Horde Boxes

I hear of so many people having horde boxes of stamps, how do you get so many? I have one little shoe box and want more but mint cost to much for me to get more then a few at a time. Just trying to find better ways to get me some good stamps.

Do you collect (or accumulate) (or horde) USA or foreign or worldwide or certain countries?

Get 50 posts on SCF here and some members do give away stamps that they have extra to their needs.

Do you like kiloware (stamps on paper) or stamps off paper?

Do you like certain themes or topics?

The list goes on. Whatever you like.


I usually like a cartain thing for a while or two and then buy lots of tamps on ebay or elsewhaere and just use a few of them and have to move the remainde on or sell them.

And we all mostly just like to have stamps all around the place. They accumulate and call to other stamps and they get together and talk and watch me. I know they do. Aaaaaah.

Doug

How?

You buy them. Generally former hoards belonging to former hoarders!

To start, check the general collections and lots on ebay. Then check http://stampauctionnetwork.com/auct....cfm#Closing

Unless you inherit them or have them given to you, you buy them!

modern_who's reply also reminded me that you could, if close enough, go to or join a stamp collecting club and they usually have auctions and give-away's (depending) to help support the club or charities.

After about 40 years of "collecting", things just naturally start to accumulate. I'm always re-discovering batches, or small hoards of stamps that I bought a long time ago and put away "for a rainy day".

In my 40+ years of collecting, I have had different opportunities to buy different collections. Most of these were total collection where the owner would say, take all or nothing. So, I would end up taking all, hence the large accumulations.

Chimo

Bujutsu

Thanks all for your input. I guess I am doing exactly what I should be, just collecting and enjoying my collection. Guess it doesn't have to be hordes of boxes, just what ever a person likes. You all have good advice and looking thru the forum has been real helpful. I am liking it here.

Believe me, if you collect long enough, you will accumulate more than you think.

Carabop: if you're wanting an alternative to ebay, try the classified ads in the back of the weekly Linn's Stamp News; or the back of the monthly American Philatelist. I strongly recommend getting a membership in the APS ( www.aps.org ).

Thank you Steve I will check those all out.

Spain1850 is correct!! Even if you are a casual collector, you will end up with "stuff" in boxes...

It helps to tell people to save stamps for you from their mail... People then know you collect stamps and sooner or later they will "know someone" that has stamps. Go to a stamp auction if you can, or even an antique auction. Join a stamp club and join APS and sign up for dealers to send you ads. You will be able to build a horde in no time :)

i got stuck on the kiloware purchasing...it is the joy of the hunt but I do have too many of certain stamps...like the usa liberty bell...i must have about 3 or 4 shoe boxes of the bell...it is easy to start a hord...i am trying to decide what to do with many of my stamps..trading maybe..but I would be more generous on many of my stamps in trade

the easy way to get a hoard of stamps is to attend or bid over the phone at a Rasdale Stamp Auction .They have between 400 to 600 boxes up for auction four times a year. This is where N.Y.STAMPS buys a few hundred thousand of dollars at each auction and they have been doing it for over 10 years .I usually pick up a lot or two of the big boxes, just to have something to play with at night after a day out with a construction crew or while watching the football games on T.V.

I remember seeing some nice big boxes for sale at the American Philatelic Research Library (APRL) when I visited them in Bellefonte PA.

I'm not sure what I would do with four shoe boxes of liberty stamps. There is an idea I just can't think of it.
Tom