What is it like to collect stamps?

I am 68 years old, and my philatelic history has to start from elementary school. At that time, the school teachers encouraged the students to participate in extracurricular interest study groups, so that they knew that through stamp collecting, they could learn about the world and enrich their knowledge. At first, I just collected letter sales stamps from my family or classmates, and there were both Chinese and foreign stamps.

There were more stamps, so I bought a small philatelic book, and inserted the stamps into different categories, which was my first stamp book, and I remember that my classmates were very envious. Later, when I joined the work, the income was not high, so I bought some cancelled tickets, such as butterflies, Yellow Mountain, chrysanthemums, goldfish and other large sets of tickets, which were very beautiful and became the treasure of my town hall. It's still late to collect souvenir sheets, so I bought the West Chamber first, and the Dream of Red Mansions souvenir sheets.

In 86, he returned to Beijing and began to set the yearbook, until now. Speaking of which, it is still the previous collection of a single set of deep impressions and feelings. Now, with the yearbook in hand, I don't think it's interesting.

I am also a philatelic enthusiast, every year to set the annual stamps, when the new stamp is issued, go to the post office to line up to send the first day cover, I think a lot of stamps are very beautiful, interesting, to have a copy of your own, there are a lot of interesting and beautiful stamp album is a great thing.

My dad was born in 1972 and he started collecting stamps in junior high school. This can be regarded as a hobby, imagine how ceremonial it is to buy an item at a fixed time every month or year, or how difficult it is for a person to stick to it in his life. Of course, stamp collection also has a certain amount of room for growth.

Through a period of accumulation, playing with your own collection in your spare time, it is not a kind of relaxation, to get the pleasure of the mood, not to mention that it costs money to do other entertainment, so I think about it, philately is still good, haha.

Nowadays, many hobbies include dancing, painting, cos, photography, tattoos, and so on. It's just that most people don't exchange letters anymore, and there is less access to stamps, which is the most meaningful mobile phone way.

Nowadays, the practical value of stamps is almost equal to zero, young people may not know what stamps are, and it is a great thing to have a book of their own, with many interesting and beautiful stamps.

The meaning of philately can be regarded as an investment, as an extension of other interests, as a leisure activity, depending on how you play.

There is a lot of knowledge in the world, and we will not start with the encyclopedia alphabet. But once you own an item related to a piece of knowledge, you may have a reason to know about it. For example, a celebrity, a building, a flower.

Collecting is a fun thing in itself, and people like to put all kinds of things together to enjoy. In addition, I personally feel that the benefit of it is to broaden the horizon.

It's a kind of hobby, now the practical value of stamps is almost equal to zero, and young people may not know what stamps are. However, philately, as a hobby of collecting, still has a certain mass base.

A love for philately comes from the heart, and it can increase knowledge, and preferably add value to ......

There are a lot of stamps that I don't know where to sell them now.

Small stamps increase knowledge, art appreciation, reminiscence of history, and the value is very slow!

Since middle school, I have known that stamps can also be collected, and I have seen a ** tell us that the mountains and rivers of the motherland, ** chronicle.

Later bookings, the current stamps are not of much interest.

Do it as long as you like.

1.Don't rush to buy stamps, for stamp collectors, especially beginners, it is not a good thing to buy a lot of stamps at once, the fun of stamp collecting is to collect one by one, and study the knowledge behind each stamp.

3.Prepare some essential tools, such as philatelic albums, stamp catalogues, magnifying glasses, tweezers, measuring scales, mail bags, etc., to create a good environment for stamp storage and appreciation, and to cultivate a healthy philatelic habit for yourself.

4.Broaden the channels for stamp collection, beginners are advised to focus on letter stamps, even if you go to the postal market, you can also go to Taobao for some single loose stamps. You can pay attention to the letters of relatives and friends, and develop the habit of correspondence with postal friends and classmates.

5.Make some like-minded friends, you can ** philatelic knowledge together, exchange copies, and promote each other to improve together.

6.After you have a certain foundation, you can choose your favorite topic. The field of philately is vast and profound, so we should not be greedy for more than we can see, try to choose a certain theme, order some newly issued annual passes if we have the financial ability, and move forward in a planned way.

7.Don't invest in philately, you may have a financial return, but lose the purpose of stamping. Value-added is only an additional gain in the philatelic process, but more about gaining knowledge and fun from the art of square inches.

8.Make full use of the content and information resources of the Internet. Now the Internet is very rich in content from philatelic knowledge or market, which greatly reduces the dilemma that it is difficult for early postmen to buy professional books, and we should make full use of this platform to go to some forums frequented by senior postmen.

This is a 30-year veteran postman's experience, and I hope it can be helpful to you.

What the teacher on the first floor said is heartfelt, and it is worth studying carefully for the landlord.

There are ten main ways to collect stamps:

a) Collect new unused tickets.

