or issue released primarily for sale to collectors, rather than to meet any legitimate postal need.
Stamp: A postal adhesive. Initially used as a verb, meaning to imprint or impress, that is, to stamp a design.
Speculative Issue - Stamp issues released for sale to collectors.
Stamp - An official postage label which signifies that the mail delivery fee has been paid.
Society for Suppression of Speculative Stamps (SSSS): group of collectors and dealers founded in 1895 in London, England, to provide an organized voice against too many stamp issues; ...
Philatelic investment was popular during the 1970s but then fell out of favour following a speculative bubble and prices of rare stamps took many years to recover.
Another term for these speculative stamps is "wallpaper." The meaning is obvious: they are thought to be good only for decoration.
The value of stamp errors is speculative. The condition of error stamps affects the stamp value.
Not wanting to make the effort to do a bit of research to find the real philatelic investment material, he'd rather let the hype and bombast of the media, or those with an agenda, compel him to invest in questionable and highly speculative items ...
 See also: Stamp, Used, Philatelic, Internat, Condition
  
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