Kiloware

As kiloware stamps are referred to in philately, which are offered and sold by weight. Most of these brands still adhere to the paper of the envelopes or forms to their franking they were used.

Special appreciation is enjoying those kiloware, which is offered by the post itself - here is often to sections of postal forms on which brands are glued, which are otherwise rarely used. Also popular is the so-called " mission goods ", ie kilo goods, which was collected by non-profit institutions.

Thus, the opportunities for an interesting discovery are high, you should be the first stamp collector who searches the goods. Therefore kiloware in trading is often - more or less credible - offered as " unexamined ".

So-called " paper free kilo goods " consists of brands that have already been washed away by the paper on which they originally stuck. Mostly, these are the remnants of collectors discounts, so you rarely find the latest brands in them.

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