1 Million Stamps=$360

Ace stamp auctions Perth march 2010

1 million (Australian) stamps knocked down for $360

wow...just thinking of how long it would take to sort out 1million stamps? and to mount 1million stamps into how many stamp albums!? ....wow...

Perhaps a lot easier Nic, being dedicated Aussie, and bundled in 100's
otherwise just the thought of counting them gives me a headache :)

It can't have been worth $360 to sit down and sort, package and list that many stamps.


1, 2, 3, 4, 5 . . . . 97, 98, 99, 100. There's one stack. Only 9,999 more stacks to go.

I could never do just the bundling task. I have never understand the patience it had to take to just put the bundles together and they ever have been worth the cost.

Agreed, but it has at least, isolated the "Sort" gene, in the collecting animal.
Had they been loose and mixed with all and sundry, they would have trebled their purchasing power.
Stamp collectors are incurably optimistic, love to sort
and always waiting for the next good find.

How about 100 Kg of off-paper German commemoratives? Estimated 1.2 - 1.5 million stamps.

http://cgi.ebay.de/100-kg-Bund-Sond...ei_W0QQitemZ370266405274QQcmdZViewItemQQptZBriefmarke?hash=item563598f99a

He wants a bit more than A$360, though ...

Ryan

I cannot even think someone would count them. Unreal!

Weight!

I wonder about the true value in this lot. I know I have not seen it but I believe it would contain the good, the bad & the ugly. I would say about 75% of it would not be able to be graded good used or above.

Recently I managed to buy, for $400 posted from a charity, 15 kgs dec off paper. 95% of it is fine used & above. No bent corners or stamps stuck together. Some high denomination. They have picked out all the best stuff to take off paper. My count is 200,000 + fine used stamps that stretch from the 60s to recent. It is the best buy I have ever had. Just something to add to this thread.

Hi KG5,
happenestance had me sitting to the vendor of that 1,000,000 stamps
today at our stamp club meeting.
I cannot confirm your suggestion, but that they were
all Australian, tied in bundles of 100.
Possibly a life long collection of multiples or duplicates.
I have seen this sort of thing before with KG5 sidefaces
tied in bundles with cotton.
I don't think you would be far off the mark.
We all wondered where they may turn up next.