Help With Stamp Collection

Hi all, now I'll admit I really don't know anything about stamps, but I recently recieved a gift of stamps from my friend and I'd like to post a picture of the collection on this forum. I'm not looking to sell these anytime soon, but I would love to know if the estimated value is around $10 or less or over $10, so down the road l can have a clue as to what I should be doing with these. Apologies if I come off as being rude, but honestly I just don't know anything about stamps and any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you all for your time.

Welcome to the forum Portsmouth

I would say that there is over $10.00 alright. There are some 'cinderella' stamps in the lot that look interesting too and some of those can be of value as well.

The main thing though is condition, Just make sure that the stamps you intend to sell in the future are in good shape w/o thins or missing perfs etc.

Hope this helps?

Chimo

Bujutsu

OK, thank you very much Bujutsu for checking out my stamps.

To sell them, first you have to identify each one. Here is a website that will help.

http://www.theswedishtiger.com/ID.html

You can also get a "Scott Specialized Catalog of United States Stamps" from your local library to see if one source has information the other doesn't.

To find out what they are worth, do an ebay search for auctions that have ended for a stamp and you will see the range of what it sold for hopefully. If not keep trying if you don't find your stamp. Something will come up eventually.


Hope this helps
-IBFS

Wow its hard to follow with all the countries mixed up like that but definatly $10++. Couple revenues I believe the 1 is russian that I've never seen before and looks interesting and as said above the cinderellas may be of interest. Wilkie for president is another I've never seen and also an interesting expo label from geneve. Be curious what others have to say but definatly try and seperate at least by country if possible.

As with any collectable, condition is everything. That said, you have a mixture of common and uncommon stamps from all over the world.

If this lot were listed on ebay, exactly like you have presented here, I would estimate $50 - $75 for the whole lot.

Brian

If you pull out the damaged, and identify the others properly, and offer 10 to 15 lots instead of a mixed hodge-podge, you should easily net $100, or higher. There are some potentially valuable items there, but we need larger brighter pictures. Ditch the camera phone and use a scanner, even a cheap one, if available; scan 4 rows of 4 at a time (remove the damaged first), with a scan area of about 5 x 5 inches, not the entire scanner glass 8 x 11 inches. That will give much better results. Then we can zero in, item by item. The "80-20" rule probably applies here -- 80% of the value is in 20% of the stamps.

I concur (as usual) with Rileysans statement. Theres a few possible diamonds in the rough but as 1 lot they would be lost. Look forward to better scans.