An Interesting Inheritance

A friend of mine has inherited some stamps from her father and I am helping her evaluate what to do with them.

If you could recommend the best place to sell them that would be great. I suppose high value ones might require a different sales venue?

I went through a few hundred with the Scott catalogue and have picked out a few of the possibly high value ones, they are hinged. But as a novice I have no idea of their actual value. If there are any good ones please let me know.
















I am happy to post some more if you are interested.

Hello. The German ones are penny stamps found in most albums from around WWII. Common Chinese stamps will sell for something on ebay, almost irrespective of what they are. That's likely to be the best venue - and, if they're in an album, it's usually best to leave them there and take a few representative photos. Show us a few more pages.

Can you show us some of the oldest U.S. stamps?

I do not recognise this stamp,
anyone?

rod, looking at stampworld it is Chinese empire, 1897

Thanks Rob.
Looks like Sc#30 1897
Dragon and Hydrangea
2c on 2c Surcharge, small numeral 2

This lovely stamp from China has a complete 6-bar Pa-Kua obliterator cancel. The Pa-Kua is a grid of six horizontal bars, full or broken, read downwards from the top:

1 denotes a full bar.
2 denotes a broken bar

Your stamp is either a 121221 PAGODA ANCHORAGE or a 122121 AMOY.
Probably AMOY in my opinion, reading right to left, but it is impossible to tell for sure off cover.

Linus

(Source: "The Philatelic and Postal History of Hong Kong and the Treaty Ports of China and Japan" by Colonel Francis Wynne Webb
Pages 212 and 239)

Nice work Linus
saved.

Any Information on this one?
OFFICIAL- IMPERIAL POST ?

China, Scott #127 Rod

Ooops! Apologies Bobby,
was wondering if Linus could ID the Postmark.

Only 1 of 2 Barred Postmarks I have seen of China.

Rod

I searched for information on your cancel; but could not find anything. Sorry. I have never seen that one before. Nice stamp.

Linus

Cheers Linus, may be another country, other than China.

The postmark looks like "RIAL POST O" to me Rod.

Looks like a roller cancel?

RIAL POST O ffice perhaps.
Looks like a roller, not seen one that early before though.
Linus fails to advise on the previous impression.


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