Table of Contents

Andy's Stamp Page

Report of the American Philatelic Society Committee for the Preservation & Care of Philatelic materials

Index to FAQ REC.COLLECTING.STAMPS

Message from Phil updating STL 12/13/1998

Chapter 1 Introduction

1.1 Intro
1.2 Disclaimer
1.3 The STAMPSLIST
1.4 LISTSERV functions
1.5 Tiny fileserver
1.6 Who subscribes to the list?
1.7 rec.collecting.stamps

1.7.1 How did rec.collecting.stamps originate?
1.7.2 What is the purpose of rec.collecting.stamps?
1.7.3 Is rec.collecting.stamps moderated?
1.7.4 For how long are messages posted to rec.collecting.stamps?
1.7.5 Is there a rec.collecting.stamps archives?
1.7.6 What is the Stamp Trader's List (STL)?
1.7.7 How does the usenet philatelic newsletter service operate via rec.collecting.stamps?

1.8 Advertising on rcs
1.9 Related lists and newsgroups
1.10 Net trading etiquette
1.11 Foreign Languages and ASCII postings

Chapter 2 Catalogues

2.1 Intro
2.2 The value of catalogue values
2.3 Buying stamps
2.4 Scott pricing policy
2.5 Catalogue independent numbering system

Chapter 3 World catalogues

3.1 Scott
3.2 Stanley Gibbons
3.3 MICHEL
3.4 Yvert & Tellier

Chapter 4 Country Catalogues

4.1 Europe

4.2 North & South America

4.2.1 USA
4.2.2 Canada

4.3 Asia

4.3.1 China
4.3.2 Malaysia - Singapore
4.3.3 Thailand
4.3.4 Japan

4.4 Africa

4.4.1 South Africa

4.5 Australia, Pacific & Other

4.5.1 Australia
4.5.2 Australia

4.6 United Nations

Chapter 5 Specialised catalogues

5.1 Postal Stationary
5.2 List of Billig's Philatelic Handbooks

Chapter 6 CAP --- Computer Aided Philately

6.1 Intro
6.2 PCSG - Philatelic Computing Study Group
6.3 On-line resources

6.3.1 FTP sites
6.3.2 File servers
6.3.3 Gophers
6.3.4 Reading Usenet News
6.3.5 WWW

6.3.5.1 General & Pages that list a list of sites
6.3.5.2 Images
6.3.5.3 Postal authorities
6.3.5.4 Organized by topic
6.3.5.5 Collector's Home Pages
6.3.5.6 Commercial Offerings

6.3.6 BBS's

6.3.6.1 USPS RIBBS
6.3.6.2 Stampline BBS

6.3.7 Commercial services
6.3.8 Other

6.4 Making your own album pages
6.5 Stamp databases
6.6 CD-ROMs
6.7 Scanning

Chapter 7 Albums & Displaying stamps

7.1 Mounting stamps
7.2 Lighthouse
7.3 Ka-Be
7.4 Scott & Scott Platinum
7.5 Minkus
7.6 Lindner
7.7 Vario Pages
7.8 ``Homemade'' album pages
7.9 Harris
7.10 Stockbooks

Chapter 8 Soaking & pressing
Chapter 9 Restoring and cleaning damaged stamps

9.1 Removing Sellotape

Chapter 10 Topical collections
Chapter 11 Philatelic terms & abbreviations

11.1 Terms
11.2 Recapito Autorizzato
11.3 Dunes
11.4 CTO
11.5 Colours
11.6 Abbreviations
11.7 Abbreviations found on stamps
11.8 Overprints

Chapter 12 Stamps-related Organizations
Chapter 13 Stamps issuing Organizations
Chapter 14 Philatelic societies

14.1 General

14.1.1 American Philatelic Society (APS)
14.1.2 The American Philatelic Research Library (APRL)
14.1.3 The American Philatelic Congress
14.1.4 The Junior Philatelists of America
14.1.5 Methodist Philatelic Society
14.1.6 The American First Day Cover Society
14.1.7 The American Topical Association (ATA)
U.S. Philatelic Classics Society (USPCS)

14.2 Societies specializing in one Country

14.2.1 Great Britain
14.2.2 Thailand
14.2.3 India

14.3 Specialised societies

14.3.1 American Revenue Association (ARA)
14.3.2 The Meter Stamp society
14.3.3 Bureau Issues Association
14.3.4 British Caribbean Philatelic Study Group (BCPSG)

Chapter 15 National Philatelic Bureaus

15.1 Iceland
15.2 Netherlands
15.3 List of Addresses

Chapter 16 Worldwide Stamp Shops Guide

16.1 Intro
16.2 Mail order
16.3 London
16.4 New York

16.4.1 Subway Stamp Shop

16.5 Washington, D.C.
16.6 Elsewhere

Chapter 17 Magazines

17.1 General magazines

17.1.1 Linn's
17.1.2 The Philatelic Observer

17.2 Specialised magazines

Chapter 18 Foreign Exchange Rates

18.1 Sources
18.2 United Nations Gopher - 01-12-96

Chapter 19 Books

19.1 Some remarks on philatelic literature (Christoph Ozdoba)
19.2 Christoph Ozdoba's Collection of Philatelic Literature
19.3 Book review of I Inherited a Stamp Collection, Now What?
19.4 Review of Philately and the Computer
19.5 Varia
19.6 Libraries

19.6.1 APRL

19.7 List of Billig's Philatelic Handbooks
19.8 Bureau Issues

19.8.1 Update: Bureau Issues

Chapter 20 The Post

20.1 Postal rates
20.2 Address labels for your correspondence
20.3 Postal codes

20.3.1 Postal codes
20.3.2 German Postal codes

Chapter 21 Kids & Stamps

21.1 Introduction

21.1.1 Starting Kids on Stamps

Chapter 22 Special subjects

22.1 Machins
22.2 Barcodes on stamps
22.3 Holograms on stamps
22.4 Fluorescent dots/bars on stamps
22.5 Airmail & Express stickers
22.6 The 1993 Elvis stamp
22.7 Sending mail to less accessible countries
22.8 Perfins by Toke Norby (1996)

22.8.1 SPIFS - PERFINS. Foreword and Part 1
22.8.2 The PERFIN Perforating Machine
22.8.3 'Holy Toledo, Those Stamps have Holes' and What Shall We Call These Holes?
22.8.4 The Authorizations to Perforate Stamps
22.8.5 What About PERFINs in Denmark?
22.8.6 What About PERFINs in Other Countries?
22.8.7 Epilogue - 'The Never Ending Story'
22.8.8 Epilogue II or The Man Who Coined The Term PERFIN 22.9 Perfins by David Tilton

Chapter 23 Selling a collection

23.1 Book review of I Inherited a Stamp Collection, Now What?
23.2 Collector's opinions & and experiences

Chapter 24 Paraphernalia

24.1 UV lamps

Chapter 25 Technical info about stamps

25.1 Paper types
25.2 Perforations
25.3 Cancels
25.4 Colours

Chapter 26 The decline of stamp collecting?
Chapter 27 Identifying Stamps

27.1 Arabic languages

27.1.1 Foreign alphabets &

Chapter 28 New Issues

28.1 Lists
28.2 Hyperlinks
28.3 Listed by Country

28.3.1 Korea (South) 1995
28.3.2 Netherlands 1995
28.3.3 Hong Kong 1994

Chapter 29 Philatelic Correspondence

29.1 Part I - Franking your letter

29.1.1 Showing consideration to your trading partner
29.1.2 Buying only interesting stamps
29.1.3 Making the cover travel undamaged

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