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USA
Today
Maverick puts his stamp on industry
Dour stamp collectors like to say that philately gets you
nowhere.
Rousso, 36, burst on the USA scene in 1981 after 15 years in the stamp
business in France.
Stamp dealers call him the Ted Tuner of the $1 billion worldwide industry,
Rousso says.
For the second time since January, Rousso’s Miami Beach Fla.-based
Coach Investments Inc. introduces two “freedom” stamps.
Part of the stamps’ purchase price ($15 for a set of four) goes
to help Ethiopian hunger victims and Polish Solidarity members.
Most of Rousso’s reputation comes from his practice of bartering
stamps for goods.
Last September he opened International Stamp Exchange Corp. a computerized
stamp exchange in Miami Beach.
He acquired the computers and a safe-deposit company for storage of stamps,
valued at $1.5 million, with stamps.
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