Bait-Tov is
not just a store name, it’s far more.
We exist since 1995, the goal we put on
our minds is to bring the youth as close as possible to this educating topic.
We know that this task isn’t easy, since
it’s natural that there is a separation from stamp collecting as the world
“becomes smaller”
in the media aspect and the fact that one can embrace
every corner of the world, distant, as is it, making the experience less
thrilling than before. However, what about the historical
aspect?
When the first stamp first saw light
back in 1840, the world was dominated by 6 colonial powers: British,
Portuguese, Spanish,
Dutch, French and
Belgian.
Isn’t this enough exciting to start
stirring the past with our fingers and looking in geographical and historical
atlases?
Nowadays, young stamp collectors collect
stamps according to themes, which is a new approach to stamp collecting.
Furthermore, as the days pass you can
find more and more Thematic catalogues e.g. Disney, Cats, Dogs, Flowers, Autos
etc.
The two methods of collecting (by theme
and by country) can both be very fascinating and educating.
Choosing themes to collect by is a
matter of personal taste, while in choosing countries to collect we recommend
the British
colonies (and
stamp collecting came from
and lifestyles in the different colonies.
Needless to say, as most beginners do,
we must collect our own stamps.
If you’re interested in automatic
Israeli stamps, you should visit Klussendorf who covers this topic completely.
Going on, next on our stamp collecting
order recommendations are the countries of the former Western Europe, United
States, the
rest of the colonies such as: Portuguese colonies, French
colonies, Dutch colonies, Spanish colonies and Belgian colonies and
then, the rest of the countries. In the
colonies.
You can collect used or mint stamps. We
will always recommend on the used stamps, although usually less valuable,
because the
sole reason that stamp collecting is about the constant
search to complete sets from stamps that had already done their “job” and
brought their consignment to their destinations. When you
buy a new stamp set in the post office, its collecting purposes are done.
Furthermore, there’s always the concern of
stamp preservation, especially in humid places. Used stamps can be washed
without
causing damage by doing the following – buy denture-cleaning
tablets in a pharmacy (for example: Kukident). Put a
quarter tablet in
small water filled bowl. Wait until the tablet dissolves
and leaves a blue thick solution. Place the stamps one at a time and wait for
15 minutes. Pick up the stamps and wash
them a few times, then dry the stamps (when facing down on a paper towel).
Collecting and broadening your
collection is possible by exchanging with other collectors. You can sign up at
a Danish site called
trade and
insert your stamps so that others might see what you offer. It is occasionally
acceptable to buy a package as a present.
Our store is only virtual,
however, you can meet us occasionally on stamp exhibitions. If you’re
interested in seeing us from several
exhibitions, click here for photos.
We would like to thank all of those who
come and meet us and create the celebration, which is also our living.
Furthermore, we can
add that each of us has he/she’s own job and stamp
Collecting is only a secondary job. This is also a part of what makes this
business so special and unique.
We emphasize on a stamp variety no store
can complete with.
You
can get Israeli stamps based on yearly calendars, exceptional issues, singles
and FDC’s.
All Palestinian Authority stamps.
You
can get international stamp packets, from nearly all countries, each country
separately.
You
can get international stamps according to groups, such as: continents, empires,
colonies, periods and more.
You
can get mixed international stamps (up to 50,000 different stamps).
You
can get a packet, which contains one representative stamp from each country.
(For example: from 200 countries).
You
can get all Disney stamps in complete sets and sheets.
Full
Mint Topicals sets.
‘Cool
stamps’ for pleasure not as investment.
You
can get stamps according to all popular subjects as well as intentionally
bizarre subjects (for beginners’ interest),
such as:
Stamps in shapes of rounds, triangles, diagonals, huge,
imperforated, bizarre shapes etc.
Stamps, which are imprinted on gold and silver foils.
3D stamps.
Singers and movie actor stamps.
We are the only online stamp store in
(from a secure
server). This fact increases the number of beginner Collectors, since a child
who will first lay his eyes on the store,
will surely call out his parents and ask for them, which
might lead to (a small, but existent chance) them buying him the stamps he
wanted as a holiday or birthday present.
The merchandise isn’t unavailable to
view, since the packets method can’t allow that, although, we do have an
obligation to our
customers that the same stamp amount exists, all the stamps
are different and in good condition. In case you intend on continue
collecting stamps, it’s always recommended to buy the biggest
packet in a specific Theme or Country and not a large number of
packets in small amounts to avoid spending more money in the
future. Next are recommendations for use of different accessories
which, of course, can be bought in stores, however, we can
offer them to you in competitive prices and shipment to your house
without any fees (valid only in
Stamp collecting dictates the use of
these basic accessories:
Albums – stamp albums exist from
different brands. We recommend those, which have black backgrounds and
transparent stripes.
One of the
best brands is a Dutch company called Importa who has
the largest albums (10 stripes instead of a usual 9) –
See Product. Their size is standard with A
varying width: 8 pages – fit to 1000 stamps, 16 – fit to 2000 stamps, 24 – fit
to
3000 and 32 – fit to 4000 stamps. Beginners are recommended to use 8 to 16 Page albums experts are
recommended to
use 32 page albums. The
prices of 32 page albums are around 110-155
Countries
collectors recommend using Flags stickers See Product and
Coats of Arms See
Product.
Tweezers – It is best to handle stamps
with tweezers rather your hands, especially mint stamps. They are also a lot
more
comfortable one you get
used to it. There are many shapes to these tweezers,
however, most have a broad oval end to
them. Their prices are
around 10-15
Magnifying Glass – Even those who see
6/6 might need a magnifying glass. The recommend glass is one, which has
2 magnification resolutions.
