Help A Newbie Out

Hey guys, I recently rescued a couple of folders of stamps from being thrown away during a home tear-down, and I was wondering if anyone knows what they are exactly. There are some 1984 usps yearly commemorative stamps, 1980-1981 Unicef Flags of the World, and these stamped, embossed, first release envelopes from the 80 Olympics. Does anyone know whether these are significant? I have 43 Olympic envelopes in total, and can share more pictures if needed. Thanks!

Welcome aboard,

Olympic enemies?

Terry

*envelopes
Sorry, new phone, auto correct still needs some taming :)

Those covers [stamped envelopes] sell for $1.00 each and dealers buy them for 10 or 20 cent each ..Welcome this this board CCHAVEZ

I have an iPhone just like that. It puts words I don't want into my writing.

Terry

Floortrader is right. They are covers of little value or interest to anyone but a collector. I would suggest mailing them to the APS. They have a charity to help young collectors. Here is the address...

Young Stamp Collectors of America Club
100 Match Factory Place
Bellefonte PA 16823
Attn: Janet Houser

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God Bless
-IBFS

Thanks, guys! There were an awful lot of other things in there, loose stamps, a good amount of full sheet 80-81 Unicef Flags of the World, and lots of foreign coins. The man who passed away did not have any family to care for him, and when he did go, some "family" members basically came into the house, took/stripped everything of value even down to the copper pipes. Seems like they went out of the way to throw out the things he really held onto. We purchased this house as a renovation, and I happened to find these things in the trash cans. I am not interested in the value, so much as the sentimental value these things had to a lonely man. I don't have a use for them, because I'm not a collector...but I'm willing to donate to the foundation listed above! Sounds like a great way to keep his spirit going! The coins, on the other hand, are too neat to lose. There are circulated coins from all over the world, including a 1920 silver buffalo nickel and a 1917 Australia King George silver shilling. Interesting stuff!

I'm very impressed with how kind-hearted you are to respect what this departed collector might have wanted. You know for sure that it wasn't for his collections to end up in the trash!

Have fun with the coins! Notice that in the upper left-hand corner of this site is a link to a companion site of coin collectors.

Ditto. You were wise enough to take something like this out of the trash, something that in your mind might have been of value, and look into it. Salute!.


-IBFS

Thanks for the APS address. I have a few items from a recent box lot that I received from NY Stamps that I don't need. Some United States stamps on heavy stock cards with FDC's and about 100 Belgium "Q" stamps on some type of tax form? I will package them up next week.