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Discussion - Member to Member Sales - Research Center
As a kid, I found it difficult back in the 80's to research stamps in my collection and eventually gave up collecting. When I recently inherited my two new "Collections", I decided to turn to the web to help me with determining what I had as well as the value of the collection. I also needed to brush up on quite a bit of information in regards to the hobby. I found the following sites VERY helpful in identifying United States stamps, as well as information on collecting.
Mystic Stamp Company
http://www.mysticstamp.com/
Although these guys are a retailer of stamps, thier online catlog is like having a digital Scott's Catlog when it comes to identifying your unknown stamp. In most cases, they offer you some background information on the stamp, the subject matter of the stamp, or both.
Smithsonian National Postal Museum
http://arago.si.edu/
The search peice was helpful for finding the stamps that didn't immediately come up in Mystic's catlog. In most cases, they offer you some background information on the stamp, the subject matter of the stamp, or both.
United States Postal Cards Collector's Page
http://webspace.webring.com/people/au/um_7017/
This site gave me brief descriptions and dates for Postal Cards which I had to identify a few from the "collections".
U.S. Stamps With Hidden Images
http://sites.google.com/site/stamphiddenimages/Home
This was a fun little site about stamps that need the Stamp Decoder to see the hidden messages. I had inherited a few of these stamps and was researching them when I stumbled across this site.
AskPhil - Collectors Club of Chicago
http://www.askphil.org/
You guys pointed me out to this little gem of information.
Stamporama
http://www.stamporama.com/
Obviously you all know how good this site is, your reading this message here but I include it now for telling people where to go for help and knowledge.
OK, so I've shared my secret stash of webpages. anyone have some others that they use? I'm actually curious if there is an online catlog similiar to Mystic's that helps with identifying foriegn stamps.
Pat
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Pat
You have only scratched the surface! Three more good sites for U.S. stamps are-
The Yahoo group US specialised
Richard Frajola 's site - good for postal history.
The Virtual stamp Club.
I am a worldwide collector and I have a note book of sites in alphabetical order by country ( and also non-philatelic sites on history, geography and other info ).An evening spent intelligently googling will repay with a list of useful sites as long as your arm - actually both arms,both legs and then some.
V isiting websites like Stamporama ( there are several others of the same ilk ) will often throw up other websites of interest as references.Most of the Specialist societies have websites with useful information ( and further links ). The amount of information on the web is awesome - and the system of linking is excellent "time-value". There are also a number of webrings and portals.
If you are looking for something specific why not enquire here - I can't be the only one with a "private list".
Malcolm
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I thought I would actually contribute something instead of just asking questions.
As a kid, I found it difficult back in the 80's to research stamps in my collection and eventually gave up collecting. When I recently inherited my two new "Collections", I decided to turn to the web to help me with determining what I had as well as the value of the collection. I also needed to brush up on quite a bit of information in regards to the hobby. I found the following sites VERY helpful in identifying United States stamps, as well as information on collecting.
Mystic Stamp Company
http://www.mysticstamp.com/
Although these guys are a retailer of stamps, thier online catlog is like having a digital Scott's Catlog when it comes to identifying your unknown stamp. In most cases, they offer you some background information on the stamp, the subject matter of the stamp, or both.
Smithsonian National Postal Museum
http://arago.si.edu/
The search peice was helpful for finding the stamps that didn't immediately come up in Mystic's catlog. In most cases, they offer you some background information on the stamp, the subject matter of the stamp, or both.
United States Postal Cards Collector's Page
http://webspace.webring.com/people/au/um_7017/
This site gave me brief descriptions and dates for Postal Cards which I had to identify a few from the "collections".
U.S. Stamps With Hidden Images
http://sites.google.com/site/stamphiddenimages/Home
This was a fun little site about stamps that need the Stamp Decoder to see the hidden messages. I had inherited a few of these stamps and was researching them when I stumbled across this site.
AskPhil - Collectors Club of Chicago
http://www.askphil.org/
You guys pointed me out to this little gem of information.
Stamporama
http://www.stamporama.com/
Obviously you all know how good this site is, your reading this message here but I include it now for telling people where to go for help and knowledge.
OK, so I've shared my secret stash of webpages. anyone have some others that they use? I'm actually curious if there is an online catlog similiar to Mystic's that helps with identifying foriegn stamps.
Pat
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re: Stamp Research Websites...
Pat
You have only scratched the surface! Three more good sites for U.S. stamps are-
The Yahoo group US specialised
Richard Frajola 's site - good for postal history.
The Virtual stamp Club.
I am a worldwide collector and I have a note book of sites in alphabetical order by country ( and also non-philatelic sites on history, geography and other info ).An evening spent intelligently googling will repay with a list of useful sites as long as your arm - actually both arms,both legs and then some.
V isiting websites like Stamporama ( there are several others of the same ilk ) will often throw up other websites of interest as references.Most of the Specialist societies have websites with useful information ( and further links ). The amount of information on the web is awesome - and the system of linking is excellent "time-value". There are also a number of webrings and portals.
If you are looking for something specific why not enquire here - I can't be the only one with a "private list".
Malcolm
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