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 of choice of royalty,
movie stars, sports celebrities, kings, presidents, 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 - there are many rules.
But stamp
collecting can be done in a very simple way using stamps you find
on your everyday mail and place on plain paper in a three-ring binder.
Or you can give a "want list" to a stamp dealer. He will pull the
stamps you want from his stock, and you mount them in the correct
spaces in a custom-made album that you bought.
Or you can
go to stamp shows or stamp shops or even a number of sites on the
Internet and spend hours looking through boxes of stamps and envelopes
in search of a particular stamp with a certain postal marking or
a special first-day cover that has a meaning to suit your own interests.
Stamp collecting
is a special mix of the structured and the unstructured, and you
can make it a personal hobby that will not be like anyone else's.
It's a world all its own, and anyone can find a comfortable place
in it.
Here are a
few topics you may want to review as a beginner:
Again,
welcome to Stamp Collecting!
The
more you know about it, the more you will like it -- Happy Collecting!
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