The higher magnification Lens (which appear as a smaller circle inside the
large lens) enables
you to see the year, which
is usually written, in the lower part of the stamp we have one type – See Product (8).
Catalogues – Since most of us collect
our own stamps, the only Hebrew catalogue, which includes stamp value, is “Carmel”. The
Catalogue shows
all the stamps in color and its price is usually 140
is 2008.
You can
purchase an official catalogue of Israeli stamps in every post office. This
catalogue is the source of reference for all
other catalogues, being an
official catalogue; it doesn’t contain any market prices.
There is a
new site of the Israel Philatelic Federation where you can find a detailed
Israeli stamp catalogue and also
includes market prices and
other useful Information See it
here.
If you are a
more serious collector and you collect all the countries but not professionally
(meaning you pay no attention to
little differences such as
watermarks, perforation, paper types, etc…) we recommend the English catalogue
Stanley Gibbons which has 5 volumes of the entire world stamps in colors
as of 2009 View
Product.
Literature – Everyone who is interested
in stamp collecting must have some kind of literature, which is the foundation
to
understanding the subject
and the terminology. Fortunately in 2008 a book was issued in Hebrew
Encyclopedic
Dictionary of Philatelic and Postal terms.
We can recommend an English book See Product which
was written
by the American Philatelic
Society. On the Internet, there is a nice site for children called BNAPS, which is good for beginners.
The history
of postal services, the geographical, the social and national of every being
who ever made stamps can be seen
in the “World Stamps
Atlas” Which was translated and published by “Carta”.
Unfortunately the atlas is out of stock, but
something very similar can
found at the website Sandafayre.
Another book
that you should have in hand is about identifying stamps. There are many simple
stamps that, without initial
knowledge cannot be
identified. The book we recommend See Product
contains in the first half an index of all the
inscriptions that might
appear and theirs belong. In the second half of the book there are pictures of
stamps that don’t
contain any writings or
writings in an unfamiliar language. The book is in English, although the
language is irrelevant.
On the
Internet they are few sites who has identify list but no one has search engine
like we do Identifier,
to compare, look
for example a site by C. Cavers.
For advanced stamp collecting you would
require more accessories:
Perforation Gauge – Stamps differ also
in Perforation. The catalog zed is done in 2 digits. The first digit represents
the number of
punctures (teeth) in the
upper and lower that fit in 2 centimeters, while the second digit represents
the same as the first
one, only about the sides
of the stamp. The Perforation Gauge looks like a ruler, made Out of cardboard
or plastic and
contains many notches to
measure the Perforation.
Watermark Detector – Stamps also differ in
watermarks. In the first few decades of stamp history a paper with a watermark
was
used by most countries to
detect forgeries. There are examples that one stamp can allegedly be worth
thousands of times
more than that same stamp,
when the only things that is different is their watermark. The catalogues show
these
watermarks. In order to
see them, there are a lot of means available in the market today, some are
electronic which are
very expensive (around 800
Watermark
Detector which we and the American Philatelic Society recommend (See Recommendation by APS) is
called
Roll-A-Tector from the brand “Morley-Bright” (See Product). The thing that makes this product stand out from the
rest is the
fact that it doesn’t
require the use of chemicals and batteries and that it can show watermarks on
stamps that are still
attached to the envelope.
It also saves the mark and shows it on the right and left side until it’s
needed to be deleted for the
next use.
Catalogues – Here, everyone is used to
his catalogue, there’s no doubt that the German catalogue “Michel” is the most
popular
since it has all the
pictures in it. It is split into many volumes and is very expensive. If you’re
interested in low spendthrift
and still get the entire
world, the 6 volumes American “Scott” catalogue is the best Solution for you.
It is updated as of
today to the year 2009. in colors See Product.
Hawids – Stripes made out of polystyrene, which help keep
the stamp from environmental damages. It is most important to use
them for mint stamps and
sheets, or when collecting the stamps on pages. If you use them frequently,
invest a little more
and use a guillotine
instead of scissors. The stripes are supplied in 30 gr. Per
bag. Their length is fixed (21 or 26.5cm.).
They can be
ordered in varying heights, from 21mm. to 150mm. For sheets there are Stripes wider in various
sizes.
Hinges – In the past there were no
albums with transparent stripes like today, or everyone would make his own
album. There were
also paged albums to stick
stamps On in designated positions. This system is also appropriate today for
“heavy” collectors
and you can, for a small
sum of money, purchase a disk for printing almost all the countries at your own
home. You can
find it at Album Pages. If you want this, you would
require hinges. Each bag contains 1000 hinges.
We ship the merchandise in registered
mail, impressively stamped a day after the order was made (if unavailable we
are notifying
immediately). In any case, we bill the account on the Day we
ship the merchandise. We don’t have ANY disappointed customers;
the service is kind and reliable all the way.
Our site also offers links to a few
dozens of the most important sites in the stamp-collecting scene (and everything
that might be
relevant as well) with which, you can reach the entire stamp
Sites on the Internet.
For the sake of advancing stamp
collecting in
“Organizer”. The organizer enables every collector to Run and
manage his or her own private stamp collection with an option to print
it. Furthermore, it recommends on a collecting order
(by countries), it also gives the user the ability to Identify stamps and more.
You must read all Instructions to get the most
efficiency from its power.
On April 2002 the first version of the
site was finished, which includes updated data up to end of 1999.
On July 2002 the second version was
finished, which includes online store and bilingual site.
We plan during the first half of 2009 to
open our Museum for Visitors and we promised would be most attractive.
If you have any comments,
recommendations or any other interesting remarks, (also grammatical and a whole
kind of mistakes)
write to us at info@bait-tov.com.
