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On May 16, 4:25*pm, "Charles Mueller" wrote:
Hello. I have inherited a stamp collection and have some novice questions.. Dont know if this would be considered the proper forum for such. Would appreciate an email from someone willing to "mentor" me a bit. Thanks. Chuck Mueller, Hi Charles: Welcome to the world of stamps. The following online links, which I recommend, may shed some light on your question. I Inherited a Stamp Collection... by Leonard Piszkiewicz http://www.usstamps.org/inherit.html American Philatelic Society (APS) Question & Answer page http://www.stamps.org/directories/dir_qna.htm APS' Estate Advice http://www.stamps.org/Services/ser_EstateAdvice.htm Lloyd de Vries and the Virtual Stamp Club reference page http://www.virtualstampclub.com/inherit.html The eBay Chat Board "Have a Stamp Collection" page http://pages.ebay.com/community/libr...amps-have.html Good Luck in your information search. Please remember that one option is to think about continuing the collection yourself or passing it down to children or grandchildren as a "family heirloom" from grandpa (even if NOT worth a world cruise). Stamp collecting is primarily about learning things from stamps and having fun. You can't put a price on that. Best wishes to you. Blair Ottawa, Canada |
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"Charles Mueller" wrote in message
... Hello. I have inherited a stamp collection and have some novice questions. Dont know if this would be considered the proper forum for such. Would appreciate an email from someone willing to "mentor" me a bit. Thanks. Chuck Mueller, Welcome on board, Chuck! Rodney and Blair already commented on the basic questions. Just to mention that the very idea of this newsgroup is to make postal stamps related information available to all its readers. Usually, one will learn on this ng more then s/he expects :-) -- Victor Manta ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Philatelic Webmasters Organization: http://pwmo.org/ Art on Stamps: http://artonstamps.org/ Romania by Stamps: http://marci-postale.com/ Communism on Stamps: http://reds-on.postalstamps.biz/ Spanish North Africa: http://www.sna-on.postalstamps.biz/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Since you have inherited the collection, you may find this web site useful:
http://www.inheritedstampcollection.com/. Some of the information is a bit dated and I disagree with the author on a few minor points, but overall I rate it as a very useful resource. Jay Carrigan See web sote for email address www.jaypex.com In article , says... Hello. I have inherited a stamp collection and have some novice questions. Dont know if this would be considered the proper forum for such. Would appreciate an email from someone willing to "mentor" me a bit. Thanks. Chuck Mueller, |
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On May 16, 1:25*pm, "Charles Mueller" wrote:
Hello. I have inherited a stamp collection and have some novice questions.. Dont know if this would be considered the proper forum for such. Would appreciate an email from someone willing to "mentor" me a bit. Thanks. Chuck Mueller, Hello Charles, I gather from your email address that you are in the U.S.? An opening piece of generic advice concerns the Scott Catalogue, which you may have encountered if you enquired at your library. The minimum price attached to a stamp is 15 cents. A very, very common error is to sum all of these $0.15 values to determine a collective value for the low- value stamps in the collection. Sadly, "15 cents" for these stamps should be read "0 cents". Many would say "treat all values under $1 as zero" as well. And of the value of the remainder, expect to get, maybe, 10% if you sell to a dealer, if you have regularly-encountered stamps. Unless a collector has been extremely fastidious, fairly wealthy, and collecting more than (say) 50 years ago, a stamp collection sold is essentially sold as "scrap" and is likely to be worth less than what was put into it. I would also agree that passing the collection on intact, if at all possible, might be better: the collection might be worth more as a memory of the deceased than as a financial instrument. I, for one, look forward to your questions. :^) As Rodney said, they make us feel smart. -- Joshua H. McGee Sierra Madre, Los Angeles, California, USA Member: APS, ATA, ISWSC, MBPC Trade?: http://www.mcgees.org/stamp-offers/ |
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"Joshua McGee" wrote in message
... I, for one, look forward to your questions. :^) As Rodney said, they make us feel smart. We got no further chances this time... Continuation rather on eBay? :-) -- Victor Manta ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Philatelic Webmasters Organization: http://pwmo.org/ Art on Stamps: http://artonstamps.org/ Romania by Stamps: http://marci-postale.com/ Communism on Stamps: http://reds-on.postalstamps.biz/ Spanish North Africa: http://www.sna-on.postalstamps.biz/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Joshua McGee wrote: On May 16, 1:25 pm, "Charles Mueller" wrote: Hello. I have inherited a stamp collection and have some novice questions. Dont know if this would be considered the proper forum for such. Would appreciate an email from someone willing to "mentor" me a bit. Thanks. Chuck Mueller, Hello Charles, I gather from your email address that you are in the U.S.? An opening piece of generic advice concerns the Scott Catalogue, which you may have encountered if you enquired at your library. The minimum price attached to a stamp is 15 cents. A very, very common error is to sum all of these $0.15 values to determine a collective value for the low- value stamps in the collection. Sadly, "15 cents" for these stamps should be read "0 cents". Many would say "treat all values under $1 as zero" as well. And of the value of the remainder, expect to get, maybe, 10% if you sell to a dealer, if you have regularly-encountered stamps. Unless a collector has been extremely fastidious, fairly wealthy, and collecting more than (say) 50 years ago, a stamp collection sold is essentially sold as "scrap" and is likely to be worth less than what was put into it. I would also agree that passing the collection on intact, if at all possible, might be better: the collection might be worth more as a memory of the deceased than as a financial instrument. I, for one, look forward to your questions. :^) As Rodney said, they make us feel smart. -- Joshua H. McGee Sierra Madre, Los Angeles, California, USA Member: APS, ATA, ISWSC, MBPC Trade?: http://www.mcgees.org/stamp-offers/ The Scott minimum value has been 20 cents for a few years now. Joshua's point about most of these min value stamps being worthless as far as the resale market is concerned still applies. But one can still put together a nice-looking collection with minimum-value stamps. If not interested in continuing the collecting or passing it on to a relative who might be interested, Charles may want to donate the collection to an appropriate agency such as Boys Town. Bill |
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