HINTS FOR STAMP COLLECTORS

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 12, 7 October 1927, Page 15

HINTS FOR STAMP COLLECTORS

Who collects postage stamps? Boys --and girls, too-of Australia are Incky enough to have someone to tell: them all about stamps. ‘They are having 4 series of talks on stamp coilecting. during the Children’s Hour, froni3LO Melbourne. An expert is telling them al! about their origin, values, watermarks; hew to start a collection, haw. to classify specimens, and a thousand and one other things connected with this fascinating and absorbing hobby. It is making every boy long to possess # stamp album of his own, , Do anv of vou collect stamps? If so, you know for yourselves how fascinating it is, To get the best ont of it you have to make a really serious study of postage stamps, and learn the different value of the rarer kinds. Ry- this means vou will be able to make eareful exchanges. and you wil) always enjoy the thrill and excitement of hoping to possess a valuable stamp! Most children, because they don’t ‘know, ruin their specimens by sticking ‘them down with gum, so that they cai never be ta ken off without cutting the paper The correct way to stick them: dowit is o use proper mounts. This wil} protect vour collection from damage. Et is as well to remember that it is not only very old stamps that are most valuable-it is the fact that there are not many of them that make some specimens worth so much. Then, again, ‘their condition alters their value~ sometimes the post-mark nearly ruins them, or thev may be nearly defaced. The perforations (round the edge) count tor a lot, and the kind of. paper they are made from; but you- really need an. expert philatelist (the proner name for a stamp collector!) to tell you all these thines. Who knows? We may find one to telk to von -before tong! I expect vou know that a numher of stamps were issued during the war, and thev will never be issued again; these, of course, will in time become valuable, so if you have any be sure to keep them.