Welcome To Stamp Collecting

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Challenge … information …
friendships … and just plain fun
are part of “the World’s Most
Popular Hobby,” stamp collecting! For more
than 150 years, stamp collecting has been
the hobby choice of royalty, movie stars,
sports celebrities, and hundreds of
thousands of other people. Why do so many
different types of people like stamps? One
reason is the hobby of stamp collecting suits
almost anybody - it’s very personal. You fit
the hobby to yourself, instead of forcing
yourself to fit rules, as with many hobbies.
There’s not much free choice about how to
play golf or softball or square dance, where
there are many rules.
special gummed paper) or with mounts (little selfadhesive
plastic envelopes manufactured in many
sizes to fit stamps and covers). Mounts keep stamps
in the condition in which you bought them. “Selfmounting”
pages with rows of plastic strips also are
available, so that you can easily slip your stamps in
and out of the album pages.
Other hobby tools include gauges, for
measuring the “perforations” (or perfs, those holes
punched along the edges of stamps), and
watermark fluid, which makes the special marks in
some stamp papers visible…