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By John Finch, About.com Guide

Keeping Your Stamp Collection Up to Date Created: Monday, May 14, 2012 Updated: Monday, May 14, 2012
Creating a healthy stamp collection requires knowing where to find the information and the stamps that will make it grow.
Stamp Collectors Living in Interesting Times Created: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 Updated: Monday, May 14, 2012
Collectors can claim stamps as their own by understanding their use and importance and creating a collection demonstrating postal progress.
Stanley Gibbons Collect British Stamps 2012 Created: Sunday, April 29, 2012 Updated: Sunday, April 29, 2012
A review of the stamp catalog Collect British Stamps 2012, published by Stanley Gibbons, Ltd.
Catalogs and Your Stamp Collection's Value Created: Saturday, April 28, 2012 Updated: Saturday, April 28, 2012
Stamp catalogs come offer guides to prices, not the final word on them. That rests with stamps dealers, who use the same catalogs as collectors to determine their prices.
Crash Cover Created: Friday, April 27, 2012 Updated: Friday, April 27, 2012
A definition of the term Crash Cover.
The Stamp Show Dealer: First Contact Created: Friday, April 27, 2012 Updated: Friday, April 27, 2012
Learn to listen to stamp dealers to determine what stamp collecting area is right for you.
Commemorative Stamp or Propaganda Label? Created: Friday, April 27, 2012 Updated: Friday, April 27, 2012
Some stamps from the past seem to be more about advertising than commemorating events.
Stamp Words, Serious and Otherwise Created: Friday, April 27, 2012 Updated: Friday, April 27, 2012
Monsieur Herpin coined the word philately more than 100 years ago so stamp collecting might have a fancy title for itself. There are other words unique to the hobby not so elegant. In fact, they ca...
Air Mail -- an illustrated history 1793 - 1981 Created: Friday, April 27, 2012 Updated: Friday, April 27, 2012
A book covering the history of air mail and the collection of it, known as aerophiltately.
Improving the World with Stamps Created: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 Updated: Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Stamps can contribute to the welfare and well-being of many living things.
Selling an Inherited Stamp Collection Created: Saturday, March 31, 2012 Updated: Saturday, March 31, 2012
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.
Collateral Items Add Interest to a Stamp Collection Created: Saturday, March 31, 2012 Updated: Saturday, March 31, 2012
Adding stamp related philatelic items to your collection, can also add interest to it and help your stamps tell their stories.
When Stamp Collectors are Ready, Covers are Waiting Created: Saturday, March 31, 2012 Updated: Saturday, March 31, 2012
On the way from collecting stamps to studying postal history, there's an entry level fun way to get into it by collecting covers that show the progress of the mails and the history of the hobby of ..
Max Kronstein Lived Nearly a Century of Philatelic Flight Created: Friday, March 30, 2012 Updated: Friday, March 30, 2012
Max Kronstein became an authority on philatelic flight from balloons and zeppelins to the Space Shuttle in a life that spanned nearly a century.
Today Stamp Condition is More Important than Ever When Buying Created: Friday, March 30, 2012 Updated: Friday, March 30, 2012
Buy stamps in good condition and then take care of your stamps -- and your investment.
Community Created: Monday, October 11, 2010 Updated: Saturday, March 24, 2012
Meeting other stamp collectors for a friendly networking and exchange of information benefits you and your collection. Even with the Internet, the individual's grasp can only reach so far. As part ..
Buying Stamps in Economically Tough Times Created: Sunday, May 29, 2011 Updated: Saturday, March 24, 2012
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 accou..
Buying & Selling Created: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 Updated: Saturday, March 24, 2012
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 price. There are many factors besides catalog pric..
Basics Created: Monday, September 27, 2010 Updated: Saturday, March 24, 2012
Here you will find the information to start a stamp collection on the right foot and continue it knowledgeably, getting the most pleasure possible out of your hobby, with the potential to realize a..
Styles of First Day Cover Collecting Created: Monday, July 19, 2010 Updated: Saturday, March 24, 2012
Limit yourself to collecting a particular type of first day cover and learn to be a selective and frugal buyer.
Stamp Collecting at the Tipping Point Created: Monday, March 19, 2012 Updated: Monday, March 19, 2012
The ongoing problem with the hobby of stamp collecting is the inability to attract younger collectors to carry on the traditions and start some of their own.
The Exotic Hobby of Stamp Collecting Created: Monday, March 19, 2012 Updated: Monday, March 19, 2012
Visit the exotic locales of the world without even leaving your comfy chair. All you need as a traveling companion is a worldwide stamp collection.
Commemorative Stamps Created: Monday, March 19, 2012 Updated: Monday, March 19, 2012
A description of the properties and uses of United States commemorative stamps.
The Buffalo Balloon Stamp Created: Thursday, April 29, 2010 Updated: Friday, March 02, 2012
A nearly unique airmail stamp was issued years before powered flight. It's purpose to frank mail carried on Samuel Archer King's balloon
The Alternative First Day Cover Created: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 Updated: Wednesday, February 29, 2012
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..
Overprinted Stamps Reflect History's March Created: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 Updated: Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Overprints are put on stamps for a number of reasons, from changing denomination, to making money for charity
Where to Find A $14,000 Error Stamp Rarity Created: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 Updated: Wednesday, February 29, 2012
A recently discovered error version of the U.S.'s Lindbergh airmail stamp has sold for $14,000.
Is It Time to Rejoin the Ranks of the Stamp Collectors? Created: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 Updated: Wednesday, February 29, 2012
If you collected years ago and have been on sabbatical from the hobby, there have been some changes you should know about before you dive back in.
Always Know What Your Stamp Collection is Worth Created: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 Updated: Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Know what your stamp collection is worth by consulting catalogs, but also be aware of the things that can impact a stamp's value.
Stamp Collecting and Philately: Strange Bedfellows Created: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 Updated: Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Technology has threatened the profitability of the mail system since the telegraph. Now the Internet and other technological advances are causing stamp collectors to wonder if stamps will be around..
Main Street's Stamp Dealer Created: Sunday, February 26, 2012 Updated: Sunday, February 26, 2012
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.
Stamps' Sweet Charity Created: Monday, May 17, 2010 Updated: Monday, February 20, 2012
Stamps have always been a dependable means of raising funds for those in need or suffering. It started during the U.S.'s Civil War and is still going on today.

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