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Selecting a stamp album
One of the most familiar components of the stamp hobby is the stamp album, a book filled with pages that have designated spaces to mount and display stamps. ...
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Postal authorities offer special mail services
A special mailing label is used to designate Express Mail service. ... services are listed with the letter prefix "E" (such as Italy's special delivery stamps ... While special delivery and Express Mail services helped to speed the mail ...
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Check watermarks to identify valuable stamps
The watermark found in postage stamp paper can make a big difference in the process of properly identifying a stamp. Some postage stamp varieties occur when ...
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A stamp by any other name may be Albanian
It starts with a seven-page introduction that defines what a postage stamp is, because many of the items collectors try to identify are actually something ...
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LINNS.COM: The website of the world's largest weekly stamp ...
At right is the Scott U.S. Pocket Stamp Catalogue. Both of these catalogs use Scott catalog numbers to identify the listed stamps. ...
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Modern stamp collecting myths debunked
The "Cowlick" variety of the 8¢ Queen Elizabeth II stamp, Canada 593. .... I think it is an advantage stamp collecting has over many other hobbies that we ...
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LINNS.COM: The website of the world's largest weekly stamp ...
Determining that value can be significant for the collector who wants to buy a stamp ... For collectors of foreign stamps, the values listed in specialized ...
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These stamps are the legends of the hobby
The Penny Black is known primarily for being the first adhesive stamp created ... a single stamp subject) of the 3sk value was inadvertently used during the ...
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Denominations figure into postal history
German postal customers must pay 110pf to mail a letter from one location in Germany to another. Canada's letter rate is the equivalent of about 31¢ in U.S. ...
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Selling your stamps? Consider all the options
Is there an active market for the stamps you want to sell? Are your stamps in excellent condition? The values you find published in catalogs are for ...
