Articles by Melise Richter

WHAT IS a FIRST DAY COVER (FDC) ? A FDC is an envelope, card or other postal material with a stamp that was processed on […]

  Stamp collecting is probably one of the most popular indoor hobbies that exists.  Collecting stamps adds tons of information to our brains, whether young […]

The first and most important thing stamp collectors are told is simple: DO NOT TOUCH THE STAMPS Fingerprints may never be the same, but one […]

Stamps are collected in various formats and are are found singly, in pairs, in threes, in blocks, in strips and in coils. The words Sheets and […]

As this is a very technical area of stamp collecting, I have made use of the information obtained from two websites and I wish to […]