Suggested Keywords
for Auction Titles in
Topical Subcategory

The following list is suggested for keywords to be used in titles for offerings of topical or thematic stamps.  Since it would be very difficult to provide categories for each and every possible topic, the solution for both buyers and sellers is to rely on the search engine to find the desired items.  This will be successful if sellers use the keywords for which topical collectors can search.  In general, the titles can exclude the word(s)  in parenthesis.  This will help conserve the limited space available for titles.

For the most effective search, use the search box found at the top page of the Top:Coins & Stamps:Topical subcategory and check the box which limits the search to the Topical category.  More extensive results may be found if the search in text is also checked.  Use of the "wild card" * designator will help catch some of the misspellings and also catch variants of words.  Thus, a search for bank* would return banks, bankers, and banking.  Remember that multiple topics can be searched for in a single search by using the form (atom*,music*,hors*).

The following list is derived from the Subject Index of the American Topical Association in their listing of 1998 Topical Stamp Publications.  Lists covering each of the topics have been published in their literature.  The American Topical Association is the leading topical society in the world.  Their address is American Topical Association, P.O. Box 8, Carterville, IL 62918-0008.
 
 
Africana 
Aircraft (see Aviation) 
Americana 
Animals (see also Birds, Fish, Insects, Sealife) 
Archeology 
Architecture 
Art (& Artists) 
Astronomy 
Atomic (Energy) 
Authors (& Books) (see also Journalism, Writers) 
Autographs 
Auto(motive) (see also Transportation) 
Aviation 
Banking 
Biology (see Animals, Medicine, Plants and Science) 
Birds 
Botany (see also Flowers) 
Bridges (see Engineering) 
Butterflies (see also Insects) 
Castles (see Architecture) 
Cats (see Animals) 
Celebrities (Famous Persons) 
Ceramics 
Chemistry (see Science) 
Chess 
Children (see also Folklore) 
Christmas (see also Religion) 
Churches (see Architecture, Religion) 
Churchill 
Circus 
Clocks 
Coats of Arms (see Flags) 
Coins (& Currency) 
Columbus 
Commerce (& Trade) 
Communications 
Composers (see also Music) 
Computers 
Costumes (see also Military) 
Crowns (see Gems & Jewelry) Dances  
Death 
Demography 
Disney 
Dolls (& Puppets) 
Drugs (see also Pharmacy) 
Education 
Engineering 
Europa 		 Exploration (see also Columbus, Polar) 
Fairs (& Exhibitions) 
Fairy Tales (& Folk Tales) (see also Folklore) 
Ferris Wheels 
Firearms 
Fires (& Firefighting) 
Fish (see also Sealife) 
Flags (& National Emblems) 
Flowers (& Plants) (see also Food, Pharmacy) 
Folklore 
Food (& Drink) 
Forestry 
Gambling 
Gems (& Jewelry) 
Geography 
Graphics (& Printing) 
Group Names (as in herd, colony, swarm) 
Handicrafts 
Health (see also Medicine) 
Heraldry 
History (see also Americana) 
Horses (see Animals) 
Indians (see Americana) 
Industry 
Insects (see also Butterflies) 
Instruments (see Music) 
Int'l Organizations (see also specific subjects) 
Journalism (& Newspapers) 
Judaica 
Kennedy 
Languages 
Law (& Lawyers) 
Libraries (& Archives) 
Lighthouses 
Madonnas 
Magic 
Maps 
Masks 
Masonry 
Mathematics 
Medicine 
Meteorology (& Weather Forecasting) 
Military 
Minerals 
Money (see Coins and Currency) 
Mountains 
Music (& Musicians) 
Nobel (Prize) 		 Olympic (Games) (see Sports) 
Painters & Painting (see Arts and Artists) 
Parks 
Petroleum 
Pharmacy (& Drugs) 
Philosophers 
Photography 
Physics (see Atomic Energy, Science) 
Plants (see Flowers and Plants) 
Poetry (see Writers) 
Polar 
Police (see Law & Lawyers) 
Politics 
Postal (Service) (see also Stamp Issues) 
Printing (see Graphics & Printing) 
Radio & TV (see Communications) 
Railway 
Religion 
Rockets (see Space) 
Roosevelt 
Rotary 
Royalty 
Science 
Scipture (see Architecture, Arts & Artists) 
Sea Life (& Seashells) (see also Fish) 
Ships (see Watercraft) 
Space 
Sports 
Stamps Issues 
Stamps (On Stamps) 
Steel (& Iron Industry) 
Textiles 
Theatre (& Cinema) (see also Music) 
Time 
Traffic Safety 
Transportation (see also specific subjects) 
Trees (see Flowers and Forestry) 
Umbrellas 
United (Nations) 
US History (see also American) 
UPU (Universal Postal Union) 
Watercraft (see also Exploration) 
Waterfalls 
Women 
WWI (World War I) 
WWII (World War II) 
World's Fairs (see Fairs) 
Writers (& Books) 
Zoology (see also Animals, Birds, Fish and Insects)