Worldwide Stamp Collecting Dying Or Not ?

The key to lot 177 is that the collector added stuff beyond what is printed in the album ,so maybe a few better complete sets .

To Rog's point, if I were to sell my collection now I might consider not breaking out the better items or sets. Basically everything I have is complete set definitives and the collection might be worth more in country lots.

Likewise as I seek to add stamps to my colletion, I do not see price pressure upward on most individual sets or better single items. I started putting together some Mexico recently (definitives from 1934 until 1975 when the Exportas started). After putting several better items on my watch list on ebay, I started getting a string of unsolicited discount offers.

So this new phenomenon we are seeing with large collections may be limited to multi-volume estates or large country/region lots, and not better sets/singles.

I had a strong suspicion I was losing that album to Mr. Relyea. If not for me you would have had it for much less.

Shermae - Same here with the discounts. I am watching Russia items and have received quite a few really good offers. My new motto is: Omnibus Custodibus

Shermae: "I started getting a string of unsolicited discount offers......" Same here. I made a curiosity visit to HipStamp in late October. Since then, albeit slowing now, I had HipStamp offers popping up in sub-accounts within my main Google e-mail account and also within my YouTube account.

Back on the main topic, Rasdale has posted their Prices Realized. As noted already, collection realizations were sky-high. I bid $400 on #267; Baltic States; with an estimate of $300. It went for $900. My thought is this collection was not worth anywhere close to that amount, but somebody thought differently. Also did not get the one cover I bid on. As I think someone else noted, the single sets & items went for often well under the estimates.

Unsold items will be available in a couple days. But for now, my money still resides in "my wallet" and there are other opportunities.

The Rasdale cover lot I was interested in went for over 8x estimate.

The insanity of worldwide collecting.....
Here are 200-300 GK cards, all hold varying amount of stamps,
All scanned and catalogued, Possibly 300 differing countries,
3000 + stamps.
Now all need to be placed in 100+ albums.

Then it starts all over again as stamps arrive.

It is fun though.

At the rate I am being out bid on ebay and Hipstamp I would say definately NOT !!!

Some items are going for well OVER catalogue with no explanation as to why.

May be because so many are "staying in" for fear of covid 19 and they're just bored.

TIMM ---- Your not getting bored if your buying stamps ,no matter if your waiting for the item coming to your mail box or your buying from one of the auction houses and plan to spend a few months breaking it down .

Stamps do break the "Lock down blues".