Need Value: Polish Warship Garland

Hi my name is Adam
I am currently working on my mother's extensive stamp collection and trying to value them.

Currently, we are struggling to determine the value of the following stamp I anyone can help it would be much appreciated.

It is a brown horizontal stamp from Poland depicting the warship Garland.
The following picture I found is from google images of the same stamp



also depending on the success of this I will most probably be posting more stamps I am struggling to value.

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Have you looked in the Scott catalog? Or the Stanley Gibbons? Check your local public library.

no I have only as of yet tried online methods I am completely new to stamps so was unaware of the Scott catalogue etc but I will try would record of a polish stamp be in my local library
thank you for your help though paul

You will need to do a large amount in research and learning in how to grade a stamp to determine value. Also, knowing how to use a catalogue and what the values given really mean is a challenge. Scott is the go to postage stamp catalogue in the U.S. Scott numbering of stamps is how collectors communicate. Most stamps are really worth a small fraction of catalogue value.

Just noticed Great Britain. Yes, Stanley Gibbons would be the catalogue for you.

1970 Polish issue SG 2012 Catalogues at under 50p sterling

Since you're in the United Kingdom, you might find Stanley Gibbons catalogues at your local library instead of Scott's. Scott's is U.S. based.

thank you for all your help I will take on board the advice given will certainly look into the methods mentioned in this article thank you bamra also for the estimate you have given

Adam your stamp is Poland Scott catalogue number 1762. It is part of a set of three stamps Scott #1760-1762. It was issued Sept.25,1970 and has a "catalogue" value of .25¢ in my aging 2006 catalogue. This is where a large amount of knowledge is required to know the "grade/condition" of the stamp and what catalogue value really means. Stamps generally are worth far less than "catalogue" value. You can see what stamps actually sell for on ebay or stamps to go. Here is a link to an on-line catalogue (not Scott numbers) but you now know the year to see the stamp and their retail selling price.

https://www.stampworld.com/en/

Took me so long to write I now see good advice from the Stanley Gibbons folks. They are quite correct.

This is from the heyday of Polish "wallpaper" stamps, the communist bloc stamp factories churned out issue after issue of large colourful stamps aimed at stamp collectors. Every Polish stamp collector has numerous copies of stamps from this era & their market value is zero or less, you can't give them away.

An excellent English online resource for Polish stamps is Ben Nieborg's site

http://www.stampspoland.nl/