The Road To Stamp Collecting

    Well i could tell you this that you could buy the most expensive stamps, but there is no worth and no fun in it. Start out by buying some cheap stamps that you think are good and start from there. You dont need the most expensive of everything to be called a stamp collector. being humble is a good thing. having thousands of stamps and not enjoying them, it has no use, they just lying there taking up space. buy something you would enjoy to look at.

      You could start collecting stamps by waiting for the mail to come in and to pell of the used stamp. Then after a while, when you collected about 100 stamps then move on to buying new stamps at local post offices. After your collection increases begin to buy stamps that are more rear, that are not produced anymore. You could start ordering a magazine/catalogue like Scott catalog, Kenmore stamps or from MysticStamp.com .

      Did you know that first stamp was created by James Chalmers in Great Britain, and it was called the penny black. The penny black costs about US $200 (used), and about US $3,000 (new) . At the time the penny black was $3 (£1.50), and on the stamp was pictured Queen Victoria.

      To collect every stamp in the world would take years on end. Philipp von Ferrary was man who almost collected all the stamps of his time. He was Duke of Galliera in Genoa. He was collecting from his youth, he dedicated himself to purchase rare stamps. He had several hundred albums. He gave his collection to Postmuseum in Berlin. At the time there was world war 1. So after the war the french government confiscated his collection and sold it in auction for almost 25 million francs.

      There are many different kinds of collection areas like:

• Revenue stamps: Is a type of adhesive label used to collect taxes or fees on various items. While revenue stamps resemble postage stamps, they are not found on mail.

• Postage stamp: Is evidence of pre-paying a fee for postal services. the postage stamp signifies that the person sending the letter or package may have either fully, or perhaps partly, pre-paid for delivery.

• Souvenir Sheet or Miniature sheet: Is a small group of postage stamps still attached in the sheet where they were printed.

• First Day Cover:  Is the day on which a postage stamp, postal card or stamped envelope is put on sale, within the country or territory of the stamp-issuing authority.

• Postmarks or Postal Markings: Is a postal marking made on a letter, package, postcard or the like indicating the (more or less precise) date and time that the item was delivered into the care of the postal service.

• Federal Duck Stamp: Is a United States program to generate revenue to protect wetlands. In 1934, the Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act, popularly known as the "Duck Stamp Act," was passed by Congress. The Act requires the purchase of a stamp by waterfowl hunters.

      There are many ways of collecting, you can always begin because it doesnt matter how old you are. You could be as young as 5 or as old as 90 you're never to old to try.