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Hopefully this will help. Watermarks in stamps can be a ball ache
I inherited a decent stamp collection when I was 12 (still got it) and researched it a fair bit so I know a little. I'm glad you reminded me - there was a good few grand in value last time I checked and I forgot I had it!
Hopefully this will help. Watermarks in stamps can be a ball ache
I inherited a decent stamp collection when I was 12 (still got it) and researched it a fair bit so I know a little. I'm glad you reminded me - there was a good few grand in value last time I checked and I forgot I had it!
I know nothing about stamp collecting other than that we used to have an old boy here who had spent most of his life working and living in London and had had to give up his partnership in London at a very bad time financially due to ill health.
He recovered and was doing a few years with us to make sure that he had some sort of retirement pot. Bloody nice bloke and knew more about Land Law than most solicitors ever will.
He had a bit of a thing about stamp collecting and each month would buy a job lot off some e-bay auction or other. One day I walked into his office at lunchtime for a natter to see him sitting back chuckling to himself, a massive bag of stamps on one side of his desk, and one in front of him on a a piece of white paper.
Never did get the actual hammer price that he received at the auction but it cut a year off his working life and he and his lovely wife are now happily spending their last years in SA with their eldest daughter.
He recovered and was doing a few years with us to make sure that he had some sort of retirement pot. Bloody nice bloke and knew more about Land Law than most solicitors ever will.
He had a bit of a thing about stamp collecting and each month would buy a job lot off some e-bay auction or other. One day I walked into his office at lunchtime for a natter to see him sitting back chuckling to himself, a massive bag of stamps on one side of his desk, and one in front of him on a a piece of white paper.
Never did get the actual hammer price that he received at the auction but it cut a year off his working life and he and his lovely wife are now happily spending their last years in SA with their eldest daughter.
Heard of an old bloke who worked in the post room of a wool firm in Bradford. Most days of the week he got a parcel from Australia and he cut out the Five Shillings stamp of Australia, known as athe Sydney harbour bridge stamp. His colleagues thought he was a bit nuts, 'whats the point Joe, you have already got that one'?
He built up a collection of many hundred.
His grandson inherited the collection, each stamp is worth AUD1500. A very rare stamp in Australia because it was more than any parcel price within the country.
ooh time to have a look. we spent the 70's and 80's being posted massive parcels from my grandparents in Aus.
we've a suitcase of stamps- from Germany, Russia, Aus, England, Latvia. All the family (we're quite multicultural in my line) some 100 years ago and then for decades seemed to collect them.
goodness knows how you even value it or sell it.
I've a small suitcase/attache case of Nazi money too. I'm sure its worthless as of course they did produce a fair bit of it !!!
nice to look at every 5 years or so.
we've a suitcase of stamps- from Germany, Russia, Aus, England, Latvia. All the family (we're quite multicultural in my line) some 100 years ago and then for decades seemed to collect them.
goodness knows how you even value it or sell it.
I've a small suitcase/attache case of Nazi money too. I'm sure its worthless as of course they did produce a fair bit of it !!!
nice to look at every 5 years or so.
Pop by your local library, they will hopefully have a few stamp valuation books on their shelves.
Should give some indication of what might have any value, although you need to find the stamp in the book first!
Stanley Gibbons stamp catalogue seems to be a go to guidebook for UK stamps anyway.
Should give some indication of what might have any value, although you need to find the stamp in the book first!
Stanley Gibbons stamp catalogue seems to be a go to guidebook for UK stamps anyway.
Edited by AndrewEH1 on Thursday 9th February 16:16
AndrewEH1 said:
Pop by your local library, they will hopefully have a few stamp valuation books on their shelves.
Should give some indication of what might have any value, although you need to find the stamp in the book first!
The Stanley Gibbons reference guides tend to show some very large estimates, my experience is that you are fortunate to obtain even 10% of that estimate.Should give some indication of what might have any value, although you need to find the stamp in the book first!
There is an organisation called Warwick and Warwick, they will do valuations by email.
http://www.warwickandwarwick.com/valuations/stamp-...
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