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Beginner's Stamp Collecting Fun Kit: Everything You Need to Start a Fun and Fascinating Hobby
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| List Price: | $19.95 |
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Product Description
• An illustrated album with room for over 1,000 stamps
• A guide booklet that explains how to build and care for a collection
• A catalog listing hundreds of historic stamps available for purchase
• A magnifying glass
• Adhesive hinges for mounting stamps
• Starter pack of 25 real U.S. postage stamps
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #131761 in Books
- Published on: 2004-09-10
- Format: Box set
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
Customer Reviews
Beginner's Kit
My son wanted to look into stamp collecting. I don't know much about it. This is a good review/starting place to see what is involved in the hobby. It made a nice Christmas present, didn't cost much and showed him I had listened to his interests. Nice format and helpful included items.
A good beginning
This album is strictly for U.S. stamps and covers the early 1900's through 2005. There are some black and white illustrations for each year, as well as blank spaces for other stamps. The book would have been a little nicer with a spiral binding and illustrations in color. Pages that wouldn't lie flat were a definite frustration for our grandson. A few starter stamps were included, as well as hinges, but there were only about a dozen hinges, so the first thing we had to do was find a source for them. Still, it's a good functional album for providing a beginning without a large outlay of money.
Disappointed
We ordered this kit for a beginner at stamp collecting. We expected the album to be free-form, so he could save the stamps that he likes. Instead the album has pages for specific years, starting in 1901, and photos of specific stamps for many of the spaces. I'm not a stamp collector myself, and maybe this is a standard format, but it's not at all what we wanted. The Guide is okay, and the magnifying glass is inexpensive but okay. But we ordered the kit primarily for the album, and it's collecting dust on a shelf.
