Investing In 19th Century US Stamps

Revstampman, my Dad lived to 98 1/2 he had a good run..but in the last year or two he took his revenge !!

After what I put my parents through, I'm SCARED! My only hope is to live long enough to ba a problem to my children.

Wow, I just noticed I passed 100 posts! Time flies when your having fun!!

Me + Stocks = One company going broke. Seriously! I've sent 3 companies belly up by buying shares in them. Should have spent it on stamps.

Balf

You should start a company that specializes in offering to buy stock of the competition. It's an innovative way to take out your competitor. Isn't innovation the way of the future?

well to continue this thread on investing.
investing in stamps is not a good idea I get
just curious though if a person only gets say 20 percent of scott catalog value for his us classic stamps does this mean that stamps get a 5 percent annual return or in that neighborhoo?
what I mean is the value of us classic stamps does not stay static year to year. they do get some kind of annual increase in value even though you get far below the scott catalog value if you sell to a stamp dealer,right?

There have been news stories recently on very
high dollar $1 MillionUSD for a couple of comic books. These are the
most sought after, highest end available. The two of recent times were
exceptional copies, properly graded and offered by a premium aution house. The prices paid were in my opinion, absolutely stupid. Perhaps to a person with an 8 figure income it was doable, but....
The auction house hit both the seller and buyer with 10% fees, plus
whatever legal fees and taxes the buyer and sellers would incure from
the sale. Looking for a return on these two will be a long long time
down the road, if ever.

As far as stamp investing goes, I would consider buying stamps that fit into different collecting genres. 19th Century U. S. or CSA Stamps printed during the U. S. Civil War 1861-1865 are of interest to stamp collectors, but would also be of interest to collectors who collect other items from that time period, such as military uniforms, weapons, equipment, paper epherma, etc. When it comes time to sell, then you can also market your stamps to those types of collectors and not just strictly to stamp collectors. Might be able to get more in return as a result. You could also apply this idea to other historical time periods such as World War I and World War II when buying stamps.

My other, yet very speculative, thought is to not just focus on 19th Century U. S. stamps, but also look into stamps of early Mexico and early British India. As the demographics in the United States change in the coming years with more people immigrating to the United States from Mexico, India, China, etc. those individuals and their decendants years later will begin looking around for items from their ancestral countries of origin to collect as they will no longer have access or have limited access to those historic items, including stamps from their homeland of origin, since they now live in the United States. Then again they probably could find sources on the internet from dealers in those countries, but it is always easier and less hassle to buy from sellers within your own country.