Inherited Stamps-Want To Find Value-Not Sure How To Proceed

Recently inherited many foreign and U.S. stamps. Would like to find their value and sell. Not sure how to proceed. Appreciate advice.

A little more information would be helpful in determining how to proceed.
1. A bunch of loose stamps or stamps in albums?
2. What inclusive years to these stamps represent ... 1860-1970s for example?
3. What countries?
4. Used or unused, or both?
5. 100 stamps or 10,000 stamps or some number in between

You can look in any number of on-line stamp catalogs to get an idea of "catalog" value, but actual sales value is typically some discount from catalog value... say 40-60% depending on the stamp, its condition, new or used, etc.

If it is a large collection, you might want to ship it off to a dealer for an appraisal of value. I have never used a dealer for that purpose, but I have heard good things about http://www.stampbuyer-wisconsin.com/  Bill Robinson Auctions, Green Bay WI

If the stamps are in albums, scan and post pictures of the page with the earliest stamps for each of four or five or six countries,for example: Great Britain, France, Germany, Mexico, Denmark, Canada, or Russia.

A photograph of a page taken from some distance above the page will NOT work unless you manage to hold the camera perfectly parallel to the page (not at an angle) and manage to fill the frame of the picture with the page.

But you probably can't manage that, so scans are 100 times better than photos.

If all the stamps are from the United States, then scan the first two or three pages that have stamps on them and give us a summary of what years are the last years with stamps in them. Don't bother with scans of stamps after 1940, just say whether the pages from that period are half full, nearly full, have only a few stamps on them.

If the stamps are not in albums, describe how they are stored and roughly how many--a few hundred or many thousands--and the other questions Old Guy posed are also worth answering.

Then you might get an answer that's helpful.