The word deltiologist, derived from the Greek 'deltos' meaning writing-tablet, refers to a collector of what?
Deltiology Deltiology Deltiology (from Greek , "deltion", diminutive of , "deltos", "writing tablet, letter"; and , "-logia") is the study and collection of postcards. Professor Randall Rhoades of Ashland, Ohio, coined a word in 1945 that became the accepted description of the study of picture postcards. It initially took about 20 years for the name to appear in a dictionary. Compared to philately, the identification of a postcard's place and time of production can often be an impossible task because postcards, unlike stamps, are produced in a decentralised, unregulated manner. For this reason, some collectors choose to limit their acquisitions to
Wax tablet found two wax tablets made of ivory in a grave believed to belong to a money lender from the 2nd century CE. The Greeks probably started using the folding pair of wax tablets, along with the leather scroll in the mid-8th century BCE. Liddell & Scott, 1925 edition gives the etymology of the word for the writing-tablet, "deltos" (δέλτος), from the letter delta (Δ) based on ancient Greek and Roman authors and scripts, due to the shape of tablets to account for it. An alternative theory holds that it has retained its Semitic designation, "daltu", which originally signified "door" but