Where To Get Common Worldwide Stamps

Why not trade with other collectors, and ask for the countries and time periods that he is interested in?

Take a look at the 1964 catalog and you'll see that Latvia even in 1964 was 10 cents a stamp. Not exactly common even back then--$11.25 per 100, as opposed to Italy 50 cents, Latin American 75 cents, etc. I bought a packet of Baltics at a stamp show for about 10 cents stamp in 2019 or so. I would consider them "uncommon" in that if you buy 1000 stamps on ebay in a mixed off paper lot, you'd be highly unlucky to get any Latvia or any Baltic State for that matter.

I just did a search for "Latvia off paper" in the stamps category. There are a number of BIN options, 10 stamps for $3, about 25 (some 1941) for $19,a Northern Europe collection for $10, and 173 Latvia duplicates for $79 (not so cheap), a nice 1938 souvenir sheet for $4, etc. That Northern Europe lot is an interesting one but it includes Lithuania, Central Lithuania etc but a nice $10 foray into that part of the world.

Part of the thrill for me, anyway, is the search. What would be the fun if you just bought them all and then you were done :)

I've got a stockbook page of Latvia and Lithuania as part of an auction lot. They're out there, but not as common as you might have thought.

Jackie

Depends what you mean inexpensive . Yes I got a lot of Latvia but they are stamps that catalog 50 cents to $5.00 and not interested in sitting down at my desk to make up a lot . If I am getting 10 cents a stamp . It would take a hour to put it together and mail it . I rather make up $25.00 to $50.00 lots ,so we come back to the question what is INEXPENSIVE !
A seller rather just throw them in a worldwide mixture lot at 6 or 7 cents each than sit and sort and make 10 or 12 cent each,why spend all that extra time for pennies .

You might want to look at Friedman's Stamp Company collections for sale.
https://www.drbobstamps.com/index.php
I just checked and there are two Latvia and two Japan collections for sale. I've bought a few things from him before and have been pleased with my purchases.
The downside is the collections are large. (He buys and sells entire collections). The listings "highlight" some key issues. The collections I've purchased didn't appear to be cherry picked.
Because they aren't cherry picked, they're not cheap either; they are generally between 25 - 50% of Scott depending on content.
I've used them as a framework for countries/areas I want to collect but have few stamps.

Dan

Did anyone look at the links I provided?

The material is right there to see.

Modern Japan lots come up all the time in auctions. I bought two from Dutch Country recently, and they had more of them just in that one sale. Spend some time on SAN and you will find them, same for many other countries. Often come with the albums too.

No need to beat your head in, I at least looked at the Aldrich link :) Weeks ago actually, before decided had enough Japan for now.

Gmot is Cephus's wife? Who knew!!!

Certainly not her!

That took a weird turn…

You can't help someone if you don't know what their willing to spend ......why show nice mounted collections up for auction for a few hundred dollars when all they are looking for is a plastic bag full of 5 cent stamps .

That's why I said this in the first reply to this topic: