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Posted 11/10/2011   06:43 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Durrani to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Hi, I am new to this forum. I have a little collection of postal stamps. I wanna know the current value of these postal stamps.Please Help me in this regard. Thanks!

















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Posted 11/10/2011   07:02 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add stallzer to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Hello, welcome to the site. In order to find what the value for the above posted Stamps, we would need to see bigger scans of the individual stamps. As they sit now it is too hard to positively identify many of them. From a quick glance I'd venture to say what you have shown is pretty common material from 1940 on which places them in the few cents apiece category. But again, to be absolutely sure, bigger scans would help. Certain postmarks and varieties can increase the value.
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Edited by stallzer - 11/10/2011 07:03 am
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Posted 11/10/2011   09:22 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add scotzm to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Hello Durrani... you should group your stamps according to country then scan/photograph the best ones. Someone may spot something of interest in their field. The older ones really need a better scan to evaluate but everything has potential. Hope you continue to collect anyway.
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Canada
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Posted 11/10/2011   11:13 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Puzzler to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Hello Duranni, welcome!

May I ask what kind of pages the stamps are in or on? It looks like to me that there are strips of something (adhesive? Glue?) behind them? Is this a photo album of the sort that uses a sticky background to hold the photos down? If that is true then please get the stamps out of that as soon as possible as that kind of page will ruin the stamps. That glue is very hard to remove.

Otherwise, if that is not the case (I worry a lot), then I agree with the above statements, the stamps mostly seem like common ones that are not valued very highly. The stamps that have nicks and tears and pieces missing have lost any value they may have had money-wise but are sometimes valuable for study of postmarks, varieties, colours, etc.

Try to get closer with the camera for a close-up and also to remove the plastic on top of the stamps so we can see them clearly. Oh, those lines of sticky glue worry me.

Stamps are sometimes, well, most of the times, valued by their collectors for their value of being fun to collect, not solely for any dollar value. They are little pieces of art and culture and history and need sorting out. That is why they are collected.
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