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If you  stamps & stamp collecting, and want to increase your knowledge on these topics, then you have come to right place.

Dec 30th 2018…. SCB’s Stamp exchange is taking a break and will return sometime in 2019 (more of that in below paragraphs). Please do not submit exchange letters right now! If you are interested in exchanging stamps with me, you have come to the right place. Over the last eight years, I’ve made over 500 successful stamp exchanges (view archives for 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 2017 and 2018) using this blog. Anyone can participate, but there is a specific set of practices and rules that all participants MUST agree to follow. The rules of exchange for 2019 … are under progress. As those participating/following the stamp exchange related talks (of 2017-2018) have read, there are GREAT changes afoot with postal regulations worldwide. They are affecting not just me, but every person on the planet who uses snailmail to send goods (such as stamps) internationally. Because of these […]

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• Generally speaking about stamps, philately and collecting
• Learn the basics of stamp collecting - advice on how to get started
• How to preserve and build a stamp collection
• Philatelic knowledge base
• Stamp forgeries, philatelic fakes and other counterfeits
• Stamp collecting software (inventory programs and databases, online stamp catalogs etc)
• Straight talk about stamp values (both catalog and real world)
• Back of book stamps and other unusual stamp-like items
• EFO-stamps: errors, freaks and oddities on postage stamps
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