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To most people, stamp collecting is merely a hobby. Something that would keep the mind off from everyday stresses. But how do stamps differ? How are they produced? How can one differ from another? These are questions that an inexperienced collector couldn’t answer. They have the philatelists to thank for.
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Hinge sticking is the essential craft of all stamp collectors. Stamp hinges are the cheapest, easiest and most popular method to hold stamps in place on album pages. Typically stamp hinges are thin, transparent slips of paper coated on one side with a thin film of shiny gum and smaller than most definitive issues.
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To the Gold Coast goes the honour of being the first British Colony to begin a definitive set for Queen Elizabeth. The first stamp was the 2 1/2d., featuring a trooper of the Mounted Constabulary, with a new medallion of the Queen which appeared on December 19th, 1952, a little over ten months after the Accession. The printers Messrs Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co., were probably helped in this achievement by the decision to use the same designs as in the previous King George VI set but nevertheless new dies and plates had to be made.
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A set of stamps released by Austria in 2005 is still causing arguments, and is alleged to be culminating in an international court case. Details are scarce as no official comments have been made by either side.
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Carry On star Barbara Windsor has joined soldiers from the Household Cavalry to launch Royal Mail stamps marking 50 years of the saucy comedies. The stamps - to be released on Tuesday - look forward to the half century birthday of the Carry On series and also the first Dracula movie by Hammer Films.
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The worlds most expensive stamp collection ever sold, amazingly had only 183 items, of all different philatelic types. It consists of classic Mauritian stamps with just four stamps making up 75% of it complete value!
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The world's most expensive stamp has been purchased by a collector in a sensational "swap", which has baffled many collectors around the world.
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