Worldwide Stamp Collection Sells For $96,000 .

In a previous posting ROGDCAM said "On what you posted and what KEN posted ...the overall coverage was so-so when you went beyond the better single items" .

That is something I want to avoid-- and as DrewM said above all the middle level stamps are important to build a collection, in his posting . A collector who is working and developing a decent collection needs to focus on that and it is not about just more money as most people think it is the joying of developing your collection . The eye candy is fine if you got the money to put into it ,but it is the search and development of your collection that brings the most joy.

Something else that hasn't been mentioned in regard to this collection.

Whoever amassed it had a lot of time and money to do so, yet it is unlikely they would have had specialized expertise in all the countries covered (as its a worldwide collection). I think its a reasonable bet that they might have missed some of the rarer varieties -- that they actually had them, the rarer perfs. or dies or whatever, but they didnt know. Those kind of rare varieties do show up from time to time in junk collections -- I imagine you might get quite a lot of them in a top-range collection like this.

I would not assume so. Some MIGHT be there, but it would be foolish to EXPECT them to be there.

I am shocked .....do you hear me ......totally shocked . M. Roger Auctions part of the Kelleher Auctions , has justed listed a new auction on the internet with lots of mid-range stamps .Wonder were they came from ????.We should make that the $96,000 question .I am going to offer a FREE subscribation to the STAMP COMMUNITY CHAT BOARD if you guess right .

I don't know Floortrader. A lot of key items that I saw in that collection are not in the auction. Of course it does not mean that the really good items are in stock and the balance went to auction. The jury is out for now for me.

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Well, if they bid from the floor, like everybody else, it seems that fair's fair.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

IKEY ---That is not how it works at FLOORTRADER STAMP AUCTIONS ,if you put in a top bid of $96,000 with the firm .Then on the day of the auction my brother's cousin father has a prior bid already in so you would loses the lot at your top price to a prior bid .

Sorry; not following.

I thought the point was that we knew the floor bidder, and that the floor bidder bid from the floor, and won.

I apologize if I blew past the news about a prior tying bid.

I do understand that, if the floor bidder is, uh, in a relationship with the auction firm, then they are buying the lot without suffering the buyer's premium & house commission, as these move from one pocket to another.

This is not unfair to the seller - the net is the net - but it would present a significant advantage over other bidders, as (round numbers) the insider agent can afford to bid U$D 1.50 to every other bidder's U$D 1.00.

Wasting the other bidders' inspection time is not a small matter; one can only hope this happens rarely.

I was not there, can read no one's minds, and do not know who bought what for whom.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey