Need Some Help To Evaluate My Collection

hi all.
we have a relatively large stamps collection in our family,i am trying to estimate it,
but I am lacking of basic knowledge in stamps,so it take me lots of time of research.
some of them are also in language that I don't understand,so it makes it even harder...
i could really use your help here,i know most of stamps are not worth much so,if someone is able to just take a brief look and see if something will "shine out" from the photos, so I could know what to focus on,and if its even worth the time of trying to get a professional estimate and sell it?
i uploaded a file of all the photos,any help will be appreciated.
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Hi, your link is in Indian or whatever .... anyway I fire it in VM for safety purpose and I quick check your pics and see nothing of value.

its in heabrew,sorry. I will try to uploaded it to another server. it contain 93 photos, 300mb,so its more easy in one file than one by one.

Don't loose too many time on this, it's all very common stamps,

all the colection or the russian samples?

All, the US , UK, Canada , France Hungary ( magyar ) are very common

many german I see there,worth somthing? also from italy, japan/china
thanks for the help.

Count all them, take a picture of all the lot and put on ebay with a low starting price, you will see, don't expect that much


if you have 300 as exemple list them as something like this " World lot of 300 classics stamps...."

thank you. prefer not to sell something I don't know its value (+-)
that's why I am asking here... will not sell it at all if its not worth much.
(not that I am expacting any thing... I know its a throw in the dark)

ea21, stamp collectors with as much experience as area66 usually can identify the more valuable stamps at least from the countries they collect.
I am focused on the older classic US stamps and despite not being an expert, I can now identify many of the more rare and valuable stamps.
I think area66 has given you good advice. He is a knowledgeable collector and he recognizes the stamps you posted as common types.
ebay is an inexpensive marketplace for the sale of stamps. I sold my world wide stamp pages several years ago by posting pages for one or several countries in each sale. That way collectors who are interested in Russia, or Columbia, can respond. Best of luck!

Welcome.

The general message for non-collectors is that the value of a collection is very often a lot lower than someone assumes. It is always tough to give this news to heirs who assume they are about to make big money off of an inherited stamp collection.

The person who assembled your collection didn't seem to have much in the way of organization beyond the basic separation into countries. From the pictures you've provided, there isn't much evidence of an attempt to keep in any chronological order, or to build sets.

A rough rule of thumb used by many collectors when buying old albums is two cents per stamp. An album with 2,000 stamps would be a $40 album in that scenario. (The album itself generally doesn't figure much into the equation.)

A dealer won't go anywhere near that high on a purchase, unless the dealer spots some significant stamps in there when doing a thirty-second flip through the album.

It isn't really possible to give accurate drive-by assessments.

Sometimes the differences between a $1 stamp and a $20 stamp aren't easily detectable...sometimes the difference between a $20 stamp and a $600 stamp can't be identified by a scan, at all.

Then you have specialist matters, like desirable postmarks/cancels, watermarks, flaws or perforations.

Often, out-of-the-ordinary values are only readily recognizable by specialists, and you only become a specialist by spending a lot of time looking at stamps.

So, a generalized assessment of "they look ordinary" is what it is. They look ordinary...but one or another might not be ordinary. That's just the way it is with stamps. Almost all of them are ordinary. A tiny percentage are not.

A treasure that a seller overlooked could be discovered by someone who has taken the time to get a specialized education. That's life. Someone else always knows more...


You could always keep them and start to build your own collection.

thank you all for you comments. dcaraz1949, area66 ,Cjd

cjd,
i understand that knowledge is power. but expect for honesty from humans,as I am trying to be honest too, in fields that I know more than others... any way,
i thought the small details can be seen through images. that's why I asked.
I may go and check them with a professional. I am not so much interested in the field so I don't have much interest to continue collecting them... but who knows what the featrue bring..
thanks.

For the purposes of my comments, I'm assuming honorable intentions by all parties.

My point is simply that for some stamps, with some characteristics, I can post a very large image of a stamp, big enough to fill the screen, and still no one could tell me whether it was valued at $10 or $1,000. That's not because the viewers are uninformed; you just might not be able to determine the valuable characteristic from a scan. Even a really good one. Imagine how much more difficult it is to make blanket judgments off of small images with dozens of stamps.

In my example, I'm thinking of British Commonwealth stamps that have a massive premium if the paper's watermark is inverted. You can almost never tell that from a scan.

The number of perforation holes can make a huge difference.

The town shown on the postmark can be a big deal. Even after 100 years, there are thousand of early post offices where we don't yet have a picture of the postmark. They are probably out there, sitting in albums or envelopes where the current owners don't know or care to look.

The type of paper can be important.

How the stamp reacts when you shine a UV light on it can be important. And on and on and on.

There are all kinds of things that can make a stamp special, many of which are not readily apparent. Someone who looks at a bunch of stamps and says, "there is nothing valuable there" probably means "they look common and they probably are common." And they are probably right. At least, the odds are in their favor.