6 Essential Tips to Start a Stamp Collection

[@LetsTalkStamps]

Take Your Stamp Collection to the Next Level! For a limited time, I am offering a customizable stamp label template and country label template. Grab your customized template just in time for the holidays! Visit my website for more details: letstalkstamps.com/shop/

[@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!

[@bhaskarchoumal9222]

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

[@LetsTalkStamps]

So nice of you

[@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 😂😂😊

[@georgeloveday9674]

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

[@LetsTalkStamps]

Go for it!

[@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: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iIXHq6msgaedj68 part 2: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gKaZanuIbq2BiJY

[@rogerturner1881]

@@LetsTalkStamps i follow him thanks and Graham Beck

[@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?

[@DianaMerritt-xn6mj]

I think he means one that has the mounts already in there for each stamp

[@josecanedo007]

Nice video, clear and well organized.👍

[@LetsTalkStamps]

Glad it was helpful!

[@rogerturner1881]

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

[@raulgongora2077]

Twaskyou sr for the information Blessings

[@LetsTalkStamps]

Welcome 👍

[@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.

[@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

[@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!

[@jnagarya519]

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

[@ratneswarkundu922]

Very first tip is MONEY😂

[@LetsTalkStamps]

😅

[@derejeberehanu8405]

Dere