| HOW DO I PUT MY STAMPS IN AN ALBUM
First of all, you must never use glue, or sticky tape, or any other pieces of sticky paper.
 You can buy special stamp hinges. These are small pieces of specially gummed paper. You fold your hinge roughly one third along its length. Gently moisten the shorter piece, and place it on the back of your stamp, just under the top perforations. Now gently moisten a little part of the rest of the hinge, and fix this to your stamp album page. Using stamp tweezers, you can carefully position your stamp.
You can buy special ‘plastic’ stamp mounts. These are little pockets with a clear front, and either a black or clear backing. They keep your stamps safe and clean, but are quite expensive. Unless you have very special stamps you want to protect, stamp hinges will be fine.
NEVER use glue, or sticky tape to stick stamps in an album!!
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You will have far more fun with your collection if you arrange it in a proper order.
If you collect the stamps of just one country, very often the stamps are put in the date order in which they were first issued.
However, if you collect a theme, you can tell a story with your stamps. You must work out your story carefully before you start mounting your stamps, and adding any descriptions.
An example - if you collect animals, you could take a world tour, say a Continent at a time, showing the animals found in each country.
If you collect a sport, you could show the history of the sport, followed by the way in which it is played, and follow up with any major competitions.
click the Stampex logo for a link to the Stampex site
(It is a bit boring I warn you - but useful!)
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