Issued in 1972, this 8-cent stamp was created to celebrate the hobby of philately. The design features a reproduction of the first U.S. postage stamp, the 1847 5-cent Benjamin Franklin, viewed through a magnifying glass. The strange twist in the story of this stamp is the negative reception it received from the stamp collecting community. Many collectors found the design to be uninspired and the colors garish. The "semi-jumbo" size was also a point of contention. The very audience the USPS was trying to court with this issue was largely unimpressed, making the "Stamp Collecting" stamp a curious case of a tribute that missed its mark.