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How To Take Care Of Your Postage Stamps Collection
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Apart from being a fun and great hobby, collecting postage stamps can also be considered an important and financially rewarding leisure pursuit. For one, there’s very good money in keeping and selling commemorative or rare postage stamps. Also, stamps may be small and simple but they stand for a piece of history, a certain individual and a country. Hence, it’s important to value every postage stamp.
There are a number of ways to take care of these valuable collectibles. First off, you can buy a waterproof stamp album. Make sure that you buy enough pieces so as to accommodate your entire collection. Alternatively, you may want to purchase a stock book with small pockets you can insert the stamps into. Choose an album that has enough space for each stamp. Let the stamp “breathe”. Besides, it would also look better if each and every stamp gets “featured”. Keep the album off a busy desk and keep food, cigarettes, lighters, matches and drinks at bay. Avoid accidents! Secondly, don’t use your fingers in handling stamps. Experts of philately (the study of stamps) say that any outside matter such as a fingerprint can decrease the stamp’s value. This is why experts discourage the mere use of fingers to take a stamp off an envelope. They reckon that the best way to take it off is to let the stamped envelope undergo a process called “steaming”. Ask where you can buy a pair of flat bladed stamp collector’s tongs. Use this to transfer each stamp. Avoid using the regular pair of tweezers! The tweezers’ sharp points may damage the stamp.
Thirdly, avoid using both sides of an album page. Doing this allows the stamps on one side to come in contact with the stamps on the other side of the page. Don’t let that happen since it may decrease the value of the stamp. Fourthly, use inserts for the album. Place them in between pages to further keep the stamps from coming in contact with each other. An ideal insert can be as thin as onion skin paper. Don’t hesitate to ask the local school supply store which inserts are usually bought by stamp collectors. Fifthly, purchase stamp mounts or clear plastic sleeves with gummed surface. Use these to handle the precious stamps that are still in mint condition. The mounts can help protect the stamps since the gummed surface can maintain the adhesive on the back of the precious stamp. Lastly, never let your stamps get in contact with direct sunlight. This can cause discoloration and can also melt the adhesive on the back of the stamp.
Preserve your stamps by following these steps. Your collection deserves nothing but proper care.
Jeff Dodd loves to view and collect Postage Stamps Come visit us at http://www.totalstamps.com
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The History And Origin Of Valentine’s Day
The oldest Valentine card still in existence was sent in 1415 by Charles Duke of Orleans, at the time a prisoner in the Tower of London, to his wife. The Duke’s Valentine’s card is now preserved and displayed in the British Museum.
However, the origins of Valentine’s Day lie in ancient Rome. Over the years the ever expanding Roman empire became more difficult to police and there was an increasing shortage of soldiers. Believing that married men were too attached to their families and unlikely to sign up for active service, Emperor Claudius II banned marriage, thinking this would increase the number of quality recruits.
The story goes that a Christian priest by the name of Valentine, seeing the unhappiness and trauma that resulted, secretly married couples in defiance of the new law.
It wasn’t long before Emperor Claudius found out about Valentine’s actions and the priest was imprisoned and eventually executed on February 14, 270.
Whilst in prison, Valentine was befriended by his jailer, a character called Asterius. Asterius had a blind daughter and the jailer asked Valentine to cure her, which he supposedly did. Shortly before his execution, Valentine asked for writing implements and signed a farewell message to the jailer’s daughter “From your Valentine”, a phrase that has lived on, much to the delight of modern day florists, rose growers and card companies!
Author: Tony Luck runs a personalized gifts site that specializes, among other things, in personalized ceramics – greeting cards, commemorative plates and tankards.
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What Royal Collectibles To Sell On EBay And Other Auction Sites
Royal memorabilia goes back decades to the restoration of Charles II to the British throne in the 1600s. It is here that the first commemorative ceramics appeared, most popular among them being delft, slipware, and majolica.
In pre-Victorian times royal memorabilia was in limited supply and always of the highest quality and went largely to wealthy families. Lovingly cared for and handed down through the generations or passed to museums, you’ll find very few really rare pieces available on the market today.
Then came the Victorians’ with their love of all things cheap and tacky, and spawning a multitude of inexpensive collectibles depicting a royal personage or some important event. Collecting royal memorabilia was no longer just for the rich and famous, and virtually every family had its own array of battered souvenir biscuit tins, cheap ceramics, dirty food tins, stained chemist bottles – all depicting royals or important events of the day.
These latter items can turn up in profusion at boot sales, flea markets and auctions and generally they’re worth very little, especially in dirty and damaged condition. But if the price is right, say just a few pounds a go, these items are worth buying and listing for a few pounds extra on eBay and hoping for a great deal more.
Most royal collectibles from Victorian times were designed to be used, unlike their decorative counterparts from earlier times, and few clean items from the mid to late 1800s have survived the decades intact. Consequently, a clean, unbattered, still boxed Victorian piece of royal memorabilia is obviously worth a premium over imperfect pieces and can make good profits on eBay.
