US Stamp Pages

I was going through some old papers and I found a book from 1934 called "The Discoverer Album for Postage Stamps of the World" The book is FILLED with stamps from the period and older! I have no clue about them and I kinda did a little research but I just find them really interesting. I will post the US stamp pages. If you see anything interesting or odd let me know. I would love to hear about it.

A childhood collection, very likely worth a penny or two each at most. It's possible something unusual lurks among the ones with Washington's or Franklin's portrait but very unlikely.

Some are in damaged condition.

And they are on cheap acidic paper which will (probably already has) damaged the stamps.

A hundred pages like this will sell for a dollar or two if it can be sold at all.

Why, you might ask??

Well, granted, one could comb through them one by one to make sure nothing better lurks among them but that takes a lot of time by someone knowledgeable (and would have to be done from high resolution scans of individual stamps, but to know which ones are candidates for even possible "better" value and hence to know which ones to scan individually already requires combing through them generally before scrutinizing the handful of possible "betters.") The likelihood of finding anything worth more than a penny or two is so low that for most people it's not worth their time.

Therefore, someone might give you a dollar or two for a hundred or more pages like this thinking, "Someday I'll work through these to see if there are any "betters" among them.

Edited to add:

The red and green stamps in the third row from the bottom on the last page pictured are parcel post and special handling stamps, catalogue value of 1.75 and .90 but sellable value of about 10% to 30% of that if they are not damaged. There might be a few more like this scattered through the pages. If there's enough of them, you might get $5.00-10.00 for all the pages, but then again you might not.
Collectors interested in cancels from specific places or specific types of cancels might notice something they are interested in by glancing over photos of pages like the ones you have posted. Some members of SCF may see this thread and do that for you. But the premium for specific cancels is usually not very much. The average dealer or collector would offer a dollar or three for the whole pile of pages, less if the stamps are damaged from acid paper. Most would not even make an offer.

But having said that, you could post more images of more pages and perhaps some of the cancel collectors would glance over them.

Finally, YOU could get the stamps off the acid paper (if they are hinged, slide a knife underneath the stamp and cut the hinge where it's folded over) and then start sorting and analyzing them yourself, become a knowledgeable collector yourself. No monetary value there but a lot of fun value and US history and. . . and . . .

The stamps with town/state printed on them are called precancels. You have quite a few here, but they are all inexpensive varieties. The Pampa Texas is from a small town usually a good indicator] but many must have been used as it books for 0.25 USD in the precancel catalog.

Although the album is perhaps copyrighted in 1934, and makes direct reference to President FDR (1933-1945) the commemoratives in it seem to range primarily from 1936 to 1940. The regular issue stamps on page 62 are mostly from the 1920s, and the stamps from the Presidential series were in use mainly in the 30s and 40s. This appears to be a collection started by someone prior to WWII who seems to have stopped it at the beginning of the war. The precancelled stamps are mostly from Baltimore and Philadelphia, though whether that has any bearing on where the collection was formed I cannot say.

Thank you for the info! I have been looking through the scott catalog the past few days and learning a whole lot. I personally like the circle ones on the last page as they have the image pushed into the circle and the one on the first page on the top right that is green. I can't seem to find them in the book. I know the German, France, and Great Britain page have older stamps that match to 1900-1910 in them. I will post some images of them on the world thread. There are a few I really like there too.

Wonder if that collection originated in Baltimore....
Lots of Baltimore cancel/precancel

The "circle ones" you are seeing are cut out from embossed envelopes in which the postage was printed right on the envelope. Yours have been cut-to-shape, which was a common thing among children as collectors in days of yore, but normally they are not collected that way. If you are using a Scott Specialized catalog, then in the index look for "envelopes and wrappers."

The "round green one" top row, first page, is cut out from a Government issued postal card. In the Scott index look for "Postal cards" Not all of the different kinds of Scott catalogs will list these two "back-of-the-book" items, but the Scott Specialized always will. Information on how they have been collected will also be found in the Specialized.

Sometimes they will be referred to as "Cut Squares"--but yours are not cut square, rather, cut-to-shape, which generally lowers their value.

I usually score a couple of those at my favorite second hand store for a few bucks. Fun to look through, and I havn't seen too many stamps damaged by the paper. Once in a while I'll find something cool in them.
The envelope cut to shape specimen's go in my wall of shame piles, where abused stamps eventually get displayed.
I like those books, but then, I'm a stamp hoarder... um collector, yeah, that's it "A Collector".