Hello, Just Joined

I have inherited a collection and am about to catalogue and sell it. Any suggestions for software? EZStamp or StampManager?

Welcome to Stamp Community Forum, Tom!

If you are planning on selling it, I see no reason to buy cataloging software. You are better off spending your time listing the items up for auction, rather than trying to inventory them in cataloging software. My opinion.

Print catalogs (Scott stamp catalogs) are often available for check-out or in the reference section of many public libraries. You should thumb through those to make sure you can get a handle on things. If you can't figure out the print catalogs, there's not much point in buying cataloging software.

As an aside, have you considered delving into stamp collecting? If you have inherited a collection, it's often a great start to a very rewarding hobby! My mother's stamp collection is what got me started 4 decades ago (she's still alive, she just gave it to me early ).

Kim

Thanks for the welcome, Kim. Spoken like a true collector, encouraging me to take up the hobby as you do. I was introduced to the art at a very young age by my father, and may keep my humble little alblum, but the rest has to go.

Regarding software, I just thought it would help the auctioning process, help me identify, provide pics for each stamp, etc?

LOL Kim you crack me up... ..

Tom. .what she says is true.. my very small local library had the entire scott 2007 catalog selection...
it's easy peasy.. and if you do buy software, I would recommend (based on my OWN experience) Ezstamp.. I fond their data to be more accurate and complete then elsewhere.

I am loading trial of ez right now. Tried Stamp Organizer Deluxe for a few seconds but didn't like it.

Will be on ebay soon (and other areas of this site after 15 days and 50 posts?)

hmmm...EZStamp won't run...something about 64-bit compatibility, darn it all, off to another help forum I guess

G'Day Tom and to the forum,

with Kim too also it won't take that long to rack up 50 posts

if you need any questions answered Tom just ask.

regards Harry down under

Tom. yeah it doesn't run under a 64bit OS. You might try running it in 32 bit mode. They are working on a new version that runs on Win7 etc.. (I know because I asked them before I bought mine)

She is a he (I checked again just to make sure).

k

Why don't you post a couple of snapshots. We can at least tell you whether or not it is worth your while to catalog it for sale.


Besides, we LOVE looking at stamps!!

k

Sorry Kim, I just assumed from the name... my bad dude..

No problem, I'm used to being mis-IDed.

For a couple of years, I was receiving some odd calls. Someone asked for me by name, to which I replied, "This is he". Then silence, then they hung up. They called back, same thing happened again. Or sometimes, they would say, "Sorry, I must have the wrong number." This happened several times over the course of a couple of years. Now you can figure out I was very confused, having identified myself as being the name requested, and then getting a reply that it was a wrong number.

One time it was a very late night call. This time, the caller was very apologetic, and I had time to collect my wits and inquire why she was so sure she was the wrong number. The distraught lady responded that she was calling from another state, trying to locate her missing college-age daughter. Apparently, her friends had also been trying to locate her. Hearing a man's voice, they concluded they had the wrong number.

On her own initiative, she assured me that she and no other friends would ever call me again. I hope she was able to find her daughter, because she sounded so sad and so tired. Unfortunately, afterwards, for several years, I received occasional calls from collection agencies looking for my namesake, same background/movement so I know it was the same girl. Back then, the collection agencies were actually rather polite, and we would answer each other's questions. I probably know more about her than I do about my own life!

It's been about 20 years since I last received a call concerning her. I hope that she has been able to reunite with her family and work out her problems.

Sorry for taking this thread off-topic.

wow. cool story...

Thanks for the pics!!

I finally got my Canada album and have started to move my Canadian stamps out of glassines/stockbooks and into the album, so I especially enjoyed your pics as a taste of things to come!!

Looks like you have modern Canada. If most of the collection is like that, I think your money and time would be better invested in getting a Unitrade Canada catalog and selling items at a percentage of catalog value. Unitrade catalog values are higher than Scott, but Unitrade does list plate blocks.

If your stamp collection has significant world-wide stamps, then my recommendation would be to different.

Are you in Canada? I don't know if the Canadian libraries have any Scott catalogs (or even Stanley-Gibbons or Michel stamp catalogs).

@khj
The mint stamps are my starting point, and they are mostly modern Canadian, but the cancelled collection ranges quite far back and is very international! It may take years but I started today with scans of a few hundred...and thousands to come.

I am good to go with "canadianstamps.info" online for rough pricing (37 cent stamp mint in blocks maybe worth average 75-80 cents?)

Hello Tom H, welcome.

From your profile you are in Chilliwack which is I remember correctly is in British Columbia, Canada, to answer khj's question. As for Scott and Unitrade catalogues in libraries, well, they are in the libraries here in Halifax, Nova Scotia, across the continent if that helps any. I see book 1 and 2 of Scott 2011 is out now, by the way.