U.S. Postage Stamp Collecting Kit Includes Free Stamps and Hinges

If you're just getting your feet wet with stamp collecting, this is a nice way to start, but be aware that it is a very small album. Not long after I bought it, I saw that I wanted something bigger and I spent more money to get a better album. The problem is that it can only hold so many images of stamps, so you find that there's a lot of stamps you can't find in it. But the price was good and the binder is nice. You also get some free stamps and some free hinges. So if you have a collector just starting out, they might like it. Myself, if I had known what I know now, I would have skipped buying this and just gone for the bigger album.

Great product

I love the book, it is set up nicely and all. I am disappointed that there are limited on how many stamps are in there in the front. I realize there are blank pages in the back for those extras. I am OCD about that so it bothers me that some are not listed. I love the pictures and information in the book. It is great for a younger person. Over all I do like the book.

I purchased this beginners kit for my granddaughter and she loves it. We have great fun together mounting the stamps in her album. The kit is produced and sold by Mystic Stamp Company and I have been a customer of theirs for years. They produce a high quality albums, supplies, and stamps and their service is outstanding. This starter kit has almost everything a beginner needs for the price. The only thing missing is an inexpensive magnifying glass. The album has clear illustrations of the stamps so it is easy to match the stamps to the illustrations. It also has a little history about each stamp or group of stamps on the left page. This makes collecting a great deal more fun when you can read about the history of the stamps and why they were created. I highly recommend this starter kit if you want to begin collecting stamps. I would encourage Mystic Stamp Company to include an inexpensive magnifying glass for beginners. All-in-all I say this is a great buy for the money.

This was the kit I needed to take my dad's stamps and put them in the right collection. It was a game-changer and I organized them in a way I couldn't have with other kits. I would like to buy the same kit for my son, to get him started and interested in stamp collecting. You get the book, hinges, and a set of stamps. Totally worth it!!

The album only includes more easy to obtain stamps which is exactly what I wanted. The USPS has over 4000 different issues. As a retired person on a fixed income this is perfect if you want to get back into collecting without spending a fortune. I also purchased a CD of album pages on Amazon making it easy to add pages for those issues that aren't included.

I inherited my mother’s stamp collection and needed an album to place them in. After placing my stamps in the album, I have continued to order more stamps to complete each page.

We got this starter kit for our son who is a Boy Scout that needed it for the stamp collecting merit badge. One of the requirements is to start a 100 stamp collection from one country. Well this kit has 100 stamps from the United States. We all had fun trying to find the pages where the stamps went it is like solving a puzzle. The pages are generally arranged by the years. There were only 10-15 stamps we just could not locate the page they went to but they have extra blank pages in the back. This kit was so fun that we are considering getting additional books.