Help - Antique Stamp Collection - Possible Valutaion

Hello friends, I am moving house and looking through some drawers I came across an antique world stamp collection I inherited from my father, shared at this dropbox link, viewable to anyone:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/bdnatyyb...FWxh5Za?dl=0

Anyone who would care to peruse and share their valuable knowledge would be very appreciated, thank you so much.

All the best,
George Turner

Hello, welcome to the board. While I'm not familar with every stamp on your drop-box link, the ones I am familar with are very common and basically worth very little to nothing monetarily. Some of them are very interesting historically. The German stamps you have pictured above, for example, are from 1922-23 when they were going through a hyper-inflation period. It caused considerable economic hardship on the German people and contributed to the rise of Nazism. But these are some of the most common stamps there are. In terms of their monetary value to other collectors, they're basically worthless. They regularly turn up in penny stamp packets and they are not hard to find. Again, there are some stamps in your pictures that I'm not familiar with because I don't collect those areas, but my suspicion is that they are similar in value. It's unlikely that a collection like you have pictured would contain valuable stamps, but you never know. Enjoy them for what they are - a tangible piece of another time and place in history.

Hello Artful Hinger,
Thank you for your very helpful reply, and for kindly taking the time to look over the collection. May you have a great summer.

All the best,
George

I'm not an expert in such, but the very first Christmas Seal in your collection may have some value (up to $10 ??).

As Artful pointed out, most are of common variety and low value, but still a neat little collection. Why not keep it, add to it, or pass it on to an interested party? Good luck.

I looked through your pix and didn't see anything jump out at me. The album is (really, really) rough, but the stamps are still salvageable. If you have any family members that might be interested in taking up the hobby, this would make for a good starter collection (especially a child). In spite of the fact it has little to no value, there's a lot of history there.

Brian

The German hyper-inflation overprints (overprinted 1 million and 2 million marks) are discussed in a chapter of Chris West's book "A History of Britain in Thirty-Six Postage Stamps." Reading that chapter, which is an easily accessible popular history, is a good introduction to how stamps and history are intertwined.

Thank you to all in the kind and knowledgeable stamp community family, what a wonderful resource available to all. Keep on with the good work.

All the best,
George

Your Christmas Seals collection is neat. Not much value there, but can be worth $30-50 on ebay. Your stamp album have some interesting stamps, but again, nothing of a much value, maybe $20-40 on ebay? I didn't look closely, but some of the stamps in your collection may have varieties forth some $$$, but chances are as slim as winning the lottery, 1 in thousands.

I see a few decent Italian stamps in there too

Some pretty nice stuff in there, though I couldn't tell you anything about value. I'm quite partial to your Christmas seals as well. The older ones are quite lovely.
I would get them out of that album right away though. The paper is deteriorating and looks to be taking a couple of the stamps with it. There's some staining on a few of them.

georgelelandturner - A retired teacher and confirmed but always moderate stamp collector since the age of 5, I was so fascinated to read the then up-to-date, highly educational characteristics of the stamp-issuing countries in your album dating back to the mid-1930s that I started a new topic called "A Great 'Great-Depression' Stamp Album for Teenage Beginners" on 06/22/2015, referring to this post of yours.

I also posted a similar message on the Vintage Postage Stamp Album thread of the Stampboards forum.

Although read by some 230 members of the SCF forum and about the same number on the Stampboards, no reply has been received so far.

Small wonder as stamps from beginner's albums used to be rehoused and the emptied-out and torn starter albums got thrown away.

So yours appears to be a fragment of the particularly admirably well-done thing that hardly anyone will have preserved. Moreover, yours is an album retaining a sample of what was available to an unpretentious stamp-collecting beginner in Massachusets in those years.

Pity the first 50 pages as well as pp. 116-119, mostly reserved for the U.S.A., are missing and the text on pp. 52, 67, 73, 77, 82, 86, 100, 104, 112, 120 and the following pages, if preserved, cannot be read in full.

You do not happen to have any remnants of the missing pages that would help to complete the picture and identify the author of the text or the publisher, do you?

Odd to see one Bermuda stamp when all the rest are German or Austrian. It would be interesting to know who this belonged to. Not much value, but a lot of someones time and love.