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• Beware of stamps displayed on "old album pages"
• by stamptraveller( 1180)
• I was caught once by this trick, and quite handily too. A seller, who shall remain nameless and who has since disappeared from eBay after, I suspect, wreaking much havoc, knowingly or unknowingly placed some... 

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  forgeries | forgery | stamps | "as is" | bad seller

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• ABBREVIATIONS L - Z found in STAMP AUCTION LOTS
• by audrasforest( 7088)
• This GUIDE explains next 41 ( L -Z) ABBREVIATIONS that you will find when you view EBAY auction lots which relate to the Philatelic Section under the EBAY CATEGORY "STAMPS" Why are abbreviations used? Since... 

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  POSTAGE STAMPS | WORLDWIDE STAMPS | UNITED STATES STAMPS | COMMONWEATH STAMPS | AUSTRALIA MIXTURES

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• Beware of some box lots.
• by mjs_philatelics( 3315)
• A new ruse that I have been noticing is some dealers that have been selling these “unsearched box lots”. These dealers are buying modern stamps that are on paper by the pound. They are paying just a couple of... 

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  collection | lot | mixture

• 111 of 125 people found this guide helpful

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• ALL ABOUT STAMP DEALERS FOR THE BEGINNER
• by pennyclassics( 2446)
• During the last fifty years I have had dealings with hundreds of stamp dealers. They ranged from the smallest to the largest, the sadly ignorant to the world-class expert, the poor to the wealthy, the crooked... 

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  STAMPS | PHILATELY | US STAMPS | WORLDWIDE STAMPS | STAMP COLLECTING

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• HOW TO SOAK STAMPS
• by happybear123( 8382)
• THE PURPOSE OF THE GUIDE IS TO EXPLAIN HOW TO SOAK STAMPS WITH YELLOW OR PAPER THAT BLEEDS, WE HAVE ALL SEEN STAMPS WITH STAINS AFTER SOAKING. tHIS IS WHAT I CALL SPEED SOAKING 1) YELLOW, RED, BLUE PAPER(ANY... 

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  STAMPS | SOAKING | YELLOW PAPER | STAINS | KILOWARE

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