Stamps

Collecting Stamps has been a hobby of my Grandads for as long as I can remember. When I was younger I thought this hobby was a bit boring and almost took the mickey out of people that would do this as I could not see what was so interesting about it. When I was about 15, my Grandad gave me, my sister and my three cousins a load of stamps to keep for ourselves. I'm not quite sure what they did with theirs, but I went out and brought a book to keep them all in. I had great fun sorting out which stamps were from which countries, and arranging them all in the book I had brought. It made me feel quite embarassed about what I had previously said about the hobby. ...  Read the complete review

Stamps are one of the top ten hobbies and i havebeen collecting since i was 6 i am now 13, I love them, some can be quite valuble, others not that much, but over all they are greta they give youa nice grasp of countries and all other kinds of geological aspects, they can be very interesting to look at. At time you can be very interested in them and they can take up a lot of your time and effort but it is well worth it and you can finf out things you never would have known. Stamp collecting used to be very popular and you can be intrigued at there colour and designes. A few years aog stamps used to be popular but they are not as much now. ...  Read the complete review

I am a member of CCCC (Cover Collectors Circuit Club) since 1995. For those who do not know about this club, basically we send a nice cover to the next member on the circuit (there are 4 names on the circuit before it arrives at the originator). And each member gets rated for the quality of the cover. I cannot believe my eyes today, when I recieved a cover from IRAQ. At first glance, the cover looked excellent, with a complete set of 5 stamps issued in July 2000. But when I took another look at the stamps, I thought to myself, it doesn't look like REAL STAMPS. To me stamps normally have perforations (I know these days you can get sticker stamps without ...  Read the complete review

This Op won't be about how to collect stamps, and I won't try to give you advice. To me stamp collecting is like sexuality, everything is ok, as long as it serves your personal needs and doesn't harm anyone else. Lots of people have different goals and pleasures from their hobby, and I like just having a hobby. I never thought about collecting stamps, or coins or expired telephone cards because I always believed it was a wimpy activity. I did not know how fun and educating that collecting stamps could be. It fosters an appreciation for the whole wide world, and just a small scrap of paper can be a passport to the excitement of another culture. I ...  Read the complete review

My dad for as long as I can remember has always collected stamps. He has a collection from all over the world. He was a ham-radio operator and always had people he talked to send him stamps. He spent hours peeling them off the envelopes and putting them with special tape in looseleaf binders. He labeled what countries they came from. He must have like 25 or so of these albums. Stamps are his most prized possession, far more value than anything. He has even left his collection in his will to his kids, thats how important they are to him. He has countries from all over, all the United states, US Mints, first day of issue..to a stamp collector the value is high. ...  Read the complete review