1. Buy and Exchange Postage Stamps
For stamp collectors, stamp collecting can be more exciting if you know where and how to get your collections. Whenever you collect a stamp, always remember that, someday, it will become rare and will worth a lot of money. So handle your collecte...
2. Begin Stamp Collecting
Although the advent of the Internet, electronic mails (e-mails), cellphones, and instant messaging services (IMS) ignited the four corners of the world to develop into one huge wireless global village. The high technological communication advance...
3. Beware of Fake Stamps
Postage stamps are one of the most collected items in the world. However, they are also considered as the most faked, regummed and counterfeited items.
4. Buying Stamps
Are you new to the world of stamp collecting? Stamp collecting is a treasured hobby that people around the world have enjoyed for centuries. If you’re just starting out, there are some things you should know before spending your hard-earned money o...
5. Birth of stamp collecting
With the birth of stamps came the birth of stamp collectors or philatelists as they have become known. Shortly after adhesive postage stamps were introduced by Great Britain in 1840, people began collecting them. In 1841, a women even placed an a...
6. Buying Coins
There are various sources where those “special coins” can be purchased. The following are the basic methods and starting places to obtain the coin(s) you have long wanted.
7. Brazil Bullseye Stamps
Brazil's Bullseyes (so-named because they resemble the animal's eyes) have the distinction of being the second set of adhesive postage stamps introduced by any country. Issued August 1, 1843, they were second only to Great Britain's Penny Black and...
8. Burma Stamps Destroyed
Unconfirmed reports are circulating within the news agencies, that a new issue of Burmese stamps has been completely destroyed in the recent cyclones which have devastated so much of the country.
9. Buying Stamps For Investment
Investment in postage stamps should not really be called collecting since the real meaning of the word collecting is to obtain as many of a thing as you possibly can, and investment buying of stamps is something entirely different. Actually, inv...
10. Buying Bullion Coins
What are bullion coins? These coins may have high values because they are not only limited; but also they may have been found in shipwrecks, or they may come from the ancient times. Bullion coins are the type of collector’s items that many people l...
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