I Want To Sell A Worldwide Stamp Collection

Location, location...I think this is the case because Aussies live below the Equator!

Ok, stamp collections are virtually worthless..i personally know one exception to the rule...H.R. Harmer sent two guys to his house for 3 full days...when they were done they offered him a quarter of a million dollars outright for his collection(he had the first pages of British North America complete) he declined the offer and went to auction...Harmer paid the shipping on his collections, charged him no sellers fee and he realized about $315,000 for his collection..he was not your average collector folks..brains and money can do a lot..if you get the Harmer catalog and go back about a year you will see who he is..or if you belong to stamp associations in the Ottawa area you may know him ! Hope I am not tattling !!

Check the catalog and see if you have mint and used copies of New Brunswick numbers 1,2 3 and 4..if you do ..find someone reliable !!

For stockbooks, stock sheets etc. storage accessories I'd advice to wait for (truly superb) bargains, and then buy in bulk (=manufacturer box/carton) when you find something appropriate. The one time cost in this strategy will make your wallet cry, but on the long run it will save you major $$$... For example a local mail ordery company here is having a weekend special on Lighthouse stockbooks - 75% off from list prices + free delivery Of course I'll order a box or two with those prices even if I won't be needing new stockbooks in next year or so.

Hey chasa I'll give you a C note for 150,000 stamps...lol

Seriously though This thread is chock full of great advise. Learn from our mistakes now and save yourself a huge headache later!

scb- I need to find those kind of deals on stockbooks! I am spending way too much money getting new stockbooks for my world wide collection. I have already filled 13 64 page lighthouse stockbooks and I am only at letter "F".

Now that is a serious stockbook collection! I eventually gave in and started producing album pages. Germany is done, US and Canada are about to begin. Sadly, there are going to be 12 blanks on the Canada pages (although there are a number of variants that I haven't looked at much yet).

I have my favorite countries on Steiner pages. The first country I did was Germany and now I have expanded it to Scandinavia, Australia, Canada and Japan. So these countries are not included in the stockbooks. I love the Steiner pages, but unfortunately they take up a lot of space when you print out all the pages for the country!

What happened Dorati? Did sell? made the big bucks? or you are going to be one of us?

I am not going to hold my breath waiting for a reply

Dorati - welcome to the forum and enjoy your time here learning about your stamps so that if you do decide to sell, you will be armed with the knowledge of approximately how much value you have. The most important thing is time, the more you spend at the hobby, the more educated you will be about your stamps. WELCOME and glad to have you with us. - Jeff

Jhlovell, sadly I think Philb may be correct.

Common phenomena for non-collectors who find stamps in their possession - only want to know 'how much money can I pocket from this' rather than build up what they have into a salable collection of stamps well worth their time, effort and money.

I don't see anything of value in this collection. Sorry :(

Welcome Dorat. They may not be worth a fortune, but personally I think those Touva stamps are pretty nice looking.

I'm glad this thread evened out and a lot of good advice was given out for Dorati and others...including myself.

I continued my father and grandfather's legacy of coin collecting when I was 8 (1964) but was not interested in stamps, which they both collected.

I inherited my father/grandfather's stamp collection in 2003 and have only recently begun to look through the 6 army issue footlockers of stamps.

Daunting, really...and I can empathize with Dorati on some level: Holy Cow ! What am I going to do? I know nothing about stamps.

I'm probably not as young as Dorati...I'm 55; I work every day; I have a wife I pay attention to when I'm not working....attention paying that tends to supersede natural and chosen avocations and hobbies....philately, so far, not being one of either.

So, the world of perf x perf, watermarks, (innumerable covers), albums, countries, errors, keys, etc....whew !!

I'm trying to find brain space and time to get it together to begin posting images here...here...community forum, of which I've been a coin member for a long time, and new to the stamp forum...both of which, rock the house.

I live in a small northern coastal town in California. There is a stamp club here. It would be grand if I felt I could turn over the collection to a collector and say, "what's it worth? I want to sell it."

Six footlockers? What if there's a 1909 S VDB stamp in there?
Or a 1955 DD?



Thanks
Jim