Five Basic Ways to Store a Stamp Collection

Stamp collecting as an amusing hobby can gain monetary benefits down the roadway. Stamp collecting encompasses the representation of a limitless variety of diverse, inspiring themes. It likewise brings the appeal and history of every culture and animal on Earth directly into your grasp. When it comes to storing stamps, Stamp collectors have a number of options. Standard stamp care are always observed whatever technique is made use of to store a stamp collection.

Things we need:

• Stock pages 

• Album

• Stamp tongs

 

Steps

1. Sort the stamps into categories. Many beginning stamp collectors store their stamps by dividing into broad categories to start with. Broad categories include those stamps with come from a particular country, those which fall into a particular topic, for instance architecture or history, or those that were posted through particular service, such as airmail or express delivery.
2. Choose an album. Stock pages make a convenient storage albums for a stamp collection as the pages are double sided, lined with strips of plastic pockets down each page that hold stamps in neat rows. The stamps are easily removed and rearranged as the collection grows or categories expand.
3. Handle carefully stamps using the tongs. Stamp tongs keep dirt, grease, and perspiration from traveling from the hand to the stamp. Place them in rows in the pockets of stock pages, or arrange them in categories in album pages.
4. Don't place a mount in an album with the stamp in the mount. You need to moisten the mount, and you don't want moisture near the stamp.  Let the empty mount completely dry before you put the stamp in the mount. 
5. To keep the notes relating to the stamps, the notes relating to the stamps, either individual stamps or collections, can be included by writing on small pieces of paper and including them with the stamps on the page. Notes such as the period in history that the stamp relates to or commemorates help to draw the collection together.  

Stamp collecting need not be a costly pastime, however one area where one can not economize is the quality of stock books and albums. Care for your stamp collection, and it will repay you with a lifetime of satisfaction.