Holy Yard Sale Motherload!

Looks like you're going to have a little Siamese helper. What's his/her name?

Current SG CV for a four margin penny black with a red MX cancel is £375, so that one stamp has paid for the lot, even with three margins!

That's Bumper - she's 15. She doesn't help much. Just stands on things I don't want her to stand on at the time :)

And this is Caddy, she's almost 2 and still loves to play like she was 2 months old

Cute. I have a cat "Lucky" His favorite spot is to lay in front of the computer monitor with his paw on the keyboard. Pushing on keys of course. Which doesn't help!

Mike were any of the Minkus Albums Plate Block Albums?

FYI - There's an auction on ebay with a 3-margin that looks very similar.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/GREAT-BRITA...em4d08d49371

Why does that cat in the box picture scare me..i am not usually too anxious ??

Have you found any other goodies amongst that nice stuff that you could show us? I'm most curious..lol

I just can't get my self up to the task of going through worldwide stuff when my only interest is really just US. We had a blizzard a couple weeks ago and when the power was out, I pulled out pile of this stuff and thought maybe I'd get some sorting done. But I grabbed one box that had about 10 envelopes stuffed with old Italian stamps, got overwhelmed again and put them back upstairs :)

Very nice thing to stumble on! I've not run into9 this, but don't go to yard sales much either. Could you give a ballpark figure of how much something like this would cost, or would be good to pay, if you ran into it as you did? Or do you let the seller set the price with no haggle?

He wanted 200, I offered 150 and we settled on 175. I don't think you can blanket price a giant lot like that. I know I got my money's worth out of it though. Never sold anything out of it but sure had a lot of fun going through it and still haven't attacked the world wide stuff yet.

Picked up a much smaller lot last weekend that has nothing past 1920 in it from Craigslist. Paid 125 for that one with no haggle. But ended up buying about 25 pounds of sports cards from the 70s and early 80s for an additional 11 dollars from him :) All the money I had left on me LOL

Mike,

You are awesome and lucky. Thanks for sharing.

I'm a collector of Newfoundland and would be happy to help identify any of those if there are any.

Thanks - Actually Tommy, there was a lot of Canada and provinces in there and I already had a bunch so I did pull all that out. Bought a Minkus album that only goes up to 78 on ebay and filled a lot of it. As far as Newfoundland, this is most of what I have, just in vario pages but I've also got a bit more in envelopes but not scanned to my site yet:

Tinman or anyone??

What is a plate block album? Thanks.

A plate block album is an album for storing plate blocks - I assume he means PB's of US stamps. They are typically corner blocks of 4 with a plate number in the margin (some earlier ones and some from the 1970's are larger in size).