Best Purchase?

What has been your best purchase (deal/bargain) of a Canadian Stamp?

The following is mine...



This was purchased from an off-paper worldwide box of stamps, 10 cents per stamp! When I got it I did not realize that it was in the catalog as Scott 143i - which in the 2009 Unitrade catalogs as $2,400. Not bad for a $0.10 purchase.

- stamporator -

Wow.
Beats my record.
Got any Newfies in the box?

That is a fabulous purchase and a beautiful stamp!

Beats mine as well and that was a fantastic find. My best buy was a complete set of the Canadian "Admiral" stamps MNH (except #116 the 10 cents plum). It had a CV then at $2002.00 and I won out at $75.00 Canadian for it.

Chimo

Bujutsu

I bought an old Minkus Canada alblum about a year ago that contained some decent mint copies of a number of stamps from 1897 through about 1980. Here's a few highlights of what was included in the alblum;
-Few Jubilees including the 20-cent #59.
-All the Quebec Tercentenary except the 20-cent #103.
-About half of a face set of Admirals, mostly the common stamps though.
-Everything but the 50-cent and 1-dollar values from the scroll and leaf issues.
-Then pretty much everything from the pictorial issue through about 1980.

I got the alblum in an auction at my stamp club for $75 which I was extremely happy about. I was able to upgrade a lot of stamps in my classic Canada pages and filled a few holes in the process. I stripped the alblum and put everything into my own collection and even sold the empty alblum at our meeting a few weeks later for $5. All in all it was a pretty decent purchase.

ummm...I can't come anywhere close to matching your deal.

I got a used E7 in some kiloware once. haha. see I told you I couldn't come anywhere close to matching you.

A couple years ago I came across an online auction that looked to be an entire estate. There was one stamp lot - a big box full of stuffed glassines, album pages, beginner looking albums, and otherwise miscellaneous looking junk. The auctioneer did post several random pictures of the stuff in the item description. There was little bidding and I won the lot for $40 - another $50 to ship it. When I received the box It took me two hours to look through everything. Most of it was common stuff and the condition of the stuff was poor overall. One of the last things I found at the bottom of the box was a 5x7 manilla envelope clearly marked "valuable stamps". By this time I was convinced there was nothing of value in this box of junk. The envelope contained about 100-150 of the key early US stamps including a nice complete set of the 1869 issues, several nice US #1's, and many other really nice stamps. Everything in the envelope was in excellent condition and mounted on mini Vario type pages. After finding the "good" stuff I went back and re-looked closely at everything. It looked even junkier the second time around.

I reckon my best was the cheap purchase of an Equatorial Guinea "meter" cover noted as "Extremely rare, value unknown" in the International Postage Meter Stamp Catalog - Its the only one that I have ever come across

I once bought a $4 bundle of 1960's era Canada stamps and to my extreme surprse found a US Scott C3a invert Jenny in mint disturbed gum condition. I think it was the vacuum cleaner copy as it was somewhat creased too. Maybe $300K now?

:)

Pics please! Unless you were being sarcastic.

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