The story of a king's stamp collection

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King George V of Great Britain and his son, King George VI, built a stamp collection that has an estimated worth of $2.8 million. A new book, 'The Royal Philatelic Collection,' pictures the stamps in the collection and details the story of the collection.

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Stamp enemies

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Postage stamp collections require proper storage to preserve them. The use of silica gel to remove moisture, use of envelopes for storage and the use of proper mounting and handling methods are some of the techniques presented to preserve stamps.

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Album accesories

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Stamp albums come in bound or loose-leaf varieties, and may contain plain or printed pages. Most album producers allow collectors to update their albums with supplementary pages, and blank pages are also marketed in several different formats.

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