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selling common stamps
Hi all.
First, some history. I am a newbie wading my way through Scott's Catalogs for a friend. He has a shoebox full of various worldwide stamps he handed me and asked me to look through them to see if anything is worthwhile in there to sell, and scrap the rest. Now, I collect coins largely, but my son nor I know too much of stamps, though we both have a passing interest in them. I'm guessing any cancelled stamps listed in Scott's as .20 value means a dealer would not even be interested. Thus, these are 'scrap' by my friend's terms and open to giving to my son, myself, or others. I'm also guessing that a stamp worth 10.00 in Scott's would at least be of an interest to a dealer, and he would give me a fair offer based on condition, wholesale pricing, etc., which would be a small percentage of the Scott's value. I want to be fair to myself and to my friend, and don't want to waste dealers' time bringing him things to look at that he wouldn't be interested in. This brings us to two questions. 1) At what point of Scott's value should I figure on the stamp actually being worth selling in my friends interest? 2) Assuming a stamp is say a cancelled VF that Scott's shows as a value of 10.00, what should I expect a dealer to offer? Is 20% of Scott's realistic, should it be a lot more, a lot less? I understand condition is everything, but there must be some guesstimate of percentage I could go with for a 'typical' example. I am interested only in the 100.00 and under range, as there isn't likely to be anything of any real value. TYIA -- dw |
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selling common stamps
Scott catalog prices usually are far from realastic. You are pretty
much in the ballpark with your figures. Right on target as to condition. What you get for the stamps would have to be determined by the dealer...or someone else interested in them. Most dealers have little use for common stamps and will not make an offer. Ralphael, the OLD one |
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