Phils Stamp Room

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v...re=endscreen


Part Two

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axz_QUyBOyU

WOW!

I think Mr Phil needs to share

Dianne

Good God! I suddenly feel like an underachiever. Got to show this to the missus. Prove to her things could be worse. (or better, depending on your point of view).

Crikey Dianne,
Phil has 12 ring binders more than you

Sadly, I don't see many slip cases around.

James...and his lovely wife has her collection in a seperate room upstairs..

DOUBLE WOW! It would be a lifetime to go through that collection

This is awesome

I have 2 walls devoted to stamps in one room and one 4-drawer high file in another room as well and I thought my collection was getting too big!

Chimo

Bujutsu

Why does he treat me like this ? Sadly I have seen this scenario before... a dealer will back the uhaul up and pay a pittance..but we are accumulators and hoarders after all !! If I made the same offer as the dealer I would be refused..but the dealers offer will be accepted...happily I do not need any more accumulation !!

What a mess ,I've seen hundreds of collections like that at stamp auctions both in New York and Chicago .Binders and binders of stamps and your lucky to find any better material inside . Just tons of cheap and damaged stamps .Only a few dealers would even touch that type of material .

floortrader, I agree..they would offer a thousand dollars for the room...and usually the widow want wants the room cleared !!

Wow and wow and WOW. I'd have to go $1010 based on speculation. It is so time consuming searching a few topics and countries and even if he did properly search as he went you'd figure you would have to go back and start all over for new varieties and finds. Would take a couple solid years of scanning alone. Can only imagine how many rooms like this are floating around the world only to be gobbled for mere pennies.

If a person has the SPACE and the time..go for it..most of the collectors I know only purchase the items they need for their collection !

If I accumalated that much I'd have to move house, I could only fit that lot into my place if I gave up silly things like a kitchen, bathroom and a bed :P

That room full of stamps would be interesting .But lets first see who would buy it ,not a collector --too overwhleming ,and a dealer doesn't have time or space to work on it . It would be a auction house .The auction house would spend a hour or two looking thru it and separating the items that can be sold as collections in a binder and all the rest into two or three bulk lots .Lets first realize that the buyer auction firm is going to spend equal amount shipping ,packing and listing these large bulk lots to what their going to pay this grandpa ,if they pay a thousand dollars or or two,they will run up a cost of a thousand or two processing it ,remember they got to pay for staff while people come to view it at the firm .So its possible for cost to run into a few thousand .So if its sold for 6,000 or 7,000 and they purchased it for $1,000 .There is no big killing to the stamp firm ........just my view point .

Yes, it might be tempting to a collector..but a collector is not going to move a hundred or a thousand of a certain stamp...something like that would sell at our local general auction house...but if you factored the labor of the auctioneers helpers...his 18 or 20 percent commission would be earned !!

A line from the Irving Berlin song, "Cheek to Cheek,"
goes through my head when looking at this stamp room:

"Heaven,
I'm in heaven
And my heart beats
So that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find
The happiness I seek"

What a room!

I wish he was my grandfather!