This page contains links to websites that I consider interesting to stamp collectors.
Feel free to .

Sections:
Sites that help in identifying stamps
Fakes, forgeries, falsifications
Techniques (both production and collecting)
Machins
Personal pages and blogs
Swapping
Other

Date of last update: 24 mar 2008

Sites that help in identifying stamps

Note: None of the so called 'catalogs' is complete, but they contain valuable info nonetheless
All World Stamps Catalogue (Stanley Gibbons online catalogue)
FREESTAMPCATALOGUE.COM
List of country name etymologies (Wikipedia)
Overprints and Inscriptions on Stamps
Stamp Catalogue (Evert Klaseboer)
Stamps in Europe (Europeanstamps.net)
WADP Numbering System
Encyclopedia of enclaves and exclaves
Stefano and Casper's pages
Unidentified Philatelic Objects (Rick Scott)
Flags of the World
List of entities that have issued postage stamps
Kenmore stamp finder
ISWSC Worldwide Stamp Identifier
Lynn's Stamp issuing entities of the world

Fakes, forgeries, falsifications

AskPhil -- List of Lables Purporting to be Stamps (Salm No. 4)
Fakes, Counterfeits and Bogus Stamps
List of Lables Purporting to be Stamps
Stamp Collectors Against Dodgy Sellers (SCADS)
Page with some fakes

Techniques (both production and collecting)

How to automate mass scanning of stamps
Druktechnische Filatelie - Postage Stamp production methods

Machins

Deegam Machin Handbook
Machin definitive stamps
GBStamps.com - The Machin FAQ
Machin Colour List
Machin Stamp Collecting
Machinations Vol 1 Issue 4
Machins Collectors Club
Machins Great Britain (by Adminware Corporation)
My Machin Collection
Ron Jackson's MachinBase

Personal pages and blogs

akphilately (Adrian Keppel)
Collections Index - Jay T. Carrigan
Frajola Philatelist's Site - Home Page
Jan-Simon's stamppages
Shoebox Heindorffhus - Ephemera, Curiosa and Postal History (Ann Mette Heindorff)
Tony Vella's Stamp Pages
Welcome to Heindorffhus (Ann Mette Heindorff)
Belgie - Giacomo
Philately of today (Svend Waever's blog)

Swapping

AllStampsParadise stamp exchange
Stampswapclub.com
Topicals on Stamps -- Exchange Stamps with other Topical Stamp Collectors
Tambr - Persian Iranian Stamps - Swap Stamps with Collectors from all over the world

Other

Lexicons, encyclopedias, glossaries:
ABC van de filatelie
Alphabetilately Introduction
Stamp nicknames - names of famous stamps
Temporary picture upload:
Cjoint.com French
Some pages about ethics in coin collecting, applies to stamps as well:
Cherrypicking - What is a Coin Cherrypicking
Coin Dealer Ethics - Cherrypicking
Coin Dealer Ethics - Naive Sellers
Coin Dealer Ethics Follow-up Naive Sellers
On line translations:
Babelfish
Google translate
GramTrans
More:
American Philatelic Society -- Directories
AskPhil -- opening page
eBay Groups - Stamps
Exponet - virtual philatelic exhibition