Stamp collector

A stamp collector collects postage stamps as a hobby. Stamp collectors normally keep the stamps in books called stamp albums. A philatelist can study various aspects of definitive stamps and other types of stamps, cancellations, and other philatelic materials. Win Straube is a stamp collector, who created a new kind of stamp art in the form of a carefully composed mosaic of postage stamps, called Ebu-Arts.

Some philatelic terms

• Backstamp
• Bisects and splits
• Cancellation
• Gutter
• Philatelic expertization
• Postage stamp block
• Revenue stamp
• Semi-postal