I Just Inherited 700 Irish & UK FDC In Mint Condition 1969 To 2004

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There will be exceptions, but, sadly, most modern FDCs are practically worthless, despite having been relentlessly pushed by post offices and others for the last fifty years. I recently struggled to get an average of 10p each for a job lot of a couple of hundred 1960s-1980s GB FDCs on ebay.

Hello Irelend-UK FDC, and welcome!
Have to agree with GeoffHa, I have been trying to move a lot of British FDC (that came with a collection I bought at auction) for a while now on ebay, with very limited success. A few may sell for about £1 each, and the odd one for £5 to £8, but they have to be really unusual to get that money.
Regards
DavidR

I agree with the others but can offer one local option. STAMPA, the Irish National Stamp Exhibition, is 6th to 8th October 2017 at the Griffith College Campus, South Circular Road, Dublin 8. See www.stampa.ie. You can take the whole lot there and talk to a couple of dealers. Consistent with the other posts here, I predict you will have no offers, or an offer of perhaps €50 for the lot. Dealers can only pay €0.01 to €0.05 per cover in bulk because they have to sell at a profit and the selling price will be €0.10 to €2.

Normally it is best to go in the afternoon, or on the 2nd or 3rd day. In the morning of the 1st day, dealers want to sell to others to make back their costs of attending, not buy from you.

FDC: A very tough sell. Donating/ gifting items.

cjpalermo's advice to go to STAMPA in Dublin, preferably on the last day when there are fewer buyers and dealers have sold some of their material and may be looking to replenish their stocks would be best. Also, his advice that you should not expect many if any offers to buy, even at very, very low prices such as the range he mentions. This sort of modern material was manufactured in huge quantities for an artificial "collectors" market and there is no shortage of it today since there are fewer collectors today than there were in the years that these were created. There is value in the older, "non-philatelically manufactured instant collectible" British and Irish stamps and postal history, especially material from the 1800s and earlier times, along with some material that has particular historical interest from the early 1900s. I would second Redwoodrandy's suggestion to donate these to an appropriate charitable organization such as disabled veterans or youth groups or such that have a stamp collecting activity for their beneficiaries. Depending on your tax laws, such donations can provide a greater financial return as a tax deduction than you would achieve through selling them.