Please Help Me. Advice. Or?

To start off I was not a stamp collector before I got this collection. I've had them over a year. Every time I pull them out I get overwhelmed by mass amounts of them and the small differences for each one would take a very long time for a beginner to go through them. So I just put them back feeling like I've got $100,000 or more of stamps, but then there's the possibility they're worth nothing more than few hundred. I've been feeling like a millionaire long enough and it's time to find out. I have some extra time now I can spend. Any and all help or advice on what I should do next will be appreciated.
I have 6-7. Albums, 75% fullish. With some loose envolopes , cards with slots. They all date from the first stamp made to about the 50s. When it looks like the collector stopped collecting, and the box it was taped up in looked like it wasn't tough since the 50s either. I'm going to do one album per post with pics I thought were possible valuables. If you want me to take more pics of others stamps let me kno. This album is one of the fuller ones or with what I thought to be higher value stamps. Album is a huge regent album,it would take me forever to take pics of all pages. Estimate 10,000 stamps pretty 55 but not real sure
. I'm using a tablet to upload pics may be limited temp

I would start by showing the oldest stamps first.

your going to find that most of the stamps have little value, the real question is do you have some real valuable ones hidden in there.
You will have to do some work to find out.

I'm having issues with uploading photos on here. I have near a thousand stamps most are us. That are pre 1910

I have a capital United states album. 1st page hand written. 2b.red type 425. Looking at dates I have well over a couple thousand. Pre 1910.

My understanding that stamps are numbered. 1st stamp #1 2nd #2, so on... I have 11, 26; 88, 65; 73, 156,158, I'm stopping there just in case I'm way off next to those numbers is like 08, .04, .14 is that perforation

Rubblekrats, welcome to this forum. We love to help you, but without pictures it will be difficult.
One way around it is to go to your local library and borrow a Scott catalog. Most libraries either have a set or can get it. A helpful website would be www.stampworld.com to help find your way around and get a feel of the value of some of your stamps.
In the meantime maybe you can work on the uploading of scans or photos a bit!

Peter

It is hard to believe, rubblekrats, but even in the old days, stamps were printed in large quantities, so even most 19th Century stamps are of unremarkable commercial value ... interesting, evocative, worthy of a place in The World of Stamp Collecting, but don't quit your day job just yet.

Learning enough to learn what you have is gonna take hours & hours but, fortunately, you only have to do one stamp at a time.

If you are the sort of person who enjoys the journey, you are in luck!

You can start identifying US stamps at:

http://www.stampsmarter.com/1847usa/

http://www.kenmorestamp.com/us-stamp-identifier

http://www.theswedishtiger.com/ID.html

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

I will work on scans. It won't take long. The stamps are already identified most have handwritten description. And I look them up and the values are well over $200 a stamp some over $1000.00. now that I'videntified stamp. And looked at sites like mystic that ask $400 worst condidtion on stamps I have a abundance of in some better condition. Ifigure %10 of what they sell for they buy for?

Ten percent of list value is probably a fair estimate, except for the time when you have a real prize stamp.

If you have a US Scott number 11, for instance, a lot will depend on its condition, but even an early stamp like this one is only worth 20 dollars or so if used.

EDIT: Typo corrected.

KGB, do you mean Scott #10? Scott #11 or 11A have a standard catalog value of only $15 or so, and are much more common than 10 and 10A.

Good Lord, yes! Thank you for pointing out my typo. I meant twenty dollars!

For your most bang for the buck, start with images of anything that you think you've found to have catalogue values of $200 to $1,000.

I had to laugh when I read that.

@rubblekrats, may I ask you how you acquired this "collection".

Stamps after 1960..With US Stamps,a few modern versions of the Prominent American Issues, 1966-68 can bring nice values.
For examples:
the 5 cent gray brown of Franklin D. Roosevelt with Rotary Press, a pair with full horizontal or vertical with gutter between. it is unwatermarked. can be over 100 dollar cat range.

With the Coil stamps, of 1967-75, and imperforated pair of the the Franklin D. Roosevelt, 5c gray brown Scott #1298 (a) is 1000.00 range.
the position is horizontal.
1966-78 in the Vertical position, Scott #1299, The Thomas Jefferson 1 cent green, with imperforated pair or joint line pair, Scott #1303, Abraham Lincoln, imperforated pair or joint line pair, Scott #1304 George Washington 5 cent blue, imperforated pair or joint line pair, and Gray Brown imperforated pair. All these stamps can be hundred of dollars in Scott Cat. range.

Best Wishes! hope you have many treasures in your books!

Blazenstar

Another one from the 1960: SEATO Issue. It was issued in honor the South East Asia Treaty Organization and to publized the SEATO conference in Washington DC. The vertical pair, imperforated between, including unwatermarked..is valued few hundred dollars.