Stamp collecting anyone?

[Zincubus]

Re: Stamp collecting anyone?

I understand your quandry. A few more suggestions...

Type in something like 'how to get your stamp collection valued' into Google. Quite a few links come up with advice on valuations and how to get them.

There may well be philatelic and coin clubs local to yourself. They may be able to offer advice.

Local auctioneers may be willing to give valuations. They usually work on a commission basis so I would imagine would not want to undervalue a collection.

From time to time local 'antiques roadshow' type events are held throughout the country offering the chance to get things valued.

Hope that helps

Thank you

I like the local auctioneers suggestion but I'll try everything you mentioned


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[staffslad]

Re: Stamp collecting anyone?

I understand your quandry. A few more suggestions...

Type in something like 'how to get your stamp collection valued' into Google. Quite a few links come up with advice on valuations and how to get them.

There may well be philatelic and coin clubs local to yourself. They may be able to offer advice.

Local auctioneers may be willing to give valuations. They usually work on a commission basis so I would imagine would not want to undervalue a collection.

From time to time local 'antiques roadshow' type events are held throughout the country offering the chance to get things valued.

Hope that helps

[Zincubus]

Re: Stamp collecting anyone?

Local libraries used to keep copies of Stanley Gibbons catalogues with stamp values. I don't know if they still do or if it has moved online now. There is also Ebay where you could get an idea of what particular stamps and coins are selling for.

Thank you !
I really wouldn't know where to start tbh ..

I really just need pointing in the right direction as to WHO or WHAT type of business I can BEST trust with the valuing and purchase of the whole caboodle.

A small time bloke or a bigger business or something ?

I have no idea who even buys or sells coins and stamps in the first place ..


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[staffslad]

Re: Stamp collecting anyone?

I've been left a fairly sizeable collection of coins and stamps ... including loads of first day covers and first day coins ...

I've no interest and need to raise some money ...

Anyone know what the safest : best way to get them sold without being completely ripped off ?
Thank you

Oops

Sorry to high jack the thread !!!

Any left over and I'll gladly post them to you for free !


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Local libraries used to keep copies of Stanley Gibbons catalogues with stamp values. I don't know if they still do or if it has moved online now. There is also Ebay where you could get an idea of what particular stamps and coins are selling for.

[Zincubus]

Re: Stamp collecting anyone?

I've been left a fairly sizeable collection of coins and stamps ... including loads of first day covers and first day coins ...

I've no interest and need to raise some money ...

Anyone know what the safest : best way to get them sold without being completely ripped off ?
Thank you

Oops

Sorry to high jack the thread !!!

Any left over and I'll gladly post them to you for free !


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[Danniella]

Re: Stamp collecting anyone?

With social occasions so rare at boarding school I took up stamp collecting quite young. I had several aunts and uncles who kindly gave me their rarest foreign stamps after returning from abroad. I kept my stamp album for at least five years before I grew out of it. Several years ago I was going thru some old junk in our loft and what should I find but my old school stamp album. My mother had kept it.

You should carry on with collection Donny, i could send you some stamps if you like.

[Donald the Great]

Re: Stamp collecting anyone?

With social occasions so rare at boarding school I took up stamp collecting quite young. I had several aunts and uncles who kindly gave me their rarest foreign stamps after returning from abroad. I kept my stamp album for at least five years before I grew out of it. Several years ago I was going thru some old junk in our loft and what should I find but my old school stamp album. My mother had kept it.

[Richard1978]

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It does seem to be that stamp dealers are mostly for serious collectors who can afford obscure rare old stamps rather than a collection of recent issues.

[zabadak]

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Back in the 00s, I took my first day cover collection to Stanley Gibbons on The Strand to sell - they said they weren't worth buying (despite a book value in double figures for some)!

[victorbrunswick]

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I remember those packets sold in hobby shops and toy shops. There were two different packets, one of US stamps and the other of foreign stamps. Of the latter the ones I remember vividly were the Spanish stamps with Franco on them and this Indian stamp as both were very common.

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[MalcolmAndSheldon]

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As a kid in the 1970s, there was a local newsagent which sold small packets of foreign stamps - and I was quite an avid customer. As nerdy as it sounds, it was actually quite an enthralling little hobby, in that it was akin to acquiring small cultural artefacts from faraway exotic places. I was always fond of Brazilian stamps, as they always seemed colourful, happy and usually featured sports - mostly football. And Brazil seemed like an eternity away.

You have to remember that to a kid back then, the world seemed a hell of a lot bigger (owing to distinct lack of internet) and any foreign country further than France seemed almost as enticingly mysterious as Shangri-La or El Dorado. I did go through another phase of stamp collecting as an adult, but...as you can imagine, it just wasn't the same.

[darren]

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[battyrat]

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Blue Peter's stamp appeals were pretty hot stuff in their day.

My primary school used to collect stamps for charity along side milk bottle tops.

The great thing these days is Royal mail has over the years released many great stamps featuring all sorts of nostalgic subjects from classic Dr Who, Fashion, comics, Roald Dahl, Children's TV, Beatles Albums, and many more. Even good old Sooty has appeared on a British stamp.The downside is that a full set of stamps from the Post Office is so expensive I need to take out a mortgage.

[staffslad]

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Wasn't it one of the children's TV programmes that had stamp appeals? Blue Peter or Magpie?

[Richard1978]

Re: Stamp collecting anyone?

I remember their were a few appeals for used stamps, which I guess went into those packs. I remember my parents collecting them up in the early 1990s.