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Help Determine The Value Of A Collection Of Stamps From Different Countries.

 
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Posted 04/13/2019   06:38 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Happy555 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Hello
I have legacy of a large number of stamps. My grandfather loved collecting them. All these marks are the times of the Soviet Union (USSR). In his collection there are both Soviet stamps and many foreign ones. Looking at the stamps, I understand that he actively corresponded and exchanged them with other countries.
Most of these stamps were inclined to beauty, events, famous people. There are no brands that are valuable due to the age of time. Stamp for him - it was a memory and a picture. After all, computers used to be nebylo.

Now it is long gone. Stamps are not my calling. In memory of him, I'm going to scan them on my computer, and sell the originals.

Naturally, I would like to have some idea of #8203;#8203;their value, and since I do not have much experience in stamps, I would be very happy with any help, including selling them.

Below I will present only a small part of the collection.

Tips, opinions about their values, etc. I will be very happy to hear.












































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Posted 04/13/2019   07:12 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add 51studebaker to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Welcome.
Unfortunately the market value of what you have shown is not significant; perhaps 8000-9000 KZT. The value of this group as a family heirloom far exceeds the small amount of money you might get by selling them. If they were mine and I was not interested in stamp collecting, I would save them for another family member in the future who might.
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Posted 04/13/2019   1:12 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add funcitypapa to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The value is zero monetarily but priceless if you like them and enjoy collecting
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Posted 04/13/2019   1:23 pm  Show Profile Check GeoffHa's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add GeoffHa to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
If you don't want them, I should put them on ebay at a low starting price. There is no point in keeping things in which you have no interest and which have no particular connection to you simply because your parents owned them.
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Posted 04/13/2019   1:28 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add 51studebaker to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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...There is no point in keeping things in which you have no interest and which have no particular connection to you simply because your parents owned them.


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I am mystified by your post, how in the would you know if someone else in your family may care about family heirlooms in the future...perhaps children or grandchildren?
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Posted 04/13/2019   2:33 pm  Show Profile Check GeoffHa's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add GeoffHa to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
There's no point in keeping things in which we have no interest simply because our parents owned them. Otherwise, we'd all be unable to move in our homes because of the accumulated junk of generations. I retain a few things that my parents owned because I like the articles and/or because there's a particular connection around the article between my parents and me. Keeping something of no interest to me because future generations might like it makes no sense. And what we see here aren't heirlooms from the days of the Tudors - just ephemera that someone collected to pass the time enjoyably. No need to fetishise it.
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Posted 04/14/2019   03:09 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Happy555 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks for the tips and answers. It was helpful.

I will answer about the proposal to leave stamps to future generations. Looking at the prices on ebay, I realized that the time of the stamps had passed. Stamps are engaged in those who collected them since Soviet times, or those who received them as an inheritance and became interested in them. Given the trends of the developing century, I can say with confidence that stamp collecting is dying out and our future generations will not even understand why they were collected. World values #8203;#8203;and priorities are changing. Therefore, I am absolutely sure that among future generations there will be no new fans to collect stamps.
Moreover, reading the posts of other users, I was very upset by the fact that now stamps are sold at a price much lower than they used to be bought. What a lifelong pursuit
 what a person has collected all his life now can be bought for a measly $ 50.
For huge collections that were collected all my life, a maximum of 75-150 $ can pay. Just because they are not a great relic.

It is very sad :(

In any case, as I have already said, I will scan all marks for memory. However, selling them became a question for me. Does it wash them to sell if postal services cost more than the value of the stamps themselves. Wouldn't it just be a waste of time?
I'm glad to offer GeoffHa. After I scan all the stamps, I'll show the complete collection and most likely sell it.
Thank you all very much.
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