Paper Chase - The Amenities of Stamp Collecting Alvin F. Harlow, 1940 "Philately continued to grow, despite the bloody conflict which was tearing at the heart of the nation, and in 1864 the first American philatelic periodical of which I have found record, the Stamp Collector's Review, began to be published at Albany, N. Y., and, incidentally, was fathered by S. Allan Taylor, who became one of the most notorious of dealers in counterfeit stamps. It continued for twelve years." You can buy Paper Chase, Alvin Harlow @ Amazon.com Another excerpt.