I Wonder Who Snagged This Haul Off Of Craigslist?

I saw it and responded friday morning but it was already gone. they listed it thursday night. Would have been interesting to go through. Maybe.

Opportunity Lost. Happens to me all the time.

Jack Kelley

One wife is angry; many wives are delighted.

Essentially sight unseen. Volume does not equate to value. I could put together 5-6 paper cases I would be thrilled to get $100 for.

"We have not gone through them" Wink

Before posting on Craigslist they likely had 1 or more dealers look and decline.

The stamps are $100, but the silverfish are free. I would have repackaged the stamps on the spot and discard all original packing materials.

" Battle " is right ,you need to stop at the dollar store or the hardware store and buy those $1.00 plastic shoe boxes with snap on lids and those large plastic containers with snap on lids at the hardware store . Transfer the stamps leaving behind as much as trash like cardboard boxes and musty smell before you store it in your garage . Then sort it be again outside before bring it into the house .

You get 'attic finds' all the time on ebay.

Most of them are fake.

One guy I knew listed all his stamp lots for several years as 'found in the attic'. Maybe he put them up there and then 'found' them again a week later.

Plus the barn story is probably bogus. Tried to make it sound like a Herman Herst-style find.

"barn find" are the magic words to add value to anything. I used to attend country auctions quite often and every time the stuff was in a barn attendance was high as was bidding. Then a friend told me that one particular auctioneer would move other estate material to a barn property to boost interest and value.

Just because the barn was 100 years old doesn't say anything about when the stuff was put in there

Yeah, I have a 100 plus yr old barn and I find stuff in there all the time I forgot I had. There was also the danger that each box contained glassine wrapped chunks of stamps all stuck together.