Editing Commemorative stamp (section)

== Backlash ==
The appearance of commemorative postage stamps caused a backlash among some stamp collectors in the early years of stamp collecting, who balked at the prospect of laying out ever-larger sums to acquire the stamps of the world. This led to the formation of the [[Society for the Suppression of Speculative Stamps]] in 1895 to blacklist these ''excessive'' stamps. The organization broke up after unsuccessful attempts at getting collectors at large to comply with their wishes. Today early commemoratives are still prized by collectors.<ref name="Linn's"/><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/27/style/stamps.html |title=STAMPS, By Barth Healey, August 27, 1989 |newspaper=New York Times |year=2010 |access-date=1 October 2010}}</ref>