The hobby of stamp collecting has insane number of values and advantages

Information available through Stamps

Although only the face value is seen immediately upon issue, the value of a stamp slowly starts to increase over time. As rarity increases, so does the demand for a stamp and thus its value.

When looking for a country, its geographical location, the region the country belongs to. It may be aware of information such as membership organizations. For example, the stamp issued by Sri Lanka, a country in the SAARC region, for the SAARC Summit indicates that Sri Lanka is a member country. Locality, social, cultural values, religious festivals, celebrations etc. as well as birds, insects, fish, quadrupeds and natural beauty such as waterfalls, rivers, lakes and ponds can be known.

Also, many other subjects including history, geography, biology etc. can be acquired through stamps. In short, you can get a better stamp collection than a library.

The mental healing that comes from a stamp collection is immense. Since then, the American president. Franklin Roosevelt said, "When I was sick, my stamp books helped me better than medicine."

Economic value of stamps

The economic value of a stamp increases as the stamp ages. Furthermore, errors in stamp printing also increase the value of a stamp.

Some of these errors can be mentioned as

     ●An error in a description given on the stamp

     ●The price of the stamp is wrongly mentioned

In addition, the rarity of the stamp printed due to the reduction in size. For example, the Vesak stamp printed in 1950 is a very rare stamp today.

Rare stamps always bring more economic benefits.