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Collecting Specialty Stamps: Here’s What You Need To Know

Stamp collecting generally, and collecting specialty stamps in particular, have grown to be very popular in the last 50 years. While some people seek out these kinds of rare and costly stamps for the sheer love of it, other people are doing this to produce a profit. When done properly, collecting specialty stamps can be quite a lucrative project. This short article examines the four basic categories of specialty stamps, and can be used as a reference for any curious philatelist.

Collecting Specialty Stamps: The Postage Stamp

This is the most obvious category, and also the most well known. The aficionados that collect specialty postage stamps are always searching for those uncommon and limited varieties. In some instances these types of stamps can in fact be found in post offices, but typically they are bought and sold by individual parties over the internet. These postage stamps might be coming from any country in the world dating back to 150 years ago.

Collecting Specialty Stamps: Postal Stationery

While not as well-known as the postage stamp, postal stationery can be another potentially lucrative category of specialty stamp. We refer to smaller bits of postal paper that features a letter sheet on it. Among the first known examples of postal stationery originated in Sardinia way back in the year 1819. These types of specialty stamps can be found, and are very common, on the net.

Collecting Specialty Stamps: Revenue Stamp

These types of stamps have been attached on government packages to certify tax revenue. A typical case in point is the federal duck stamp that is released with a diverse graphic each year. It’s a given that these types of stamps are very popular among wildlife hunters, and also function as the actual hunting license in many states. In Minnesota for example, there’s a competition yearly to decide just what artist gets to exhibit their graphic on the subsequent years duck stamp. These stamps, as they get older and rarer, grow to be quite the collector’s item.

Collecting Specialty Stamps: Souvenir Stamps

Souvenir stamps are released by the United states Postal Service created specifically to become a collector’s item, although they are valid to be used for their original purpose of indicating postage. These types of sheets resemble a jigsaw puzzle which has a significant graphic made up of several pieces. Every individual stamp is actually one of the jigsaw puzzle pieces. Such stamps become a lot more valuable if the collector is able to secure a signature of the designer or the person portrayed on the stamp.

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