Another Found Stamp Collection

a guy I know at the gym has a friend Tommy who found a stamp collection while cleanning an attic or something..Old stamps, Hitler. Vatican etc...ok, I agreed to look at it for him...today we met..he had the cigar box (oh no !) an American album with a black cover and a scott International..there were probably 80 stamps between the two albums..the usual stuff someone started a collection and soon tired of it..the guy was ripping first day covers from the 1950s open to look for stamps and I had to tell him the cancel was what counted and not to rip them.... if I have seen one accumulation like this I have seen 2 dozen...the guy understood that it had no value !!

Did Tommy give it to you? Now if you were interested in value, why would you destroy something if you didn't know what it was? ie. tearing open FDC's.

Phil:

If you think that's bad, spend a week behind the counter at Ian Kimmerly's and see the junk that comes in!

David

David and Dude, no I did not want the collection..if I took it he may have thought I was lying to him. I have enough stuff stacked in my stamp room without worthless junk !..he didnt know the first day cover from a hole in the wall so we can not blame him..i wish that stamp dealers would start a slush fund and buy these so called collections and burn them..they are just weeds..people find a cigar box with stamps and a album with pictures and they think they have found a stamp collection !!

I agree with you Phil.....


Butch