Stamps - Advanced
Overview
This honor takes stamp collecting from a hobby to serious philately! Youth build on their basic stamp knowledge while learning specialized collecting terms, researching stamps with catalogs, and creating a professional-quality exhibition. This honor is for Pathfinders ready to become serious stamp collectors and exhibitors. You’ll expand your collection by hundreds of stamps, learn professional philatelic terminology, master stamp catalogs, and create a polished 16-page exhibition that demonstrates research, organization, creativity, and attention to detail.
Requirements
1. Have the Stamps honor.
2. Know the meaning of the following:
- a. Cancellation
- b. Perfins
- c. Blocks
- d. Plate blocks
- e. Precanceled
- f. First day covers
- g. Cachets
- h. Souvenir sheets
- i. Watermarks
- j. Tongs
3. Make a display of at least 16 pages suitable for a stamp club show, Pathfinder Fair, or Junior Youth Philatelic Stamp Show. Display should be artistically arranged, neatly labeled and mounted, showing careful thought and research. Cachets and covers should be used as well.
4. Make a collection of 750 additional stamps with at least 50 stamps from each of five foreign countries.
5. Name two different catalogs for identifying stamps.
6. Using a stamp catalog, identify and mount according to catalog number and country.
7. Mount your stamps with gummed hinges or plastic mounts. (Plastic mounts are preferred for mint stamps.)
Answer key & resources
Master awards
This honor counts toward:
Investiture Achievement
This honor is required, suggested or listed as an option in:
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