This is the most common way to do this. It is more convenient, there is no difficulty, and the financial burden is not large. You can collect it slowly.

If you usually do not have time to buy on the date of issuance of new stamps, you can buy 1 annual album per year, this kind of stamps loaded into the locator book, not only convenient for collection and safekeeping, but also the name of the stamp, the date of issue, the number of the full set, the number of perforations, and even the content of the stamp design.

b) Collection of cancelled stamps.

This is a cheaper stamp sold by stamp companies for new stamp collectors. It is to cancel the unused new stamp with the stamp company's special postmark. Its price is about 1 3 of the new ticket.

Higher-class philatelists generally do not collect it. These cancelled stamps were widely collected in the 50s and 60s, and it is rare to see cancelled stamps in new stamps issued today.

3) Collect old tickets that have been used.

This is a more common way of collecting. It doesn't cost much, it just takes a lot of effort to collect. Some of these high-value stamps are hard to find in the country; It's not cheap to go to the stamp market and buy it.

It has been argued that the smaller the stamp of the utility old ticket stamp, the better. In fact, it is not the case, first of all, it should be required that the postmark be clearly stamped, and it should also include the time and place completely, so that it can be used in the future research of postal history.

d) Collect mixed tickets.

Some first-time stamp collectors can collect stamps, whether they are cancelled stamps or utility stamps, and they can just put together a set. There are several ways to mix tickets; New lid mix, old and new lid mix, cover old mix. Either way, it's all together anyway.

This method is common not only in the stamp collections of the first collectors, but also in the stamp collections of some collectors.

5) Collect one new and one old.

If you have collected only one set of unused new stamps or used utility stamps (cancelled stamps) and have not satisfied the collector's preference, you can combine the old and the new stamps. Because some stamps have different difficulties between new and old stamps.

6) Collect the stamps of the Quartet Company.

The collection of stamps can be divided into the collection of new stamps, the cancelled stamps and the practical old stamps. Among them, the new ticket Quartet is the easiest to obtain. The collection of the Practical Old Ticket Quartet is the most difficult.

7) Collect a single ticket and a square ticket.

This method can be divided into collecting new tickets and new square tickets, old tickets and old square tickets. At present, Japanese stamp dealers also print stamp albums for such collectors. This method of collecting is gradually being accepted by more collectors.

8) Collect one vote and one letter.

For each stamp collected, a physical envelope (preferably a first-day envelope) with the stamp affixed to it is also collected.

9) Collect a vote, a party company, and a day cover.

It is to collect a stamp, a quadripartite stamp and a first day cover (actual or not).

10) Collect full-page tickets.

There are some philatelists who are more financially powerful and specialize in collecting full-page stamps.

Significance of collecting stamps:

1. It is beneficial for the cultivation of patriotism. Philatelic enthusiasts can see the long history, splendid culture, scientific inventions, splendid rivers and mountains, scenic spots, outstanding sons and daughters, and rich products of the motherland from the stamps. It makes us love our motherland even more

Our nation.

2. It can enrich scientific and cultural knowledge. The subject matter of stamps is very rich, through the collection of stamps carefully studied, appreciated, scientifically classified, sorted, philatelic enthusiasts from the stamps can obtain political, economic, scientific, cultural, historical, astronomy, geography, sports, health and other aspects of knowledge and fun. Expand your knowledge and learn what you can't learn from textbooks.

3. It is conducive to cultivating people's sentiments. Stamps are very ideological propaganda materials, love and hate clearly, people will receive "truth, goodness, beauty" education in the appreciation of collection, cultivate noble character and good taste.

4. It is conducive to cultivating a beautiful mind. Each stamp is a small work of art, with thoughtful ideas, vivid forms, beautiful patterns, vivid colors, and profound content. People can improve their ability to appreciate art and enjoy beauty by repeatedly appreciating it.

5. You can develop the habit of saving. Philatelic enthusiasts save some pocket money to buy stamps, which adds up to support national construction on the one hand; On the other hand, because the value of stamps can increase every year, I have accumulated a considerable wealth by insisting on collecting them for a long time.

1.Types of stamps. So far, more than 200,000 species have been issued in countries around the world.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, 8 kinds of stamps have also been used (ordinary stamps, special stamps, commemorative stamps, military stamps, aviation stamps, stamped stamps, arrears stamps, post office stamps). When you just start collecting stamps, you should determine the scope of your collection according to your energy and economic conditions.

2.How to collect stamps. For example, collecting stamps on envelopes requires the help of old stamp collectors who exchange their copies for the stamps they lack.

The best thing to do is to open an account and pre-order, so you don't have to run around collecting new stamps for fear of missing out. After collecting a certain number of stamps, it can be compiled into a large number of pages, the number of pages is called "sketch philately", and the number of pages is called "thematic philately", and it is constantly supplemented and improved, and it will eventually become a grand spectacle.