Inherited Lifelong Collection - What Now?

Thanks Buffalow ,it would be funny if it wasn't so truthful. But a lot of readers don't like that kind of postings .

I love the concept of giving the children a key to the vault, but not revealing its whereabouts. Plainly a woman who's read King Lear. Wouldn't like to have so little faith in my own daughter, however!

About the first suggestion to sell to the guy who specializes in British Commonwealth: Even if the guy is honest, the offer will be low because he will only be a middleman if the collection is US as he will turn around and sell it to another dealer.

Part of what floortrader said was satire, but part of it is flat out the truth.

"Just an unorganized accumulation of first day covers, plate blocks, sheets, etc. collected over a period of ninety years. I believe some of them have autographs that are somehow relevant to the item"

Unorganized is not good.

First day covers will depend on whether they are addressed or not and whether they have a cachet (picture on left sife) or not, but unless they get back into the 30's or 20's there is a big oversupply of them and they are worth very little (unless they are from a better cachet maker).

Plate blocks and sheets after WWII are also in big oversupply and virtually all of them are bought by dealers as discount postage for well below face value.

An autograph might help, but it would depend on who they were.

if the stamps are blue, they may be worth 500$

This doesn't make sense.