WTB - Worldwide Box Lots With Stockbooks, Dealer Cards, Etc. Mostly For Charity

Looking for a USA dealer or dealers to periodically supply box lots of worldwide in stockbooks, on display cards, glassines etc. Price range around $100 -$200. Any countries, but prefer to avoid CTO & phantasy issues.

95% will be donated to the Stamps for the Wounded program. A few better items will be culled to sell in a club auction to help offset the expense and I might keep a few for myself here and there for the few countries that I collect.

If I get multiple responses, I'll buy a box from each dealer then will subscribe for regular shipments with the two dealers who supply the best assortments.

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Hi philatelia7.
I emailed you this last week.



Please let me know if you are/are not interested.
Thx
Don

Hi Don,

Oh no! I did not receive your email! . I just double checked my email of record, and it is correct. I tried to send myself a test message but it didn't go through - I'm not sure what is wrong. I'll try changing to a back up email account and see if it goes through.

In the meantime YES I would very much like to purchase the box. I will email you about payment. THANK YOU!

Theresa

OK - problem solved. I changed my email to my other account at yahoo and the test message went through perfectly. I have no clue as to why the gmail account wasn't functioning properly.

MY SINCERE APOLOGIES TO ANYONE WHO ATTEMPTED TO CONTACT ME!

Thank you, Don, for the huge box of worldwide! This is the first time that I've gone through a standard off paper worldwide mixture in, OMG, dare I admit it, four decades! I've been specializing for so long that I'd forgotten what a beginner mixture looks like, all those Poland and Romania, the Sand dunes, the orange Spanish Franco, the Netherland numerals, the queens, the Danish kings and exotic Turkish, Chinese, Japanese that I couldn't read. Seeing all of these brought back many memories of hinging stamps in my Citation album while watching Saturday morning cartoons. Sigh. And nowadays mixes contain Machins galore in a rainbow of colors, phantasy stamps from places like Einhallow Scotland and Equatorial Guinea. Plus every now and then I'm finding in this box what I now recognize as "better" such as Iceland and some mint sets from the Caribbean tucked underneath like Easter eggs waiting to be found like buried treasure.

This box brought back memories of riding my bike to the downtown mall in Kalamazoo and buying a bag of stamps from Woolworth's five and ten store. LoL I wish I knew what I know now! I would have bought every dang bag of Dennison hinges that they had!

I'm doing a presort and getting them ready to ship to the SFTW charity. FYI, if anyone else want to donate stamps, they request foreign be separate from USA, and that mint USA be sorted from used. Damaged are to be removed and sent to that big album in the sky.

Send donations to:

Stamps for the Wounded
P.O. Box 297
Dunn Loring, VA 22027-0297

Tell me that you were recalling the orange Francos. Surely, they can't still be filling up mixtures?!

Riding a bike to Woolworths for a bag of stamps...those were the days.

There were Franco's! Honest! But they were vastly outnumbered by Machins and Canadian flags.

There he is!

Wow! The nostalgia...it burns.

Thanks for the pic. I can't imagine going through the equivalent of three Golden Galleons at once.

My 'boxes of stamps' are typically quite a mix of material. I am not a dealer nor do I often try to sell material at retail market value.

The 'boxes' of WW stamps I generate are any stamps <$100CV that I do not collect and/or already have in my own collection. I throw this material in a box in no particular order although you can sometimes get a feel for the order of countries that I happened to be working on.

My WW collection is my 'fun' collection, so I rarely lookup or check watermarks or perforations. So it pays to look closely at every stamp, you might find a higher value, mint, never hinged stamp sitting in the middle of a bunch of CTO stamps from Hungary.

Since I tend to buy this kind of material using my 'fun factor formula' (price / hours of fun for me) I do not feel a need to invest a lot of time and effort in moving the material on to the next person. Nor do I look to make money on them. For me, not sitting around with material in my house, not paying eBay listing fees, not spending time scanning and making listings, and not dealing with eBay buyer transactional hassles makes this approach ideal.

I currently have 3 other previous buyers of these kinds of boxes and they all seem to enjoy them (all have purchased additional boxes every time I let me know that I have one available.
Don

My guess is that you were working on recent Scandinavia, Machins, Caribbean and maybe Canada when you put this box together, plus you mentioned that you had a horde of CTOs turn up in a big lot auction purchase.

That's a really healthy system, Don, having a "fun" collection. Mine is my old Irish flyspecking horde. I can get oodles of them inexpensively - cheap fun!

I bought a box of these and it was fantastic! I did a couple of reviews of them IIRC. I highly recommend it. I don't have paypal anymore but I check every once in a while to see if one is listed on Ebay. Have fun!

Paulsonja

Hello Philatelia7,

Like Don, I am not a dealer, but can provide you with boxes of off paper stamps for at least 8 months. Each box will be about 2 pounds. While there will be some Eastern Europe CTO, most will be postally used. I do have some on paper, but I got rid of much of that in a giveaway last month. All of my stamps are in glassine or paper envelopes, so I could let you concentrate on an area of the world or a mix of everything. Let me know.

Don said above The 'boxes' of WW stamps I generate are any stamps <$100CV that I do not collect and/or already have in my own collection. I throw this material in a box in no particular order although you can sometimes get a feel for the order of countries that I happened to be working on.

Oh wow! If these are the duplicate stamps that you've found recently, then chances are good that there are probably many, many stamps you need for your collection. I'd be happy to help you out with recent Japan. I also just worked on Austria and have a good range of commemoratives from 1957-2005. I could send you some as a gift - a thank you for your generous volunteer work here and elsewhere.

And thank you for your excellent offer, Willwood. I like the idea of stamps in glassines by areas. Send me an email with a sample pic?

Thank you for your consideration but my WW stops at 1976.
My 1840-1976 WW currently has around 180,0000 stamps so I still have plenty of the common material to go.

I love the stress-free nature of my WW collection; it easily distracts me from the day-to-day 'noise'. At other times, I put the WW collection aside and delve into one of my specialize collections for a few weeks. And toggling between my WW and a specialize collection in the same day often keeps me from growing weary of any of the tasks. So much material, so little time!
Don

I have found a few sources, so moderators please kindly close this want to buy request? Thank you.