Tips on Framing Your Stamp Collection

The stamp collection you wanted is on its way. You've rummaged mailbox and wastepaper bins post office, and saved your and your friends’ envelopes to get your first stamps. At this point, you start to think about where best to keep your stamp collection.

An ordinary cardboard shoebox gives or document folder can keep your stamps, but there should be better ways of keeping your collection. Your storage should also display your collection in addition to storing it. Also, the abovementioned methods can damage your stamps through dirt or creases and other environmental factors. So, why not frame the stamps themselves?

Stamps are relatively small, and you can store more of it in the frame. Also, the frames go on the walls and will not take up shelf or closet space in your home. To learn about the possibility of framing stamp collections, we should understand the basics of storing stamps.

Stamps have traditionally been kept in commercial stamp albums, and they are still the most popular way of keeping collections.

When considering storage for your stamp collection, consider some important ideas.

Your collection may end up in various kinds of storage. Depending on the quality of your collection as it grows, and your taste and preference as your experience and expertise in stamps increases, you may decide on many different kinds of storage methods through the years. So, don’t purchase too many storage items for your first stamp collection.

Also, any stamp collector must consider high-quality plastic sheets or sleeves to prevent tangles when stamps come in contact with each other.

Stamp albums are available in many sizes, formats, and binding types such as notebook-type, loose-leaf binding type, and three-hole binder type. Whatever the format and size, albums must always have sturdy acid-free paper to hold the stamp collection in.

Why the emphasis on protection and acid-free paper? Because stamps are very sensitive to environmental degradation.

High temperature, heavy sunlight, high humidity (which encourages mold spores or mildew), strong electric-powered lighting, photocopying machines, and even simple air can damage stamps collections.

Furthermore, several or all of the said factors can react with each other to create very bad conditions to your philatelic collection.

Specifically, sunlight all alone could very rapidly discolor and make newsprint to get brittle. Therefore, you must try to avoid decorating your home’s walls with your framed stamp collection.

If you still want to see stamps on hanging frames, consider inexpensive stamps or take photographic prints of your collection and place them in the frames.

Remember, a philatelist wants his collection to last a long time, so balance the need to decorate or display with care for your stamp collection.

Our section here on the site will show you how to start stamp collecting so that you will have fun, not pay too much for your stamps (or how to get them free)along with tips for how to know the value of your stamps if you decide to trade and sell stamps.

Stamp collecting is fun and affordable, for you, your kids and your friends. I have had many years of pleasure from my stamp collection.

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