Suggestions On Where To Sell A Large Collection

Greenlant408:

My opinion (as a long time collector and someone who has served as a Trustee in the disposition of a stamp collection worth over $750,000):

1. Get your collection back from the investment company
2. Find and talk to at least three auction houses (see below) and get three estimates on them for value and how they would handle it.
3. Auction houses regularly do this and they know how to handle it--and even though they will charge you a fee on success only, their interests would be aligned to maximize the proceeds. You will need to ask each one whether they want to come see the collection person to assess it; or they may require scans of every page

Regency is good (someone above recommended them). They bought Superior in Los Angeles (so you can contact them more easily than St Louis).
I would also recommend Cherrystone in New York (Paul Buchsbayew)
Lastly, Apfelbaum in Philadelphia

I would not use Colonial in Los Angeles.
or in Los Angeles

I hope this works for everyone to see the pics of the Columbian proofs

http://s850.photobucket.com/user/Gr...ian%20Proofs

it seems to work, I will be posting other sets as I get them until I can get my collection back

Oh, MK I have a very LARGE collection of GI Joe's LOL (not for sale)

and no relation to the minority leader. Hall is my adopted name.

Those certs are pretty much useless and I might even think of not mentioning them. A real cert from an established company certainly would have mentioned if they were India paper or card plate proofs but not even a mention.

There is a value difference between the Two so I'd suggest before putting them up for sale I'd find out which ones they are.

Stallzer beat me to it.....
"Those certs are pretty much useless and I might even think of not mentioning them. A real cert from an established company certainly would have mentioned if they were India paper or card plate proofs but not even a mention."
Easy to tell when seen but a cert states that.

stallzer, so what do I do now with these stamps and how do I myself find out if they are India paper or card plate?

If anyone would mind helping, I have a request. Could someone find prudent information to validate Stanford Myers?

This is for everyone's benefit so we all can get a picture of the company.

Kevin, can you tell by the pictures which one they are?

greenlant408, you mentioned Mystic stamps in a post. I myself would never consider selling to them, and I believe that most folks on this forum would agree. Good luck!

Not selling, I think it may have been where some of the stamps were bought from. The names sounds familiar that's all. It was so long ago that they were bought.

Hello Greenlant408
With all due respect to ebay and other online auctions, disposing of a $100K investment collection is definitely not a "do it yourself" project. There are some very fine auction houses in Canada and the USA who could do a great job with top quality material. I agree that they may have higher fees, but they also have their own network of clients (and that is worth something). In my opinion, selling a high quality collection through professionals will always get a better net result with a lot less work and worry. Look around and talk to one or two of the key players ..... it may save you from making some bad mistakes.
Good luck
GJP

Manta profile for Stanford Myers Investment Group, Inc.

A business entity search on the Nevada Secretary of State website turns up two results for Stanford Myers Investment Group, Inc. - one of which is listed as "terminated (admin hold)" as of March 13, 2007.

According to the website:


Interestingly, the other listing shows that the Articles of Incorporation were filed on March 14, 2007, and that the business license for that entity has expired. (The main search page shows a status of "revoked" for this entity.) This is only a guess, but it looks as though perhaps the corporation is no longer in good standing because it didn't file an annual report that was due March 31, 2011.


Totally random: the Nevada Secretary of State is kinda creeping me out.

24 more post to go and I can post pictures (when I get them)

Sorry to be sarcastic but I need some humor right now, this is a lot more involved than I imagined

Thanks to everyone with their suggestions, comments and help on how to do all of this.