Stamp Collecting
Stamp collecting is fun, relaxing, and popular for many reasons. You can collect stamps at no cost, as they come in your mail every day and can be easily swapped with friends and relatives.
Stamp collecting is the collecting of postage stamps and related objects. It is one of the world's most popular hobbies, with estimates of the number of collectors ranging up to 20 million in the United States alone.[1]
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Stamp Collecting Resources
Joseph Luft's Stamp Collecting Page - General stamp collecting information, stamps for sale, and a wealth of links to other collector's pages. One of the most comprehensive pages on philately.
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Stamp Collecting Basics / Show Schedules
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Stamp Collecting for Kids !!
Members of the British North America Philatelic Society have developed this web-site for young people.
Stamp collecting can be just a paper chase
By Janet Klug
Even with today's modern technology, most of the world's postage stamps are still printed on paper, just as they were when they were first developed beginning in the 1830s and later.
Stamp collecting is a special mix of the structured and the unstructured, and you can make it a personal hobby that will not be like anyone else's. It's a world all its own, and anyone can find a comfortable place in it.
Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms
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P: 1: Scott Catalog number prefix for Newspaper. 2: proof. 3: auction term for Poor quality. 4: international postal code for Portugal.
Other areas of stamp collecting for you to consider are:
TOPICAL collections based on stamps from either a single country or world-wide which portray a single theme or subject. This is the most popular of all the specialized collecting areas.
Technical name for stamp collecting.
Pictorial
Stamp that features a view such as a landscape or seascape, rather than a portrait, coat of arms or other symbolic design.
Aerophilately: A specialized area of stamp collecting concentrating on stamps or covers carried by air.
Stamp Collecting Begins to Build
Starting with a few enthusiasts in the 1850s, the hobby of collecting postage stamps and related items grew steadily for three decades.
Basic Stamp Collecting
Tips and Links
"It has been said that 'Civilization' began in the East, and it must be true, as the organization of the first postal system by 'couriers' in the world is attributed to the Persian monarch, Cyrus the Great.
Stamp collecting is still among one of this country's most popular hobbies, even as more correspondence is accomplished electronically.
Stamp Collecting : Introduction to Stamp Collecting
Introduction to Stamp Collecting ...
STAMP COLLECTING, AS A HOBBY, provides peace of mind, visual education, fraternity, and a means of revenue.
Stamp collecting or Philately, like every other field ,too contains some technical and domain specific terms (even the name is so difficult.) Some of these terms are specific to Pakistani currency. So some are given below.
In stamp collecting or philately, there are many terms used to describe stamps and other things associated with stamps collecting. You may come across these terms in catalogues, periodicals ect. Here is a glossary of terms used in stamp collecting.
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Let's leave stamp collecting as a hobby. As a stamp collector for many years, I can honestly say I have learned more geography and history than I ever learned in school from my stamps.
The ABC's of Stamp Collecting, A PUBLICATION OF YOUTH PHILATELY NETHERLANDS - DUTCH PHILATELIC YOUTH ASSOCIATION, in its English version, has been published on the www by filatelia.net.
Among our essential stamp collecting supplies, we have a large stock of protective envelopes and plastic sleeves to safeguard your most valuable specimens.
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Accessories - Full range of stamp collecting tools and aids, e.g. tweezers, hinge mounts, perforation gauges, catalogues, stock books, catalogues and books etc..
Although many equate it with stamp collecting, it is a distinct activity. For instance, philatelists will study extremely rare stamps without expecting to own copies of them, whether because of cost, or because the sole survivors are in museums.
Probably no other field of stamp collecting is so well documented; government records show what Bureau Prints have been made and how many copies of each. Complete catalogs are issued frequently, and specially printed albums are available.
In stamp collecting, perforation measurements rely on how many perforation holes are contained in a 2-centimeter area. Thus a stamp that gauges 10.5, for example, would have 10-1/2 perforation holes in a 2-centimeter length.
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Arpin Philately offers a great deal of philatelic services: stamps on approval, stamp collecting supplies, online secure store, purchase of stamp collections, and much more.
Some people save stamps from one country like the USA or France or even Canada.
Other people save stamps that have Horses on them or buildings or cars. The great thing
about stamp collecting is YOU! ...
 See also: Stamp, Used, Cover, Catalog, Philatelic
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