Those So Called Damage Stamps.

After sorting through my stamps over the past few months I have finally taken out the damaged stamps. They have bad folds, tears, thins or missing corners.

Now the questions I have is what do I do with them.

#1. Throw them away.
#2. Hang on to them they might become valuable.
#3. Offer them in a fire sell.
#4. Give them away.
#5. Use them to make a unique artwork piece for the wall.
#6. Experiment cleaning & repairing techniques.
#7. Use them as starter paper for the coal furnace.
#8. Have some fun and practice making fake non perfs. (not for sell)

Here's one

Why don't you take them and make a homemade reference guide
for Scott's colors....

Show some respect. These are stamps. They desrve a decent burial.

Mk....

isn't your daughter collecting ?

Yes she is but these are stamps that are doubles or more. I do save those and use those that I do not have doubles of.

In fact she is the foreign collector in the house and she keeps even the damaged stamps until she can find a replacement.

However I have a glut of US stamps between 1930 and 1970 so I just started cull out the damaged stamps. Of course I made sure she had good ones of each stamp that was culled.

See below. What I thought was an edit turned out
to be a new post. Guess I hit the back key and
thought I had the edit box!

My father had a name for these when I was a kid.
He'd call them "Hurt Ones" and would even place
them in a glassine marked "Hurt Ones" when he was
sorting. Not that there was any first aid for them.

I remember buying a nice mix of recent foreign, on
paper stamps (recent at the time) when I was in high
school that I had soaked. There was a teacher who
taught grade school who was a stamp collector and
would get a lot of young kids interested in stamps
as they passed through his class. Word got out through
my younger sister that I had a box of "hurt" stamps
so I had a few of the neighborhood kids coming over
wanting to buy the prettier "Hurt Ones" for a penny
each and looking for more. They knew they were "Hurt
One" and asked for them by name!

Take them to an activity room at your local V.A. Hospital.
Give some bored Vets something to do.
They sort through your extra stamps, you might
create some new collectors.

Dad wanted his big bag of modern stamps on paper torn
from cover to go to them. I have to get around
to doing it now...

#9. Please post them here:
https://goscf.com/t/542#542

That is an old thread that I never noticed.

I throw all of my miscellaneous spares into a box. It includes very slightly "hurt" material, perfectly good copies of issues from countries I don't collect, and multiples of Germany and Guatemala when I have more than I care to keep in my inventory. When it gets full, I will give it to one of the guys or gals supporting youth, Boy Scouts, etc.

That said, I put badly hurt stamps out of their misery.

Some of these are very nice looking stamps, tough the value is not much. What I would really like to do is repair them, but then again it comes down to cost and market value.

It just bothers me to give them out to people when they are damaged.

I know exactly what you're saying MK. When I find newer stamps that are damaged they get a proper burial right away. If it's a classic and I don't have it I keep it until a better one comes along. I don't like passing on damaged stamps either though I have if I think it's hard to find and the damage is minimal.

Dianne