Chapter 1
A BIT OF HISTORY
- Mail and mail delivery
- The stamp, a good idea!
- Quick imitation
- What is a stamp?
- Postal services
- International postal services
- Philatelic organizations
- Youth philately in the Netherlands
- Summing up
Chapter 2
STAMPS IN THE NETHERLANDS
- Kinds of stamps
- Postage-stamps
-- Permanent stamps
-- Special stamps
-- Semi-permanent stamps
-- Special stamps with extra charge
-- Special stamps with an international character
- Postage Due stamps
- Stamps for special purposes
-- Airmail stamps
-- Official mail
-- Welfare-law stamps
-- International Court of Justice
-- Telegram-stamps
-- Postal script stamps
-- Internment-stamps
-- Floating safe-stamps
-- Parcel post calculation stamps
- Stamps not sanctioned by the postal service
-- Railway stamps
-- Tax stamps
- Special designs
-- December stamps
-- Leaflets
-- Coil stamps
-- Stamp booklets
-- Machine strips
- Summing up
Chapter 3
STAMPS IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES
- Postage stamps
-- Permanent stamps
-- Special stamps
-- Special stamps with extra charge
-- Special stamps with an international character
- Postage Due-stamps
- Remaining stamps
-- Airmail stamps
-- Service stamps
-- Freedom of postage for soldiers
-- Telegraph stamps
-- Express stamps
-- Return-stamps
-- Railway stamps
-- Tax stamps
- Special designs
-- Coil stamps
-- Stamps from stamp booklets
-- Tabs
- Summing-up
Chapter 4
POSTAL ITEMS AND POSTAL STATIONERY
- Postal items
-- Pre-philatelic items
-- Stamped postal items
- First day covers
-- First flights
-- Special postmarks and cancellation flags
- Valued postal stationery
-- Postal sheets
-- Air postal sheets
-- Post cards
-- Change of address cards
-- International reply coupons
- Official items
- Military mail
- Summing up
Chapter 5
ACCESSORIES
- Your tools
-- Tweezers
-- Magnifying glass
-- Perforation gauge
- All kinds of paper
-- Albums and catalogues
-- Hinges
-- Mounts
-- Stockbooks
-- Stamp circulation booklets
-- Cellophane bags
- Special accessories
-- Watermark detector
-- UV-lamp
- Summing up
Chapter 6
THE STAMP ALBUM
- Systems
-- The ring-system
-- The screw-bolt system
-- The clamp-system
-- The organizer
-- Sizes
- Kinds of albums
-- The pre-printed album
-- The blank album
- Kinds of pre-printed albums
-- The world album
-- The country album
-- The thematic album
-- Special makes
- The blank album
- How to maintain albums
- Summing up
Chapter 7
THE STAMP CATALOGUE
- How it developed
- The Netherlands and its Overseas Areas: the Dutch "Special Catalogue"
- World catalogues
-- The Yvert
-- The Stanley Gibbons
-- The Michel
-- Other world catalogues
- Special catalogues
- Summing up
Chapter 8
HOW TO GET STAMPS
- Free
-- From postal items
-- From collectors
-- By exchanging
-- From friends everywhere
-- By joining a stamp association
- Buying stamps
-- The post office
-- The Philatelic Service
-- Stamp store
-- Stamp circulation booklets
-- Stamp market
-- Stamp exchanges
-- Stamp auctions
-- Stamps corner
-- Book stores and cigar shops
-- Packages
- Some tips
-- Pre-pay philatelic
-- The cheapest stamps?
-- Blocks
- Summing up
Chapter 9
SOAKING THE STAMPS
- Before the soaking
-- Kinds of paper
-- Cancellation prints
-- Colours that will come off
-- Ink that will come off
- Soaking the stamps
-- Soaking
-- Washing
-- Special kinds of gum
-- Phosphor and fluorine
-- Colours that come off
-- Blocks, strips and stamp booklets
- Drying the stamps
- Summing up
Chapter 10
DAMAGES AND DEFECTS OF STAMPS
- Damages
-- Holes and thin spots
-- Missing or short perforations
-- Folds, bruises, damages of the image
-- Repairs
- Defects
-- Discolouring, fading, dirt, stains
-- Rust
-- Badly centred stamps
-- Heavy cancellation prints
-- Pen strokes
-- Perforations through the stamp image
-- "Bois-le-Duc" perforation
-- Machine and coil stamps
- Some extra tips
- Summing up
Chapter 11
ARRANGING THE STAMPS
- The collection by country, or "country-collection"
-- In alphabetic order
-- In geographic order
-- What now?
- The thematic collection
- Summing up
Chapter 12
KEEPING THE STAMPS
- Sorting
- Storing
- The stockbook
-- Choosing a stockbook
- The stock
- Summing up
Chapter 13
PREPARING AN ALBUM PAGE
- A balanced page
- Instructions
- Text
- Summing up
Chapter 14
COMPOSING AN ALBUM PAGE
- The page
- The "help" sheet
- The illuminated box
- Technical execution
- Summing up
Chapter 15
MAKING A TITLE-PAGE AND AN INTRODUCTION-PAGE
- The title-page
- The introduction-page
- TITLE
- INTRODUCTION
- PLAN
- SOURCE
- Summing up
Chapter 16
WRITING AND DRAWING
- Handwriting
- Accessories
-- Ball-point pen
-- Fountain-pen
-- Fine point pen
-- Roller pen
-- Pipe pen
-- Drawing -pen
-- Stencils
-- Trace letters
- Machine-writing
-- Typewriter
-- Computer
- Drawing
-- Ink or pencil
-- Colour
-- Drawing board
-- Again: the computer
- Summing up
Chapter 17
MOUNTING THE STAMPS
- How to use the stamp hinge
-- What we certainly do not ......
- The use of photo-holders
- Summing up
Chapter 18
HARMFUL, NOT AUTHORIZED AND UNWANTED ISSUES.
- The F.I.P.
- Harmful emissions
- Unlawful emissions
- Unwanted emissions
- Countries that do not exist
- What to do and what not to do
- Summing up