New To Stamp Collecting, Inherited A Good Size Collection And Need Help

Hello,

I'm new here and also new to stamp collecting as I inherited a good size collection along with a good size coin collection that had been collected by a gentlemen who collected for over 70 years and now it fell into my lap and now I just been learning about coins and stamps but started with the coins first and now stamps and was hoping if anyone can tell me anything about some of the stamps I took photos of and this just being 1% of the entire collection but any help would be much appreciated here's a couple but I have way more then this.

Thank you!

Welcome aboard Empresive

From the photos, you have a general collection of mostly common material but it's a good start to build a good collection for yourself!

Did you inherit any catalogues or just stamps?

Welcome,
I concur with Bobby De La Rue, looks like a good start on a new hobby! part of the fun of stamp collecting is learning and working through some of the details of identifying the many varieties of stamps with a similar design. Perforations, watermarks, paper types and design details are often key characteristics needed to understand the different between a penny stamps and a higher value stamp.
If you do not have any catalogs there are plenty of online resources, like this community and Stamp Smarter http://stampsmarter.com which can help you learn more about this great hobby.
To get the most help here, please consider scanning one stamp at a time with any perforation and watermark info in the US sections of the forum.
Don

What you do rather depends on where your interest lies. At present, this isn't really a "collection", but an accumulation of material that has been sorted to a degree. If you want to start a stamp collection, the next step would be properly to sort the material, setting aside the duplicates etc. If you don't want to pursue this, you may be looking at a gift to a young, prospective collector or a low-start sale on ebay.

Clean looking starter collection and one of the longest sentences I think I've ever read.

That's because too few Americans read Faulkner any more!

Oh no this isn't my collection just a part of it I have tons more and full sets as well of countrys

Lol shermae about the longest sentence I just got what you mean by that hahaha but typing on phone sucks.

Anyway this pictures I first posted was just a little book of many from my collection. This collection was put together by man who collected coins and stamps and other stuff for over 60 years and lucky me I ended up with his coins and stamps collection which both are very big and learning as much as I can instead of selling it all off. Here's my coin collection I also inherited with stamps.

WOW - have fun!

Empresive -- Holy Smokes!

I sincerely hope that you are up to the challenge confronting you, should you choose to accept it, of appreciating the gentleman's collection of a lifetime which I think you may be lucky to have acquired, which the several photos of the stamp stock books pages that you generously provided for us indicates a seemingly total disregard, may I say even abhorrence, for any attempt at organization other than the obvious adherence to the display of the stamps facing forward, so that a viewer may at least gaze upon the intended subject images rather than the unprinted rear of the stamps, so, yes, that at least may indicate the collector's acquiescence to that modicum of organizational discipline, although we have nothing offered thus far to satisfy our curiosity if the collection may exhibit what could be regarded as more conventionally acceptable categorizing, which, however we should not deride or disparage but rather we should respect as the original collector was maintaining his hoard in a matter which was satisfactory for his needs, not trying to influence any of us who may be less able to accept the premiss that the enjoyment of one's lifetime love of his hobby is a deeply personal thing.

If the original collector made a conscious decision to pass his hoard intact to you, he must have seen something in the way you conduct yourself or respected something about you which made him content to let you have them. That was probably a mighty decision for him to make. Respect that.



Gosh, I would like to sit down for an afternoon with those coins! (But, that's for the coin forum.)

not any more :)

It appears that you are 'rolling your own'...

It would be wise to not smoke around this stuff, it will retain the smell.
Don

Lol 51studebaker you had me laughing hard, yes I'm a roller but yeah I don't smoke around them. Anyway yes I spent a year so far going through this massive amount of coins which is about 30% of the collection that is displayed in the photo and I have learned so much since I started and I really enjoy it but now it's time for me to start learning stamps so I can understand what there is in the collection. I was very lucky to inherit these collections and instead of selling it all off instead im wanting to pick up where he left off as these collections took the original collector a lifetime to put together and I want to respect that. Anyway I'm so lost on where to start with stamps. I did peek through it and there is just to many stamps and albums and envelopes to go through but I will be posting more pictures for the stamps I think could be valuable I mean you ain't going to collect for 60 years and not having anything good. Just like with the coins every time I search through the coins I'm always finding treasure and I'm sure the stamps will be same way.

Yea I figured I wouldn't smoke around them tho not just because the smell but could start a fire easy.

Empresive, Your overview photo of the stamp area shows that there are indeed albums there. If you could provide photos of the first few pages of the early U. S. stamps in a couple of those albums it might give us an idea of what you have there! I would be interested to see the pages from the U. S. Plate Blocks album if any pre - World War ONE are in there.

It appears that the previous owner accumulated these, did a certain amount if sorting, but didn't turn them into a unified collection - good luck if you have a go at that. If you're interested, I'd work through them gradually, perhaps starting with any loose material, and group countries, then designs etc. By the way, the idea of plodding through stamps without smoking fills me with horror. My preference is Pueblo, with American Spirit as a back-up.