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PHILATELIC
TOOLS
The
following are the accessories connected with stamp collecting:
Arrows:
These are small stickers in indifferent colours to affix on the
graph sheets to draw the attention of the viewers to the concerned
variations or error.
Album
Sheets or Graph Sheets: Album
sheets required for mourning of stamps for storage as well as for
exhibition purpose.
Brush:
A soft thin pointed brush dipped in water should be used for removal
of hinges from stamp. It will never make the stamp thin as the point
were hinge is fixed
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Catalogue:
In recent times the importance of catalogue has greatly
increased in the field of stamp collecting. The catalogue is a
price list of a particular stamp dealer. In catalogue we
find all matters related to stamps like description, date of
issue, watermark, perforation details, rate of mint and used
stamps with market rate at the time publication. The catalogue
also help the collector in mounting the stamps in the album in
the correct and proper way. |
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Hinges:
These are small strips extremely thin, normally made in butter paper
and used to mount used stamps on album pages
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Magnifying
glass: A stamp collector should possess a
magnifying glass. Stamps are generally printed very small or
intricate letters and, without the help of a magnifying glass,
they cannot be read easily. Stamps sent through the magnifying
glass take on a new image. People and scenes, especially on
engraved stamps, appear to come to life and you will need a good
glass to get real enjoyment from your stamps as well as looking
for errors and varieties. |
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Perforation
Gauge: Perforations are
characteristic of almost all modern stamps. Perforation Guage is a
philatelic accessory on card, celluloid or metal with graduated series of
dots and lines in coloumns of width 2 CMs. This is used for measuring
the perforation of stamps. The top measurement is always given first, then
the side measurement. Till 1854, stamps were issued on non - perforated
sheets and to seperate them a knife or scissor was used. This sometimes
resulted in the margin of the stamps being more or less, sometimes
the stamps were torn. To remove these defects and inconveniences,
the perforation system was adopted and the space between stamps began to
be perforated. In 1866, a French collector introduced
the method of measuring the perforation. Perforation guage also known as
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Scissors:
A good size scissors to cut out the stamps along with a small margin
on all the four sides of an envelop. If the cover is
interesting and has something noteworthy about it, if the
postmark, impression is clear, attractive and looks special, then
keep it untouched. Now modern trend is that the value of
stamps on cover is increasing
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Tweezers:
An Instrument made to handle stamps. Tweezers will protect stamps from
perspiration, skin oil, and din generally present on fingers. Tweezers
also known as stamp tongs. Tweezers are two kinds, round headed and
spade headed. |
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