Nooby From MD

hello all , I got started in stamps sort of by accident. I have been "picking" at auctions for a few years now. During a recent auction I purchased a box lot and there was a stamp album in the bottom. I didn't have a clue about stamps but after I started sorting through some of them and seeing some of the cool history they represent I got more interested, and after many internet searches I landed here. it is a very interesting hobby you can learn a lot of history from them. one of my problems is all of the variants it is hard for me to tell one from another, but it is still very interesting

Welcome nay sayer, yes it can be hard to tell which stamp is which some times.

Welcome! What country are your
Stamps from?

I think I have stamps from just about all countries the stamp album is really big probably 4 to 6 inches thick, most of the pages in book have hinged stamps on them, seems that germany, japan ,are most complete , but no country has all stamps hinged

Welcome nay sayer

Glad you could join us.

The missing stamps in the albums are probably the more costly ones. I have lots of missing stamps in mine.

Dianne

Welcome. May I suggest you start by reading a few articles if you haven't already:
The American Philatelic Association (APA) has a nice intro to collecting stamps at
http://stamps.org/Starting-a-Collection
Also Wikihow.com at
http://www.wikihow.com/Collect-Stamps
And of course Linn's at
http://www.linns.com/howto/wheretos...tostart.aspx