Buying stamps from online auctions? Here are some definitions of terms used by sellers Main Abbreviations used by online stamp sellers: MNH = “Mint Never Hinged” with original gum without any gum disturbance MLH = “Mint Lightly Hinged” with original gum that shows slight marks from previous hinging or a small unobtrusive hinge remnant M […]
List of world stamp catalogues AFA specialkatalog: Danmark, Færøerne, Grønland, Dansk Vestindien og Slesvig (Denmark) Afinsa (Portugal) Anfils (Spain) Australasian stamp catalogue (Australia) Austria Netto Katalog (ANK) (Austria) BALE (Israel) Barefoot Catalogue (Revenues) Bolaffi (Italy) Borek (World catalogue) Brusden-White (Australia) Burak Pul Evi Kataloğu – Spesyalize Türk Pullari Kataloğu (Specialised Postage Stamp Catalog of Turkey) […]
Learning History and Geography From Your Stamp Collection Besides stamps being a thing of art and beauty, there’s other educational benefits to being a stamp collector. As a bonus is you can learn from the hobby of philately a lot about geography and even more history. Your nature study and natural history are broadened and […]
How to get the greatest beauty from your stamp collection How to get the most benefit and satisfaction from your stamp collection. Again, the perforations are often important. Those are the little bits that stick out all round the edge, where the stamp has been torn away from its neighbours on the sheet. You can […]
How to specialise in stamp collecting After a time you may realise that to attempt to collect stamps of all the world is all very well, but that there are so many hundreds of thousands of them that a lifetime or a fortune to spend will not be enough. So you begin to specialise. Many […]
How to look after your stamp collection Putting the interesting historical side of stamp collecting aside and here’s how to take care of your collection for yourself. First you should buy a quality neat album. A small one will suffice at the beginning if you’re new to stamp collecting, and nowadays good stamp albums can […]
Famous People Who Collect Stamps The greatest collector in the world is probably The Queen, having inherited a vast stamp collection from her father the late King George V. His collection was of immense value, and when his children were young they knew that on a certain afternoon of each week they must not disturb […]
Rare Stamps Which Have Been Sold One of the most valuable collection of recent years was a collection that took the auctioneer two years to get through it, and philatelists from all over the world fought to obtain some of the more valuable stamps. The collection belonged to Arthur Hind, and in all it sold […]