This page is for all beginners in stamp collecting. You're never too young or too old to get started and this is your home page. You have just found a box full of stamps, or some loose stamps in an envelope, and you would like to know how much they're worth. First, I must point out that there are over a half million different stamps out there. So, there is no very simple rule for finding the prices of them.
Most people begin by saving interesting stamps from their mail, adding others cadged from friends.
With about 10,000 new stamps issued each year by more than 200 countries, it is almost impossible to maintain a worthwhile world collection, so most collectors concentrate on a few countries or select themes such as animals, birds, railways or sport. You are here at the beginning of an ambitious project to create and maintain a definitive on-line reference collection of the insect related postage stamps as well as some virtual exhibits of subsets of the collection. And despite its apparent decline as hobby for young people, it still is a great way to combine geography, armchair travel, history, and own's one personal view of world into a single pastime. Most countries issue their own stamps, but belong to an international postal union. This is why there are similarities among all postage stamps, which makes collecting worldwide stamps extremely fun.