Stamp Collector (philatelist) is a postage stamp collecting assistant skill for Echo devices, with access to over 650,000 stamps from colnect.com.

Ask stamp collector to provide some help while working on your collection.

User: Alexa, ask Stamp Collector what country has the letters M A G Y A R on their stamps?
Alexa: According to the ISWSC World Wide Stamp Identifier, possible matches are: Hungary.

User: Alexa, ask Stamp Collector to find stamp name Virginia with face value twenty five from United States? Alex: The USA 25 ¢ Virginia Ratification Date tamp was issued in 1988...

User: Alexa, ask Stamp Collector to define letterpress?
Alexa: According to linns.com, letterpress is printing done directly from the inked, raised surface of the printing plate.

This skill is not sponsored or endorsed by any stamp organization or company.

• Colnect.com access
• Find stamps by name {topic}, face value, and country to get information including: date issued and print_run.
• Creates Alexa app cards to show complete info.

• Stamp terms
• Stamp identification by letters on the stamp.

• Display image of stamp on Alexa Cards (waiting on Colnect to use secure hhttps)
• What is the latest stamp news?
• Give me a random stamp term.
• Tell me about the postal history of {country}.
• What happened today in stamp history?
• More Colnect.com commands:
  • Get series of current stamp found
  • Get variants of current stamp found
  • Does colnect user {username} have any stamp from {Country} listed in his colnect collection.
  • Which countries does colnect user {usernme} not have a stamp listed in his colnect collection. (As you might have guessed, I'm working on collecting at least one stamp from every country ;) )
  • How many stamps does colnect user {usernme} have in their colnect collection.
  • What postage stamp were issued by the {Country} in {year}?

If you have requests or like to become a beta tester for new features, see my contact info at https://github.com/jpecore . You can also submit issues you are having at https://github.com/jpecore/AlexaStampSkill/issues .

• Icon: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stamp_Collecting_8c_1972_issue_U.S._stamp.jpg
• http:https://colnect.com/en/stamps
• ISWSC World Wide Stamp Identifier http:https://www.iswsc.org/iswsc_identifier.html
• https://github.com/jpecore/AlexaStampSkill
• http:https://www.linns.com/insights/glossary-of-philatelic-terms.html.html
• https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/World_Stamp_Catalogue/United_States
• https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/World_Stamp_Catalogue/Stamp_Identifier
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Stamps+of+the+United+States
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Postal_history_of_the_Americas
• https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/World_Stamp_Catalogue
• https://arago.si.edu/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Philately