SOME DON'TS IN PHILATELY

1. Do not handle or lift the stamps with your fingers. Use a tweezers to do so, otherwise the stamp would either get dirty or spoilt.

2. Do not remove the stamps from the envelops till you are certain that they   are ordinary ones. Many stamped envelops, particularly old ones, have very high value.

3. Do not wash the stamps pasted on coloured envelopes along with other stamps, otherwise the letter can be spoilt.

4. Do not mount damaged or dirty stamps in your collection as they would demark the beauty of your album page.

5. Only use hinges and mounts for mounting the stamps. Do not use gum or paper pieces.

6. Do not try to mount the maximum number of stamps on a stamp-page  and mount then at some distance from each other. By doing so, you would enhance the beauty of the album page.

7. Leave the margin on your collection page.

8. Do not make a border around your stamps or page.

9. To write description of stamps use only black ink. Do not use coloured inks. Do not use sketch pen.

10. Do not mount your stamps in your collection, until you do not know about the correct name of the country. If you are unable to do so, take help of a senior stamp collector.

11. Do not remove the hinge from the stamps till it is fully dry, otherwise your stamps would be spoilt.

12. Do not mount your stamps in haste but do so in a planned way, making designs. They would look pretty in this way.

13. Do not use catalogue till you have grasped its preliminaries.

14. Do not consider a stamp a duplicate till you have carefully, minutely and fully studied its design.