The Beginners Guide To Stamp Collecting Plr Ebook

PLR Ebook Table Of Contents

Learning the Lingo
Your First Stamp Album
What Are The Different Types of Stamps?
Basic Tools a Stamp Collector Needs
Where to Get Stamps
What Are the Different Methods for Collecting Stamps?
How to Soak, Sort, Identify and Mount Stamps
How to Judge the Condition and Grading of Stamps
Should You Collect U.S. Stamps or International Stamps
What Are Rare Stamps and How to Spot Them
Who Are Some Famous Collectors?
How to Spot a Fake or Forgery
What Are Expert Certificates
What Are Special Stamps
Stamp Investing – All About the Market

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Learning the Lingo

Know the lingo of stamp collectors

Stamp collecting is a hobby that dates back to the 1840s when the first stamp known as “Penny Black” was issued by Great Britain. Prior to this year, man’s communication system was done primitively without the use of postal service. This was before society learned to appreciate the functions of a postmaster and the corresponding costs of hiring him and a staff.

British postmaster general Sir Rowland Hill came up with the concept of using a stamp that would be paid by the letter sender as early as 1837 but the long debates stretched the issuance of the first stamped letter three years after that proposal.

The first issued stamp, which had a photo of Queen Victoria, became known as Penny Black because it used black ink and it required a penny for one stamp. The United States, which caught on to the practice of sending letters with a stamp, made its first stamp in 1847 with the image of Benjamin Franklin.

Since then, philatelists or stamp collectors started their vocation. Stamp collecting may look like a simple hobby but listen to philatelists do their stamp banter and you would get lost along the way.

While the word ambulant may commonly refer to medicine or ambulances, philatelists view an ambulant as a roving post office. And do you know that stamp makers protect stamps from counterfeiting by placing a burelage or a design on top of the stamp?