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ail,ask your friends to let you have their old stamps,or you can buy used stamps.When you get a letter with a stamp on it,carefully cut out the stamp.Leave lots of room around the stamp so that you will not damage it.Put the stamp in water and wait until the water has dissolved the glue so that you can safely remove the stamp.Carefully lift the stamp off the paper and place it on a clean sheet of paper to dry.A stamp can get wrinkled and ugly when it dries,so place the wet stamp between two clean sheets of paper and put some books on top.You do not need much equipment to collect stamps,but it is necessary to have a pair of tweezers and a magnifying glass.The tweezers will help you to handle stamps and the magnifying glass help you see details and discover tiny faults.It is also important to have a good album to put the stamps in.For most collectors, the joy of collecting and learning about the items is the most important,but collections can bee worth a lot of money.A collection bees valuable if it is plete,that is, if it includes all the items in a series,or if it contains rare items.Stamps can also bee valuable if there is something wrong with them.A Swedish stamp, issued in 1855,was printed on yellow paper instead of the green paper that should have been used.As a result, a stamp that had only cost a few pennies became worth millions of dollars.