Worldwide Collecting And I !

i look at the 9 kind of worn Scott Internationals..that have been my friends for many years...they do not look like much..to anyone..a dealer would offer to buy them for a song..probably 75 or 100 dollars apiece..but if a collector browsed through them and saw the older Italy and Italian colonies and the British Empire stamps they would enjoy them..i think they should go to a stamp collector...thats it..they will be auctioned off at my club auction one day !

When your ready to let them go ,give me a notice ,i'll bid on them at any auction.You will do better with a private sale or a public auction house and not a local club .

Phil... why the thought of letting them go on the first day of a new year ?

Cheers
Ram

I would love to look at the stamps in your Internationals, as each one comes with a story and a history. That is what is so great about international collecting.

I concentrate on International Part I1840-1940 " Big Blue", but I have accumulated a lot of 1940 plus stamps. So Part II ant Part III are now on the shelves.

Why am I thinking about it on my birthday ? It just occurs to me that time waits for no man..the stamps are only temporarily in our possesion! Some of us have seen stamp albums in trash cans...i do not want that. I know people that have sent their collection to Dutch Country Auctions in Delaware and they do better than the offer the dealer gives them !

Me I don't care to who I sell a collection. When I decide to do it it's because I need fast cash and the fastest way to sell and get paid is with a dealer. One thing I don't like is to meet collectors that are long to decide. With the dealer I call to see if he's interested. If he is I go to meet him with an updated listing and get paid the same day. I don't get back all the money I spend on a collection but it's fast. If the dealer makes a good transaction with my collection and he has good potential buyers than when I 'm ready to buy from him he might make me a good offer. Anyway I never conceive stamp collecting as a way to be very profitable.

Passing forward the knowledge.

Here is how I deal with the above,
for all my "brothers in arms" whom still collect worldwide.

Rather, after going to the trouble of Identifying the "bits 'n pieces" we encounter
the "flotsam and the jetsam" of other collectors,
we have been known to just plonk 'em back into a Hagner, to be forgotten again.

Here is a tip, which you may wish to adopt.

Capture the enquiry page, and mount the piece alongside.

It's ugly, it's fractured, but when you get a few of these pages "back of book"
it makes fabulous reading.
Adds spice to the collection.

The next caretaker of your collection, is gonna love you.

Agree with auctioning on this Forum but we will need an idea of contents, not the containers !