As Collecting Stamps

    In the first place, it is necessary to have clear if the collection goes to consist of new or used stamps and which its content will be. Although they are formed mixed collections of new and used stamps it is advisable to not mix them.

Advantages and Disadvantages :

    The following step consists on determining the content of the collection, adapting it to the economic possibilities and the readiness of time, because so important it is to know how much money she/he will wear out as the dedication that is required to organize and to form this collection.

 Most of the collectors usually opt for the stamps of their country like initial collection, extending once to other countries advanced this. In the countries in those that the emissions go back to last century, these are divided in historical times or philatelic periods.

    To Be made with a complete collection of Great Britain, Spain, France, etc., only this within reach of some few ones due to their high cost, for what is frequent to be limited to a time.

    The thematic collections are those that bigger increment has experienced lately, for two fundamental reasons: in the first place because they allow the topic that the collector likes among those a lot that they illustrate the stamps; and second because they gather this way from all over the world stamps but without seeking to embrace all those of a country.

Other forms of collecting

Collection of stamps has more than enough letters; letter of 1859 transported by the ship Ville of Lisbonne from Gibraltar to Cádiz, with stamp of 2 pennies, blue for the payment of the marine rate (ship letter), matasellado in Gibraltar; and I seal of 4 rooms for the payment of the Spanish mail, matasellado in Cádiz. Besides the collections of stamps for countries or topics, others of remarkable philatelic interest exist, as those of marks previous to the appearance of the stamps of mail; those dedicated to postmark and marks from the appearance of the stamp; the specialization in oneself stamp with their variants and composition of irons; those of stamps have more than enough letter that you/they enlarge the knowledge it has more than enough postal history, etc.

As Collecting

     - Used Stamps:

To recover them of the correspondence they cut themselves of the envelopes with enough riverbank it not stops to damage the teeth. All the stamps have more than enough paper they must wash themselves with clean and lukewarm water, in which will have been dissolved some salt so that the colors don't lose temper. At the little time they will become unstuck by themselves, and anyway will never try to accelerate this operation since they could be fleshed and to be disabled. Pale for the laundry of the stamps. It is necessary to add some salt to the water to avoid the degradation of the colors. Once detached the stamps allow to dry off on estraza paper or blotter, to be able to be white, with the obverse down and never in the sun or next to a focus of intense heat, because they are warped and decoloran. Once dry, they are placed under a plane and heavy object to iron them. Achieved this, you can already proceed to their classification, for it se  usually follows the following approach: They are collected by series, once obtained they are classified by countries and the faulty ones are eliminated, later they are subdivided by sizes and then for topics. Classifier of stamps. It is used to keep the exemplary ones until their definitive placement in the album. Arrived to this point a catalog of the country it is needed in order to compare the stamps and knowledge which they lack to form the series. In a principle we will keep them in a classifier that is cheaper than an album. When the quantity of stamps is important it will be acquired an album corresponding to the thematic one or elected country. The fixation of the stamps in these albums is made by means of fixed stamps or hinges that allow to lift the stamp to check the printed data in the leaf and to observe it from behind. They should never be used in new stamps since they depreciate them.

      - New Stamps:

Material of File and classification

The following material is needed:

1- Classification records, they can have protector it covers or not, as well as to vary the number of bands to place those

stamps according to their size. Their utility is very wide: they are good to classify, to file, as well as to make shippings and exchanges. They are also used to keep surpluses. Records of quality should be acquired to guarantee the good conservation

File records and classification with white and black bottom, more a payment record and shipment with cover protector.

2- Wait leaf, it consists on a similar leaf to the record classification, but of the size of the album and with perforations to fix it to this. To differs of the ordinary leaf in that takes in all their surface bands of support of great capacity, to contain the emissions that you/they go appearing

Wait leaf with leaf protector of paper brillantine that is placed in the album.

awaiting that the leaves of the album are published that correspond. It is usually located at the end of the album. It is convenient to buy it at the same time that the album.

3- Envelopes of paper brillantine, their name is due to the treatment with paraffin that undergoes the paper to make it more resistant to the humidity. This paper is the most appropriate to conserve the stamps, and it is used in classifiers, records,

division leaves and they maintain contact with the stamps in how many elements. They are also translucent and they allow to see their content.

Envelopes of paper brillantine of different sizes for the file and manipulation of the stamps.

4- Filing cabinets of leaves , Made with paper brillantine and in different sizes, some notebooks or notebooks filing cabinets exist in the market for complete leaves of stamps that separate some leaves of others inside some bags to end

Filing cabinets of leaves, manufactured in paper brillantine of different sizes, in function of the necessities of the market.

of to preserve them of the humidity and to avoid that they stick among them.

5- Álbum, it is the most appropriate place to exhibit the collector's achievements that it will put good care in appealing to albums and protective of grateful quality.

Auxiliary instruments of the Collector

1. Filigranoscopio, used to observe the filigree that you/they possess some stamps and this way to be able to differentiate them.
2. Increase eyeglasseses, because the texts and reasons are almost always very small, their view and study require the use of glasses magnifying, thread counter and microscopes according to the cases.
3. You guillotine and cutters, To avoid to have to cut to scissor the protectors in ribbons.
4. Odontómetro, In their first pages the catalogs usually take form an odontómetro. It is good to count the number of teeth or perforations that you/they enter in lineal 20 mm. and it can vary so much in vertical sense as horizontal, being a susceptible detail of modifying the classification of a stamp.
5. Pincers, to avoid damages to the stamp, this should never catch with the fingers. The pincers are the appropriate instrument to manipulate it, mainly if it is new, since it is easy to deteriorate or to dirty the rubber or to alter the inks of the impression.

The philatelic value of a Stamp

    The value of a stamp is determined by the shortage, that makes that she/he revalues, although also this should go accompanied by the demand, it also intervenes the time with whose course the stamps are dispersed, they diminish in number and its localization is more difficult. When it is old or classic stamps, a fourth element, the conservation intervenes. This modifies the rate substantially for oneself type, according to the state of present conservation.

Chart of Identification of Countries

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