6 Essential Tips to Start a Stamp Collection

If you are a beginner and ready to dive right into the awesome hobby of stamp collecting, stay tuned for the entire video while I share six essential tips to start a stamp collection.
6 Tips to Start a Stamp Collection:
🟦Money
🟦Storing and organizing stamps
🟦Handling stamps
🟦Stamp Catalogues
🟦Viewing stamps
🟦Time and Patience
►Why NOW is the BEST Time to Start a Stamp Collection: • Why NOW is the BEST Ti...
►How to Mount Stamps: • Stamp collecting for b...
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• How to Mount Stamps
STORING STAMPS
►Lighthouse Hardcover Stamp Album Stockbook With 64 Black Pages, Red, LS4/32: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...
►Stamp Album Stockbook by Lighthouse 32-Black Page Stamp Stock book LS2/16 Black (Size: 6 1/2"x 9"): www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...
►Stamp Pages for Stamp Album Binder, 10 Sheet (20 Page) 5 Rows Pages for Stamp Collectors, Professional Pack (5 Rows): www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08...
TWEEZERS
►BeeSpring Stamp Tweezers - 4.7 inch Curved Stamp Tongs. Extra Thin Edges, Perfect for Stamp Collecting, Collection Book and Collectors Album: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...
MAGNIFYING GLASS
►BASUNE 10X Handheld Magnifier, Reading Magnifier Loupe Glasses 10X with Rosewood Handle for Book and Newspaper Reading, Insect and Hobby Observation, Classroom Science (Clear, Plastic Frame): www.amazon.com/Magnifier-Magn...
FURTHER READING:
►Condition a key component of stamp value: www.linns.com/insights/stamp-...
►Mint Condition - Overview: www.stamp-collecting-world.co...
►Basic collecting terms: what you don't know can hurt you: www.linns.com/news/postal-upd...
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[@Robertbrown08049]

Three additional tips: 1) If you are collecting used stamps or mint hinged and want to put them in an album, the best place to buy an album are flea markets. Granted the album may be 20 years old but those stamps are reasonably priced and you can still put newer stamps on individual pages. I bought my US Plate Block album for $1.00 at a flea market. 2) Catalogues are very expensive, many public libraries (like mine) carry a full set of Scott catalogues, 3) Brick and mortar stamp stores are hard to find. I buy most of my stamps at stamp shows. Fortunately there are two monthly ones in my area. Prices are usually very good and you get your stamps immediately.

[@LetsTalkStamps]

Great and important tips to add. Thank you very much for sharing.

[@abijahdixon2771]

Great idea, libraries have some awesome stuff! Shipping takes forever and few types of businesses deal with collecting where I live, mostly stuff like video games, cards, cars, but not coins or stamps or dollhouses😢

[@bo-rale584]

There are a couple of important things that collectors need that I didn't hear mentioned, especially if you buy large packets to start your collection. 1) A Watermark Detector - some of the easiest stamps to get are the QEII Wilding issues and German stamps from between the two world wars. You can have what appears to be dozens of the same stamps but different watermarks mean you have different stamps 2) A UV Light - The United States, Canada, and Great Britain issued a lot of stamps beginning in the late 50s where they 'glow' under a UV light. I think these two items are just as important as the magnifying glass and stamp tongs. After all, before you 'store' your stamps, the fun part is identifying them

[@LetsTalkStamps]

Great additions!

[@Safyris]

Do you have any recommendations on a Watermark Detector (mainly Canadian stamps)? I recently bought a stamp collection where the guy claimed it was all "New and never posted but "got wet"". All the backs have lost their gum which makes me think they've been posted before. Besides the missing gum, the fronts of the stamps have no markings and when I use my 385 Wavelength UV light, only the sides/areas that are supposed to glow, indeed glow. I'm thinking of selling the duplicate stamps I got, but am unsure what to list/market them as. (i.e. used vs new, etc). I also have separate stamp books for my "new" stamps and "used" stamps so am unsure where to put these ones. Any advice/expertise greatly appreciated :)

[@claire2470]

THANKS FOR YOUR TIPS!🤗
(I'm continuing my hobby of collecting stamps. . .started in my highschool and now i'm in my 40s)

[@LetsTalkStamps]

That is awesome!

