Buying & Selling Stamps

The World Wide Web offers vast resources for the stamp collector. Included among these are free online stamp periodicals. Many of them are basically catalogs offered by stamp issuing agencies around the world as a way to promote their new issues. They provide up-to-date information and detailed background data on new stamps.

2009 USPS Stamp Releases - Images of the 2009 USPS Commemoratives and Definitives

USPS Stamp releases for the rest of 2008.

How to get free stamps in your neighborhood.

A great article listing a number of methods for selling collectibles. They vary from the quick and easy to ideas that are more complex but may generate better sales.

When selling online a picture may not be worth a thousand dollars, but it will enhance your chances of selling your material at the best price possible. This article provides fundamentals of taking pictures for the digital market, including hosting them.

A bit of planning ahead will add to your enjoyment of the stamp show.

Necessary tasks to prepare for selling your stamp collection include making sure you are emotionally ready to say goodbye.

Limit yourself to collecting a particular type of first day cover and learn to be a selective and frugal buyer.

The centering of a stamp is one of the prime considerations when deciding what price to pay. The knowledgeable collector is aware of the different grades of stamps and the terms to describe them.

The dream of all stamp collectors is to turn their hobby into a self-sustaining entity. More than "borrowing from Peter to pay Paul" there are practical steps the collector can take to assure that there will always be mad money in the stamp collection jar for new additions.

There are ways to help yourself find stamps at prices you can handle. And all it takes is finding a stamp dealer who is aware of your needs as a collector.

There is more to consider when buying U.S. covers than the stamp. Cachets can cause confusion for the beginning or casual collector and cause him...

Stamp collecting is based on the customer-dealer realtionship. A good dealer knows what the collector wants and tries to have it for him at a good...

The new or inexperienced collector may overlook one of the hard and fast rules of stamp collecting: always purchase a stamp in the best condition available. While there are different standards for each collector, those who want their collections to have value and decent resale value can't ignore the condition of the stamps they buy and add to...

Until recently the owner of the rare Treskilling Yellow Swedish error stamp, auctioned by David Feldman, has remained unknown. But Feldman has revealed the owner to be entrepreneur and player in the philatelic world, Arman Rousso.

You don't have to do without stamps because the rent is due, or raid the grocery money to buy the latest new issues. Learn some basic tricks of stamp buying without too much pain to your bank account and you can continue to enjoy stamp collecting just as you do when times are good.

The online world offers collectors a myriad of ways to get the message of what they want to buy to add to their collections; traditionally called a want list this information can now be broadcast across the Internet, assuring that the sought stamps are available to the collector many times faster than in stamp collecting's earlier days.

New collectors suspect dealers of all sorts of strange thoughts and deeds. There are those who think all dealers are crooks. The truth is that your stamp dealer can be a mentor and someone to help you build a better collection.

Don't fret gifts for you significant stamp collecting other. Here are tips on what stamp collectors look forward to getting over the holidays.

Black history was made and noted on both sides of the Atlantic as a noteworthy black history collection was exhibited by Stanley Gibbons, during the U.K.'s Black History Month. In the U.S. it was National Stamp Collecting month and an important Martin Luther King Jr. postal commemorative cover was produced to mark the dedication of the King...

The old days of the kindly stamp dealer are just about over. You are now on your own to buy on the Internet, without the personal guidance that was once abundantly available in stamp shops.

The USPS has decided to honor living individuals on stamps, a move that will make the stamp issuing program more contemporary and bring new blood into the aging collector world.

Make sure your collection is well-organized and neat before you go to sell.

The stamp collector must find a go-to dealer who specializes in the type of material he seeks. There are some common sense considerations one must keep in mind when sizing up stamp dealers and how they may serve the collector.

Jacques Minkus, known as The Man Who Brought Stamps to Main Street USA was the owner of one of the most successful stamp businesses in the world from the 1930s to the 1970s.

There are many variations of the first day cover, the pristine souvenir of the release day of a stamp that only travels through the mail system within another cover. The alternative are covers that have more to due with postal history than the artistic pieces of stamp memorabilia that are today's FDCs.

Buy stamps in good condition and then take care of your stamps -- and your investment.

Selling an inherited stamp collection can be an intimidating task, but there are ways to go about it that will reduce the stress and tension involved.

Learn to listen to stamp dealers to determine what stamp collecting area is right for you.

Creating a healthy stamp collection requires knowing where to find the information and the stamps that will make it grow.