Massive Collection Of Stamps. Includes Albums/Single Stamps.

I am posting this because my family inherited hundreds of stamps from my grandfather and I also have a small collection of stamps. The collection is massive and partially sorted. If anything is collectible that you see pictured, please don't hesitate to tell me. I'm always interested in hearing others' opinions.

Sorry, but what you've posted so far is essentially good only for sending letters through the mail, it's all extremely common postage from the 60s, worth no more than face value.

The following are stamps out of my personal collection.

Unsure of where to post a discussion for these

Your stamps are first class postage. Nearly all first class postage, at least since the 1930s are not worth any more than their face value. There are, of course, exceptions which are few and far between. As mentioned all of yours shown are common and plentiful. That said, yours are never the less collectable and can be appreciated by you and anyone else who admires stamps. But there is a small possibility that a sheet or block with a specific plate number just may have a little extra value.

The envelopes you posted are another story. They are called "covers" in philatelic circles. The two shown are nice and I see are covers with Naval themes. These have a potential value of 50 cents and up depending upon the theme and postmark (cancelation).

LOL @ blocking out addresses from the 1940s

sorry, just had to chuckle at that.

Honest truth, worth less than they were purchased for when fresh from the Post Office. There are millions if not hundreds of millions of this type of material available, people do not like to put fifteen 3 cent stamps on an envelope or eleven 4 cent and a 1 cent stamp or nine 5 cent stamps, to mail a letter. 60% max face value, It is what it is.

It's okay. I just feel that it's better to feel safe than sorry.

Sorry if the photo is blurry.

The great majority of value in US Stamps is pre-1935. There are exceptions, but very few.

The wholesale value of most US 3c stamps is actually above face value and has been for over 5 years. I routinely see $100+ auctions lots of what I consider common 3c sheets and blocks sold for 1.5x-2x face. I'm really not sure why, since there are still millions and millions of them. If these were pre-WWII issues, I could understand. But many of these lots consist of post-WWII 3c stamps.

On 3c postage, I now limit myself to first using up hinged/damaged/off-center stamps for postage.

No worries about the blurry photos, GBfan101.

Generally speaking, if you can identify a US stamp as being from after 1940, it's safe to assume there is little to no value in the stamps ... mint or used. Used postage has a market value of not much more than .05, and mint postage not more than face value. There are a few exceptions, but they are few and far between.

You mentioned albums ... are there any stamps from the classic era (pre-1940)? If so, try posting a few pictures of those.

Brian

60% FV maybe to a dealer... but they still sell them at face or above...

It's collectible to you if you don't have it...

I don't mind using lots of stamps on envelopes... that's why they made #10 size