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    Adventures of a STAMP NEWBIE COLLECTING FOR BEGINNERS

    Oct 16, 2020 2 minutes

    Confession: my first purchase was a box of unsorted British commemorative stamps (the ones with fancy pictures) and I wasn’t entirely sure how to affix them to some pre-printed album pages I’d also acquired. So I did the obvious thing and glued them. With a glue stick.

    Rookie mistake! Not only does it ruin the back of the stamp, I also couldn’t easily lift

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