[@00Honorus00]

A very good thing for beginners could be a pre prepared albun from lighthouse.. 1. it gives you a help to collect and show differences. But they are expensive.

[@georgeloveday9674]

What is a pre prepared album?

[@rogerturner1881]

there is an more important thing to start collecting. 2/ deciding what to collect- country or topics/MNH or used. I collect GREECE, NEW ZEALAND, ENGLAND, CYPRUS, COOK ISLANDS. I started by collecting used stamps and then slowly collecting mint. i did the mistake in stamp hinges, not knowing that they disvalue by at least 1/2 the value esp on the mint stamps. i started 50 years [1972] ago.

[@LetsTalkStamps]

Thank you for your comments. I suggest checking out Ted Talks Stamps two part video on this topic:
part 1: czcams.com/video/RTdzvvLBjYM/video.html
part 2: czcams.com/video/Ju69HR9HNR4/video.html

[@rogerturner1881]

@@LetsTalkStamps i follow him thanks and Graham Beck

[@abijahdixon2771]

Thanks! I'm on a budget so I'll get the small storage book lol! I had more in the past but I am inpatient 😂😂😊

[@bhaskarchoumal9222]

You have covered all the relevant tips good for beginners. Thanks for the valuable video.

[@LetsTalkStamps]

So nice of you

[@rogerturner1881]

can you tell us to making stamp album pages using an app like ALBUM EASY, ALBUM GEN etc.

[@josecanedo007]

Nice video, clear and well organized.👍

[@LetsTalkStamps]

Glad it was helpful!

[@raulgongora2077]

Twaskyou sr for the information
Blessings

[@LetsTalkStamps]

Welcome 👍

[@georgeloveday9674]

I want to start collecting. I really enjoyed your presentation. I want to learn more.

[@LetsTalkStamps]

Go for it!

[@christophersmeltser6564]

I’m glad I found your channel. I subscribed. Love those albums! Can you recommend a couple of the best places online to buy used bulk U.S stamps at a great price?

[@LetsTalkStamps]

Thank you for subscribing! I am launching a website very soon that will include some helpful resources so stay tuned!! Meanwhile, Mystic Stamp Company is one of the best for U.S. stamps: www.mysticstamp.com/Listing/United-States/

[@christophersmeltser6564]

@@LetsTalkStamps thank you

[@hs-zd4ch]

What are your thoughts on putting stamps in a moleskine journal? Thanks

[@LetsTalkStamps]

I personally have never used one so unfortunately I don't have much to share. I store stamps in a Lighthouse Hardcover Stockbook as well as MUDOR Stamp Pages for Stamp Album Binder.

[@user-fm9oe6yk7g]

The most useful tool in my collection is my watermark detector. Also, as I get older, my magnifying glass has become a zoom microscope because my eyes have been aging with me.

[@LetsTalkStamps]

Great tip!

[@martinceva319]

How can I know if a set of stamps it’s worth that money or not? I saw on Facebook someone that sells 200 stamps for an amount of money and I don’t know if it’s okay or if he’s asking to much

[@LetsTalkStamps]

Hi Martin, do you know the quality of the stamps and if they are mint or used? That will help determine the cost.

[@martinceva319]

@@LetsTalkStamps some mint, some used it’s a mix of them hahah

[@ratneswarkundu922]

Very first tip is MONEY😂

[@LetsTalkStamps]

😅

[@jnagarya519]

"Tweezers" are for eyebrows (and Europeans). "Tongs" are for stamps.

[@derejeberehanu8405]

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