Astamp collecting guide to help you feel like a professional stamp collector.Stamp Collecting may start on a simple gift of stamps given to another person. This can give him the interest in becoming a stamp collector. He could also start collecting by considering it as a hobby. It is considered as one of the most popular hobbies that still exist in this modern time. Since earlier periods, stamp collecting has been popular among royalties in Western Europe. There was a time when all kinds of people became interested in stamp collecting and treated it as their personal hobby as well.Nevertheless, the most common stamp collectors collected are those with people, places, and events in the stamps, which may represent some valuable information regarding the history of a certain country or group.For beginners, here are some tips on how to collect stamps:1. A person can be a generalist and start collecting a variety of stamps that may feature everything. In this way, he may have an idea on what type of stamps he may specialize in collecting. He may place all his collection in an album and categorize each stamp according to topics or themes he has chosen.2. If he loves to travel in different places, he may start collecting stamps from those places he may have visited. There are particular areas and locations that offer stamps that feature the history of the place and significant persons that may have lived in the place.