advice please on selling stamp collections...?

hello.

my mother passed away recently, leaving a stamp collection behind. since
she worked in a post office back in the 50's and 60's, she regularly saved
'corners' of new stamp issues; as well she has corners of stamps that go
back to the 1930's and 40's. Most of these are in mint condition. She also
collected stamps as a little girl, so she has albums with miscellaneous
cancelled world stamps from the early part of the century (1910's, 20's
etc). These are mounted in albums. Being Canadian, most of the "corners"
(new issues) are Canadian stamps.

can anyone give me any hints as to a way of selling or advertising this
collection so as to get a fair price?

thanks for any input ..

Bailee

Bailee wrote:
hello.

my mother passed away recently, leaving a stamp collection behind. since
she worked in a post office back in the 50's and 60's, she regularly saved
'corners' of new stamp issues; as well she has corners of stamps that go
back to the 1930's and 40's. Most of these are in mint condition. She also
collected stamps as a little girl, so she has albums with miscellaneous
cancelled world stamps from the early part of the century (1910's, 20's
etc). These are mounted in albums. Being Canadian, most of the "corners"
(new issues) are Canadian stamps.

can anyone give me any hints as to a way of selling or advertising this
collection so as to get a fair price?

thanks for any input ..

Bailee

Here are a couple of web pages dealing with this subject:

http://www.usstamps.org/inherit.html
http://www.virtualstampclub.com/inherit.html

These are somewhat oriented to US collectors, but you should still be
able to get some useful info from them. Most unused US stamps from the
30's and 40's have wholesale values at or below their face value. I
would guess that the situation is the same for Canadian stamps. But
there may be some more valuable stamps in there and "corners" (if what
collectors call "plate blocks" -- with the printing plate number) may be
worth a bit more.

= Eric

Yes, APS is a good place. They will sell the stamps at good price.

If ever...I am introducing my 9 years old daughter to the world of
stamp collecting. Last year at school, she had an homework to do on
stamps vs any themes like sport, geography, science...in 10 differents
countries.
I used to collect stamps before I get married but got stolen.

If you want to get rid of your stamps, I know a little
girl that would be more than happy to have something to start with!!
I am her coach :-))

If I have to give you something, I'll be glad to do it
I used to know what was the passion of stamp collecting

My best regards

Robert Potvin
Chambly, P.Q.
Canada

Please email me



Le Sat, 02 Aug 2003 08:43:57 GMT, "Bailee" a écrit
:

hello.

my mother passed away recently, leaving a stamp collection behind. since
she worked in a post office back in the 50's and 60's, she regularly saved
'corners' of new stamp issues; as well she has corners of stamps that go
back to the 1930's and 40's. Most of these are in mint condition. She also
collected stamps as a little girl, so she has albums with miscellaneous
cancelled world stamps from the early part of the century (1910's, 20's
etc). These are mounted in albums. Being Canadian, most of the "corners"
(new issues) are Canadian stamps.

can anyone give me any hints as to a way of selling or advertising this
collection so as to get a fair price?

thanks for any input ..

Bailee