# SCK03 - Mystic's Advanced Stamp Collecting Kit

The Stamp Collecting Kit for You – the Advanced Collector!

     If you’re an advanced collector then this stamp collecting kit will be a good fit for your collecting status.  It contains even more of the items that will help you enjoy your stamps to their fullest. 

     The US stamps, illustrated album and nifty stamp tools in this kit 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 – These 100 stamps will make a satisfying addition to your collection. It’s an interesting mix of commemoratives, definitives, old stamps, new stamps, presidents, Old Glory, plus other Americana and historic stamp subjects.  (Even some “look-alike” stamps which as you know, 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. If you still need an album, I recommend an illustrated one 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 D-ring 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 up to several hundred stamps safe and organized
• Pages protect your stamps with archival-quality strips and glassine  interleaving  
• Big 9” x 12” size

1000 Stamp Hinges

• Quick and easy way to safely attach stamps in your album for a great display                       
• High-quality glassine paper, pre-folded to make placement easier
• Made with 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

Lighted Hands-Free Magnifier

• Well-built, sturdy, easy and fun to use
• Built-in ultra-bright light and 2x magnification lets you see your stamps up-close and personal
• Crystal-clear acrylic lens
• Adjustable neck cord
• Great 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

Tongs

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

Watermark Tray and Fluid

• Helps you identify look-alike stamps so you know what you have
• Safe for your stamps, their inks, adhesives, and tagging
• 3.4 ounces of solvent-free watermark fluid
• 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.

Linn’s Multi-Gauge Perforation Gauge – This large perforation gauge from the creators of Scott Catalogues is actually four handy tools in one:

• Crystal-clear perforation gauge can be used on single stamps and easily measures those on cover, in sheets, or affixed to album pages.
• Cancellation gauge lets you measure various postal markings
• Zero-Center ruler helps you create your own special album pages
• Millimeter ruler completes the quartet of useful tools
• Comes with instructions on how to use each function
• Takes care of all your hobby-related measuring needs
• Slides easily in and out of its own convenient holder

#3 Glassine Envelopes

• Perfect place to safely and neatly store your duplicates
• Lets you organize your stamps by categories or countries while they await their move to your album
• Translucent so you can see what’s inside without opening
• No harmful chemicals to harm your stamps
• 2½” high x 4¼” wide

Mystic’s Guide to Stamp Collecting – Even as an advanced collector, you’ll find this little booklet a handy addition to your collecting toolbox.  Compact size to carry with you and just packed with useful collector’s information:

• Ways to add more stamps to your collection              
• Glossary of stamp terms
• Guide to identifying your stamps
• Refresher on soaking, hinging and mounting 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…

     Knowledgeable collectors around the world use these handy tools to discover more about their stamps.  And to enjoy them even more.  Wouldn’t it be great to have all of them at your fingertips, helping you get the most out of your collection?  Order your Advanced Stamp Collecting Kit today and enjoy all the benefits of the tools of our hobby – stamp collecting – the world’s greatest hobby!