Inherited Over 3000 Stamps

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I disagree it is of no saleable value.
I buy albums like this but just don't expect much for it. I have paid as little as 50p for an album to £5.
It's not going to make you rich though unfortunately.
Bear in mind that even a Victorian penny red which may be old and look valuable was printed in the billions so does not necessarily have a large financial value.

As has already been said, you have a good start on a great collection! Whomever gave you this collection obviously really enjoyed the the hobby. I wouldn't worry too much about any monetary value. The value is in the time you spend in learning about what you have. If you don't have any reference books I would suggest getting a used set of Scott's or Stanly Gibbons from ebay and perhaps remounting them by country by catalog number. There are many stamps with watermark, perforation or type differences to learn about. The main thing is to have some fun with it.

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Yes welcome stamp1learner. A nice well rounded selection. I especially like the older Iceland and Austrian.
I see in your Canadian page you have a cut out from an Aerogramme prestamped stationary. These were sheets of lightweight paper with postage already printed on that you would write and then fold up for mailing. A nice piece of postal history.
Here's a complete one (folded).

Thanks all for the welcome, I still have many many more, which are already in the book to show you, I actually have found a few french stamps, all loose in another book of stamps that are totally mixed,

The french ones I found another site with reference numbers on and compared mine, in very close up detail, and they are very very alike and priced up from $6 dollars up to $20, but not as good a condition.

Will show them later or tomorrow, There is plenty of things to learn.

Cannot remember the site, Could anyone point me in the right direction, where a site has the stamps listed as numbers ETC: 9/1860-10/75 or similar. thanks

Mostly, to me only now, who has so-so experience with worldwide stamps, most of these are stamps in good shape, varying condition (affects cash value) (means mostly the centering of design within stamp) But . . .

. . . there are some that I have not seen before at all and look like nice stamps to me. That doesn't mean they are the $10,000 types but just within the $1 to $10 range and maybe more.

I am limited by not having a worldwide catalogue at hand (us the library's) so can't check the current catalogue value. However, this would only confuse you, being a new-to-stamps person, as catalogue values are only for really good condition, really nice copies of issues of stamps. And the values are what you would pay to a stamp dealer. Not what you would get when you sold them.

perhaps that last line didn't make sense. Hmmm. Well, if you were a trusted dealer, that is, people trusted your opinion and honesty and generally good business dealings, and they also trusted your appraisal on stamps, plus you were a big enough dealer to have a shopeither online or in real life and a lot of customers came to you, you could charge that catalogue price and get it.

I, however, could not get it is I sold your stamps. Nor could you.

Most of the time you get a lot less and sometimes, if you have good sales skills and ask the right person at the right time you will get more than catalogue. But do you have all day and night to do this? No, of course not.

Supply and demand. There are a lot of people online and in eal life taht are selling stamps. And most of the stamps you have shown, as nice as they are (to a stamp collector all stamps are nice to a certain degree), would have been printed in the millions and millions and so there will be rather a lot of many left over.

Only tye ones of a higher face value or a value tthat didn't have a whole lot printed to start with, will have a high catalogue and also street value. Only about 25% of them maybe. And of that 25% only 10% are the really rare ones that are worth more money that most people will ever have.

Are you catching my drift here? Not meaning to be a downer at all. Just look at stamp[s as a great way to learn history, learn about art, about places and people, share your treasures with other collectors (good companionship indeed) and enjoy a job well done. If you want to turn it all into making a buck type of thing (and you can do that also) you will need to get some catalogues, some specialized knowledge and do some studying and look out for forgeries and fakes and bad dealers and buyers too.

Number two: Please have respect for old eyes and creaky necks and use a software program that deals with photo editing and crop and rotate your photos so they are upright so easier to see. Use Windows photo editor or doenload Picassa from Google (free) or GIMP for free or Irfanview for free. Stamps that are sideways are worth less. lol

You can go back and flip your scans around so they are upright also by editing your previous post by clicking on the edit icon above the post, the one that looks like a pen and paper.

The backs of the stamps have to be OK also. If they are thinned, have a rip, tear, crease, scrape, paper missing, reapired, all devalue the stamp, some considerably.

Do not think it is worth $100 just because it looks like the other stamp. Nope. There are subtle differences that sometimes you need a magnifying glass or loupe to see or to measure the difference in the perfs (perforations) or the paper type or the colour of the stamp.

If the paper has been attacked by mold (rust, toning, mould) that is a major devaluing and most would not want that stamp in their collection as the molds will spread and ruin other stamps over the years.

Now, knowing all that stuff I talked about above is hard to do and usually takes years before you know it all and have experienced it. You might never experience some things. You may be as happy a two pigs in a puddle just collecting a few stamps here and there that catch your fancy or that seem good investments (be careful of that word with stamps) or to just own them so you can look at them once in a while.

As for selling, look on ebay for example, and search for a specific country's stamps and see what is selling and how they talk about them and whether they sell or not (look at the completed listings). Or ho to a stamp show or stamp club meeting Stuff is sometimes selling for 10% of catalogue.

The mint (post office fresh) stamps I see on your pages are not worth as much as mint stamps with no hinges attached to attach them to pages. Mint Never Hinged or MNH on ebay. Otherwise they are the MH or MLH Mint Lightly Hinged or even MHH Heavily hinged.

Read in te front of a catalogue for terms and grading of stamps.