Amazing Old Time One Owner US Collection Sale Upcoming At Cherrystone

Dumont was a very well known stamp company in the NYC of my childhood.

I wonder if Cherrystone will break record with Scott 85F? For highest price for a used US stamp. ? Siegel has claimed the record since 1998. May change here?

There is really no way to know how many collectors have both the interest and the money for an item like this. Plus it's not an obvious rarity like an invert or a rare shade, it looks the same as a 77; one has to know and understand why it's rare. That might also play into people's attitudes.

I also appreciate that Cherrystone shows the recent certs and in viewing some of rarer items and their opinions, wonder why, for the truly rare stamps, the emphasis on really small flaws, is accorded by some, the same relevance as the same flaw on a much more common stamp. Naturally, the market will determine the value of any such item or flaw, but I as a collector would have a difficult time the small corner crease on the Scott 57 with OG and the small purple dot on the Scott 62 as more important than the rarity of the item itself.
The word "second" doesn't enter into my vocabulary for a stamp of this rarity when I consider how many people on the planet might actually own a "first."

It has never been a question of the true rarities. It's all the other stamps that have high catalog but show up regularly, where all it takes to own them is to have money. As I said before, there are any number of collectors on this site who would have created much better and much more interesting collections if they had an equal amount of money to spend as was spent here.

And?

There is no "and". The paragraph speaks for itself. Apparently you don't care what a stamp looks like as long as it catalogs a lot of money.

You are making assumptions and conflating admiration for the overall accomplishment with admiration for the individual parts. The sum total is amazing. You have expressed your criticism of the quality ad nauseum throughout this topic as if you need to convince people that the collection is not that exceptional for the most part. Got it. Not at all clear why you feel the need but I respect your right to do so.

Thanks for the clarification about Dumont. Still wonder that since most came from the same place whether the owner didn't simply rely on them too much without doing their homework on condition or if they made an informed conscious decision to buy what they did.

We can hypothesize all that we want. Based upon the catalog introduction it sounds as if the owner wanted to assemble a complete collection and did not have the means to do so in the beginning but did as time went by. Isn't that the beauty of collecting? You are free to to what you wish for you, nobody else. Want to collect postmarks from one town, PNC's, stamps with fruit on them, a complete Country, one BC reign? Your choice. And who cares what anyone else thinks is good or bad, right or wrong. The last thing that this hobby should be about is passing judgement on other collectors choices. It is supposed to be pleasurable for one person. Yourself.

I keep doing so because people like you keep going on about as if it's the greatest collection since sliced bread. Sure the owner could collect whatever he wanted, and clearly he did. That does not mean that everyone else has to put on rose colored glasses and pretend that it's somehow an astounding overall group. If it didn't have about a dozen stamps that are very rarely offered the whole collection would be a single lot in the collection section of some auction and 99% of all collectors would not even know it existed.

And nowhere does it say or imply that the owner did not have the money that he had later.

"Over the years, while enjoying the philatelic journey and the resultant education, the quest continued, the means changed and some of those difficult spaces, especially Reprints, Reissues and Special Printings began to fill."

For Reprints, Reissues and Special Printings. Not for Columbians and other more easily acquired items, like others here keep mentioning.

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