Pottery and china, especially quality types like Royal Doulton, Wedgwood and Delft, are among the most collectable areas of royal memorabilia and can fetch good profits. On the right day, when bidders are few, such items are always worth a risk bid at local auction. Following closely is glassware, souvenir tins, plates, figurines, dolls and other ceramics. Coins and medals are also popular, so too are ephemeral items like postcards, advertising cards, programmes and menus, magazines, headline newspapers.
For obvious reasons you’ll rarely find anything immensely valuable from the earliest times on most car boot sale stalls although they do sometimes turn up at auction. For example, at Morpeth a year or so back, a necklace engraved ‘C R’ (a commoner’s initials or the King’s cipher ‘Charles Rex’?), and dated some time in the 1600s, was estimated to fetch between £50 and £100. It went for more than £5,000, much to the annoyance of the auctioneer who learned later (once the goods had been paid for and handed over) the item was probably worth much more than five grand and had almost certainly belonged to a member of the court of Charles the Second, perhaps even Charlie Boy himself!
Okay, you won’t find things turning up like that every day and most viewers at the auction had missed the engraving anyway, but given just two non-specialist participating bidders on the day, there’s still scope to buy such an item cheap and sell it on later. To resell such an item you’d need to get specialist advice or risk losing a potential fortune. But you must not seek advice from the auction company that’s just sold a precious gem at a pittance. Their advice is obviously not sound or they’d have spotted their earlier mistake before auctioning the item. Big auction companies like Bonham’s, Phillips and Christie’s are the places to have your finds valued and potentially to have those big name companies sell for you. All have offices across the country with advisors who may even visit you to view. Once you have their advice, you’re not obliged to sell with them, you can still sell on eBay, only now you’ll be better skilled to describe your item correctly and choose an appropriate starting price and reserve.
Avril Harper is an eBay PowerSeller and author of BANK BIG PROFITS SELLING VINTAGE TOPOGRAPHICAL VIEW POSTCARDS ON EBAY which you can read about at: www.sellpostcardsonebay.com and MAKE MONEY TEARING UP OLD BOOKS AND MAGAZINES AND SELLING THEM ON EBAY which you can read about at: www.magstoriches.com
She has produced a free guide – 103 POWERSELLER TIPS – which you can download with REGULAR FREE EBAY PROFIT REPORTS at www.powersellerprofitreports.com
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The Origins Of Mother’s Day
Today Mother’s Day or Mothering Sunday is celebrated all over the world. For florists and card shops the event is one of the highlights of the year, but the roots of Mother’s Day are not commercial.
Motherhood has been celebrated since ancient times. The ancient Greeks paid homage to Rhea, the Mother of Gods; and there are records of the ancient Romans worshiping a mother Goddess known as Cybele as early as 260 BC. Festivals took place in the spring which was the most fertile time of the year.
The more modern way of honouring mothers began in England in the 1600s where Mothering Sunday was observed on the fourth Sunday of Lent. This day is also known as ‘Refreshment Sunday’, the only day when you are allowed to eat or do whatever you have given up for Lent. Not surprisingly, families came together and took the opportunity to party with a big meal at which mother was treated as the guest of honour. Traditionally, mothers were given posies of flowers and a cake.
The term ‘Mothering Sunday’ is now falling into disuse and has mostly been replaced by ‘Mother’s Day’, which is used the world over.
In the USA there were several attempts to introduce a Mother’s Day as a way to celebrate peace and heal the scars of war. Julia Ward, who wrote the words to the Battle Hymn of the Republic, suggested the idea in 1872. But the idea didn’t really take off until Anna Jarvis campaigned for the establishment of a Mother’s Day to commemorate her own mother who died in 1905. Ward’s mother herself had tried to establish a similar holiday, Mother’s Friendship Day, to heal the pain of the Civil War.
The first Mother’s Day in the USA was held in 1907 when Julia Ward held a ceremony to honour her mother. She then successfully campaigned for a formal holiday to honour mothers and by 1911 most states had taken up the idea. This was followed in 1914 by a declaration by President Woodrow Wilson that Mother’s Day should be celebrated as a national holiday on the second Sunday in May. The idea quickly spread to Canada and Mexico and many more countries throughout the world.
The commercialisation of Mother’s Day quickly followed, much to the disgust of Anna Jarvis who was arrested in 1923 at a Mother’s Day festival for trying to stop women selling flowers. Jarvis said “I wanted it to be a day of sentiment not profit”.
Ironically Anna Jarvis campaigned for many years against the commercialisation of Mother’s Day, the day she had worked so hard to establish.
Although she had no children of her own, each Mother’s Day Anna received hundreds of cards from all over
the world. Anna Jarvis died in 1948.
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Author: Tony Luck who runs on online personalized gift shop specializing in personalized ceramics – greeting cards (yes, ceramic greeting cards!), commemorative plates and mugs.
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