The most important thing, which a stamp collector should aware of.
Choice of the workshop for stamp collecting. For the choice of your chosen area, I can give you no advice. When you select an area, it is important that you feel comfortable and you also feel at home with the type of collection.
It is important that you choose a collection, that excites you, the topic really interests you, and you don’t want to go off in search of something really new.
Additional reasons for the choice of a certain collection can be:
To broaden existing collections, your knowlege of the field as well as favorable acquisition possibilities.
A possible increase in value should not be the principal purpose of a collection, however under certain conditions this can become a great boost to anyones collection. This is as much expertise and experience as well as luck, the beginner should restrain themselves here.
For a complete collection of countries stamps, include the traditional mainstream and special stamps, various stamping and letters hand marked or franked. Particularly with country collections you should decide whether to go for post office, hand stamped or machine franked marks.
Franked stamps have the advantage that they are usually cheaper, often also from the collecting letters aspect, the collection of letters itself holds more meaning than loosely marked stamps. There are complete, received letters, maps and other fun pieces of post office stationery.
For this reason you should never cut the stamps from older letters, without first researching their rarity. Younger collectors should be able to get great pleasure from peeking into a bygone era from the old mail.
Into the catalogue.
Arrange your collection chronologically by release dates, complete with descriptions, theme your pages. I would not advise anyone to have an uncirculated and a used collection of stamps, this would spiral the costs involved and also result in many duplicates. You could start off with loose letters and advance on to starting your own stamp book.