| Stamps collecting, especially the old postage stamps | | | | 4. Stamps Are Travel - Stamps show us traveling the |
| has great value. They are fun, affordable, history, | | | | globe as well as taking our first tentative steps into |
| travel, art, valuable, and important. Here is the | | | | outer space... exploring the frigid icefields of |
| explanation of their great value. | | | | Antarctica and the eerily beautiful landscapes of the |
| 1. Stamps Are Fun - Stamp collecting is fun because | | | | moon; celebrating the diversity of America from |
| it's personal - you collect the kinds of stamps you | | | | exotic Hawaii north to Alaska, with the variety of 48 |
| want, the way you want to collect them, whenever | | | | great states in between; discovering the Pacific |
| and wherever you want to. There's no right way or | | | | Ocean and blasting off aboard the space shuttle; |
| wrong way. | | | | flying across the Atlantic to Paris with Charles |
| 2. Stamps Are Affordable - Imagine owning a genuine | | | | Lindbergh and floating above the clouds in a |
| U.S. postage stamp that's over 130 years old for as | | | | lighter-than-air ship called the Graf Zeppelin. |
| little as $1.25! Even very old stamps can be very | | | | 5. Stamps Are Art - Having a stamp collection is like |
| affordable, especially in postally used condition. Used | | | | having a miniature art gallery right in your own home. |
| stamps have a real history and romance all their own. | | | | 6. Stamps Are Valuable - Some stamps are |
| 3. Stamps Are History - Every time you open your | | | | tremendously valuable. A stamp may be worth |
| album, stamps take you wherever you want to go in | | | | thousands of dollars because it has a tiny printing |
| our nation's past... the plains of the Old West, the | | | | error, or because only a few examples survive. |
| Space Race, the White House, the American | | | | 7. Stamps Are Important - Stamps are important |
| Revolution, the battlefields of the Civil War, and so | | | | because they enable us to communicate through |
| much more. Stamps chronicle 19th and 20th century | | | | letters. The issue of the world's first adhesive |
| America like nothing else. Stamps are souvenirs of | | | | postage stamp in England revolutionized the way mail |
| our past - history you can hold in your hands. | | | | was sent. |