Numerical Stamp grading

Our modern philatelic trend of specialization has been partly the result of a world wide glut of new postal issues that have made most collectors unable and unwilling to collect worldwide stamps. Another less commented on change in collecting habits has come from this overabundance of new issues too. It is the increasing emphasis on quality. An overwhelming basket of new stamps each year has forced collectors to restrict in many ways the number of stamps that they will consider for their collecting.Quality restrictions are the natural consequence of restrictive collecting. In the early days of stamp collecting acquiring a packet of a couple hundred stamps meant hours of sorting, arranging and cataloging that would put a gleam in the eye of a collector of my grandfather

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