Stamp Collecting
Requirements
2001
- Do the following:
- Discuss how you can better understand people, places,
institutions, history, and geography as a result of collecting stamps.
- Briefly describe some aspects of the history, growth, and
development of the United States postal system. How is it different
from postal systems in other countries?
- Define topical stamp collecting. What are some other types of stamp
collections?
- Show at least ONE example of each of the following:
- Perforated and imperforate stamps
- Mint and used stamps
- Sheet-booklet and coil stamps
- Numbers on plate block, booklet, coil, or marginal markings
- Overprint and surcharge
- Metered mail
- Definitive, commemorative, semipostal, and airmail stamps
- Cancellation and postmark
- First day cover
- Postal stationery (aerogramme, stamped envelope, and postal card)
- Do the following:
- Demonstrate the use of ONE standard catalog for several different
stamp issues. Explain why catalog value can vary from the
corresponding purchase price.
- Explain the meaning of the term CONDITION as used to describe a
stamp. Show examples that illustrate the different factors that affect
a stamp's value.
- Demonstrate the use of at least THREE of the following stamp
collector's tool:
- Stamp tongs
- Water and Tray
- Magnifiers
- Hinges
- Perforation gauge
- Envelopes and sleeves
- Watermark fluid
- Do the following:
- Show a stamp album and how to mount stamps with or without hinges.
Show at least ONE page that displays several stamps.
- Discuss at least THREE ways you can help to preserve stamps,
covers, and albums in first-class condition.
- Do at least TWO of the following:
- Design a stamp, cancellation, or cachet.
- Visit a post office, stamp club, or stamp show with an experienced
collector. Explain what you saw and/or did.
- Write a review of an interesting article from a stamp newspaper,
magazine, or book.
- Research and report on a famous stamp-related personality or the
history behind a particular stamp.
- Describe the steps taken to produce a stamp. include the methods
of printing, types of paper, perforation styles, and how they are
gummed.
- Prepare a two-to-three page display involving stamps. Using
ingenuity, as well as clippings, drawings, etc., tell a story about
the stamps. How do they relate to history, geography, or a favorite
topic of yours?
- Mount and show, in a purchased or homemade album, ONE of the
following:
- A collection of 250 or more different stamps from at least 15
countries.
- A collection of a stamp from each of 50 different countries,
mounted on maps to show the location of each.
- A collection of 100 or more different stamps from either one
country or a group of closely related countries.
- A collection of 75 or more different stamps on a single topic.
(Some interesting topics are Scouting, birds, insects, the Olympics,
sports, flowers, animals, ships, Christmas, trains, famous people,
space, and medicine) Stamps may be from different countries.
- A collection of postal items discovered in your mail by monitoring
over a period of thirty days. Include at least five different types
listed in requirement 3, above.
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