What a year to collect great British stamps!
Stamp collecting is said to be the most complex collecting hobby known and this becomes totally understandable once you look into collecting stamps properly. It’s unbelievable at actually how many stamps there are in the world in which you can collect.
Collectors collect stamps for many different reasons. They collect to see how many different stamps they can get hold of, or can collect from different countries and different meanings. Amongst these reasons are many more including the sheer enjoyment of collecting different stamp bundles and learning the history and growing your knowledge of each one. If you are a collector yourself and enjoy collecting GB stamps, well what a year to collect some magnificent collections from great Britain, with the 2012 Olympics there are some fantastic collections available in which you can keep forever and pass down to your children’s children and even further too!
If you search for GB stamps, you will find information and collections right back to the year 1840 and if your after a specific year in particular then you will find a collection which could have some meaning to you personally such as a special date, year, past time like royalty or fashion. Something that you may hold close in your heart, and now you can collect stamps around this and grow your knowledge of GB stamps at the same time.
Many people do think that stamp collecting just involves how many stamps you can collect, but once you start your collection you wont believe how much you will learn and what a thrilling hobby it can actually be. You will get a buzz from finding a particular stamp or collection you have been after for a while and then amazed at what history each collection holds.
But why GB stamps? Well why not? We have some amazing history in this country from many of the Queens events such as the coronation in 1953 and the jubilee this year, then the Olympics, the fashion industry we hold and the many sports we have plus many more things in which you could build your GB stamp collection round and tell your family about for generations to come.
