# SCK01 - Mystic's Beginner Stamp Collecting Kit

If you’re a beginning collector, this U.S. stamp collecting kit was made for you! 

     It’s true!  This neat kit contains everything you need to get started on your new stamp-collecting adventure. 

     The US stamps, illustrated album and nifty stamp tools will make your collecting time even more fun and exciting.  Below are all the items in the kit along with their descriptions so you’ll know just what you’re getting:  

100 U.S. Stamps give your hobby a hefty start.  This collection is a lively mix of commemoratives, definitives, old stamps, new stamps, presidents, Old Glory, plus other Americana and historic stamp subjects.  (Even some “look-alike” stamps which are actually different varieties.)  Two of my favorites in this collection are the $1.00 Candleholder stamp and the 1941 Win the War stamp with eagle’s wings spread in the “V” shape for Victory.

Historic Stamps of the United States Stamp Album – Every collection needs a good place to live. I recommend an illustrated album because it’s a great place to organize and protect your stamps, admire your collection and show off what you have!  It also helps you to identify your stamps and think about what you’d like to add to your collection.  Here are some of the album’s neat features:

• High-quality binder plus 331 pages printed on acid-free paper
• Made in America
• Keeps your stamps safe, organized, beautifully displayed and fun to look at
• Rich deep-blue, gold-embossed binder looks great on your shelf
• Big 11 x 11½ three-ring D format binder lies flat for easy viewing, adding stamps and pages, showing your collection to family and friends
• All 100 stamps included with the kit illustrated in the album
• Over 1400 stamps illustrated, issued from 1852 to 2020
• Created by collectors at Mystic

Lighthouse Stock Book

• Secure place to keep duplicates and special stamp-related items
• Great-looking addition to your stamp shelf – next to your album and books 
• 9 rows of glassine material on 16 black cardstock pages
• Keeps several hundred stamps safe and organized
• Archival-quality pages protect your stamps with glassine interleaving  
• Big 9” x 12” size

1000 Stamp Hinges

• Let you safely attach your stamps to album pages for a great display
• High-quality glassine paper, pre-folded to make placement easier
• Acid-free gum
• Lets you look at the back of your stamps
• Easily removed if lightly moistened and allowed to dry completely
• Included Mystic’s Guide to Stamp Collecting shows how to affix hinges

2-In-1 Magnifier

• Gives you both 3x power and a 6x power spot magnification.
• Best way to appreciate fine details in stamp designs
• Perfect for finding secret marks on stamps, plus reading tiny names and dates
• Helps you detect differences between “look-alike” stamps
• Convenient pocket size for carrying to stamp club meetings

Tongs

• Safest way to handle your stamps
• Protects from dirt, fingerprints and oils that can harm your stamps
• Helps prevent damage to stamp perforations
• Highly polished steel finish
• Produced by German manufacturer Solingen, the makers of fine precision instruments

Watermark Tray and Fluid

• Helps you identify look-alike stamps so you know what you have 
• Safe fluid for your stamps, their ink, adhesive, and florescent tagging 
• Contains no CFCs or HCFCs (chemicals that can harm Earth’s atmosphere) 
• Just the right size tray to hold in your hand at different angles to examine your    stamps – black background helps watermarks show up.  

Perforation Gauge

• Another easy-to-use aide to identifying your stamps  
• Lets you discover perforation differences in stamps that look exactly the same,  but are actually different stamps
• Measures stamps from perf. 7 to perf. 16, including half-perforations
• Two convenient scales – one in the center for gauging loose stamps, the other around the edges for gauging stamps already mounted in your album
• Neat black and silver metal gauge made in Canada
• Comes with complimentary Mystic white cardstock gauge printed with easy-to-follow instructions

Mystic’s Guide to Stamp Collecting – This little booklet is worth its weight in gold if you’ve just entered the exciting world of stamp collecting.  Compact size to carry with you and just packed with useful collector’s information:

• How to start and grow your collection
• Glossary of stamp terms
• Guide to identifying your stamps
• Information on how to soak, how to hinge and mount your stamps and how to work with self-adhesive stamps 
• Foreign stamp identifier
• Stories behind some of the world’s most famous stamps
• And lots more!

     Stamps, album, stock book, plus a collecting guide and all the tools knowledgeable collectors use to care for their stamps…  Wouldn’t it be great to have them all at your fingertips, helping you build an awesome collection? 

     Take advantage of this offer and order your beginner’s stamp collecting kit today!  You’ll be really glad you did…