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I believe they are all precancels except the first, 3rd (pair) and last stamps in the last row of the second picture. The first and 3rd are , I believe parcel post cancels and the last is what appears to be an oval "killer" cancel. |
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Some of these are not in great condition, Should I hang on to them or find a project and use them? |
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If you collect stamps, keep them, if you invest in stamps loose them to someone that does collect them. I will take them off your hands if you are going to throw them away. |
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Quote: Should I hang on to them or find a project and use them? Check ebay, you may be surprised. I collect (as many do) US precancels, and they command surprising prices sometimes. You could put them up for auction / sale here. |
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I'm a stamp collector and would never use the undamaged stamps for some other purpose. I'm just not sure what to do with damaged, torn stamps, do people collect common damaged stamps? |
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On first blush it looks like common material in not so great condition. If they were mine, I would toss the damaged stamps, keep the ones (in good condition) that that fill holes in my collection, and pass the rest on to another collector or donate them. YMMV.
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I would put them into the collection good or damaged (if the damaged item fills a void in the collection). You can always replace it later when you run across another issue with the same pattern. |
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I collect stamps on which I can identify the place of cancel. Since precancels can/could have been made to order for collecting rather than real postal purposes, I puzzled over including them in my collection. Being almost unable to turn away anyplace I didn't already have, I finally decided to include precncels in my collectin as space-fillers until I could get the place with a real postal cancel that was identifiable and readable. |
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