Trusty Packets Unopened From FG

Do I open them to place the stamps in an album or display the packets intact unopened? These are packets no. 665,687,671,630,643,621,604,&697, maybe more I'm still going through everything. I do not know what years these came out. I just don't want to destroy a valued package to receive some stamps I could easily get these days.

Picture would help. Like these? Usually low value just fun.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/lot-collect...0831562542?h

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Internation...h=item2cae2a

the picture is from my phone, apologies. I have no date.

Interesting as I have not seen British packets before being US based.

More info to wake up some old memories.
Trusty Packet FG series sold in England in the Woolworth's department store. By Frank Gooden?

These are from the 1940's. I would leave the little treasures unopened.

Very nice redwoodrandy. I do like the packets myself, it's like keeping a gift and never opening it.

Thank you again.

I would leave vintage packets like this intact. The stamps all look very common... the packets likely have more value than the stamps in them.

Oh my, nostalgia or what. My local Woolies in Ealing had a stamp counter, it would be 1963/64. I bought my first stamp collecting "kit" there - stamps, album etc. They had stamp packets such as the ones above, even bags of kiloware though I never did buy one, a bit scared/suspicious of what was inside...

My local stamp dealer, since retired, used to attend various and sundry marhshall sales in Texas whenever there was one that had a large selection of stamps and/or coins, and would come back with his vehicle chock full.

About 20 years ago, he came back with a set of metal file drawers, roughly 5x7 dimensions, packed with sealed packets from the 1950s-60s, sorted in alphabetical order by country. They weren't like the ones above, but rather 50, 100, 300, 500 mixed of a given country. An absolute treasure trove. Unfortunately he was only able to get the front half of the alphabet; he was outbid on the other half.

After he started getting bored with the mass involved, he consented to sell various countries unsearched. I wound up with France, Italy, and Japan. I think I still have a bunch of them floating around somewhere, as I only gave them cursory searches at the time, pulling out only things that jumped out at me as being valuable. I need to go through them again with a more nuanced eye.

While many of the stamps were indeed common, there were a number of $5-$50 items to be found, occasionally the $100+ item, especially in the France packets.

I'll see if I can dig some up and scan them.

Thirty or forty years ago people would still spend time searching for US 1920's and 1930's packets; occasionally they would contain a rare W/F that no one had yet recognized. It didn't happen very often, but that's part of why packets from that era don't show up any more.

What strikes me now looking at these is how expensive they were for the time. 6d went a long way in the sweet-shop for a small boy or girl in the 50s and early 60s!

Like YeaPolska, my stamp-collecting began in Woolies when my old man bought me a little album and some stamps. I sat happily on his knee as we put them in. I particularly liked the gummed ones, which could be licked and stuck in with no need for a hinge ...