Stamp collector sins

I guess we are all guilty of at least one of these sins

1. Just because a stamp looks old it is valuable
2. Just because it is a two-margin Penny Black it must be valuable
3. Grandad's collection must be valuable, he was so old
4. We bought those pretty cancelled to order stamps as a kid
5. We put a stamp hinge on a mint stamp instead of using plastic mounts
6. Even worse we lick the mint stamp and stick it into our album
7. We cut a wing-margin or reperf a wing-margin to make it look nice.
8. We cut to shape an embossed issue.
9. We use our fingers to handle a stamp instead of tweezers
10. We use boiling water to soak our stamps off the paper
11. We remove the stamp from that very old letter or postcard
12. We split up a block of stamps
13. We over-value our superb collection
14. We believe those silly Stanley Gibbons catalogue values
15. When we buy a stamp from a dealer we forget to look at the back of the stamp.
16. We immerse fugitive stamps in water
17. We leave our album open only to find the cat sleeping on it or worse

I confess that I am guilty of four of these sins, maybe more!

Want to confess your own sin?
email: Ross Taylor