Help With Stamp Collection

The prices of stamps are determined, like anything else, by supply and demand. The stamps you have were printed in large quantities and there aren't all that many collectors today who collect them. Most of those types of stamps regularly turn up in "penny packets" today. Even some stamps 130+ years old were printed in such large quantities that they're basically worthless today. There's really no hard and fast cutoff date between valuable and worthless stamps, but the majority of stamps that are worth much of anything are from before 1950 or even 1900. There aren't many stamps, percentage-wise, issued after about 1950 that have real world values of more than a a few dollars, and the vast majority are worth just pennies.

Definitely not a field for investment! Of course for that would require actually selling some of what I am hoarding!

in my Opinion Stamps collection is not feasible for investment, but only as a hobby, Only British, US, and Chinese stamps (Main Land) are good for investment other then these wont return much in term of profit.

Welcome to philately!

Just as many said your collection so far isn't worth much money but that fun is collecting itself. I do like the Chinese goldfish, I must say!

Agree with the other comments regarding the value of the collection and most of the used being CTO. One point not mentioned about CTO stamps is that once cancelled, they are sold to wholesalers and collectors at a fraction of face value. This is partly why they generally lack any real value as collectibles.

I've known a few collectors in my travels who actually prefer CTO stamps to postally used as the CTO stamps generally look nicer owing to light corner cancels and no exposure to the elements.

You have some nice topicals that could become a basis for expansion as you learn what kinds of stamps you like, or even the starter collection for a kid.