Topical Stamp Collecting
Exhibiting Your Collection

Philatelic Elements

Include as many philatelic elements as appropriate for your topic, and then have as many different elements as possible (and in good taste) on a page.

• All of this while maintaining the orderly development of your exhibit
• “Appropriate” material, in national and international competitions, is that which has been issued for the purpose of moving the mail or other postal communications.
• Postage stamps and postal stationery
• Material officially produced by a postal administration leading up the actual stamp or stationery release: artist’s proofs, essays, specimens, and color trials)

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