Pushing 330,000 All Different Worldwide Stamps In One Collection .

Floortrader just saw your post. You have been an inspiration to many a collector including me. I havethoroughly enjoyed this thread over the years. WIsh you all the best.
Aragorn

Greetings ........got a email today from one of the regular readers of this chat board .Thought it better to answer it as a posting here .Since it was a subject that was a running posting on this page .

The subject was the huge W.W. Collection being offered for sale by Cherrystone Stamp Auctions . It was up for auction for the third time today . {it is lot #1230 }. It was opened at $14,000 , the same price as their June 2025 auction . It went unsold again today . So it was put up in three different auctions ,Jan 2025 , June 2025 and today Aug. 2025 .

WHAT IS WRONG ????

A lot is wrong with how it was priced , first $23,000 then second and third $14,000 opening bid . This is not a all different collection , it is a accumulation of stamps .
second photo's are terrible ,not enough to judge it for resale .What is the purpose of listing all those countries in the world in the descripation ,a collector knows what countries are in the world .

My guess is somebody had a lot of free time plus a lot of free ink and paper to make 75+ binders of album pages . Then mount close to 100,000 cheap 2 cent and 5 cent stamps . Then went out and spend $7,000 on better stamps { that is the hundreds of better items/sets 250 X $30.00 to purchase stamps over $100.00 catalog value } After that decide to double their money }. My big issue ,is that there is no clue if this stamp lot has the $5.00 to $80.00 catalog stamps ,is it put together as a sale item and not a life long collection ,
That is the way I see the lot. How do you make sense of this ?

Do you think the house owns it?

That auction lot is like presenting someone with two tons of rotting oysters and telling them there's pearls in them there fruits of the sea.

You can't even recycle the paper, because there's mounts stuck to it. The binders also have to go in the bulk waste skip. Too much work to extract whatever is of value.

There is a curse on the House of Cherrystone.

Rogdcam ----- Think you may be right on the ownership ,because they tried 3X to sell it in one year .

estimate was probably 200 a binder. Too many broken sets for 14,000 hammer

Welcome back Floortrader! I agree that better photos might help. Even seeing all 75 binders together on a rack kinda helps set the stage.

Landoquakes ---Thanks .

I wanted to update some old discussions we had a long running talk about the sale of a massive worldwide lot / collection .
Sorry to see the closing of Sandfryre of Great Britain . The owner was a old friend way back to the days of Greg Manning Auctions .

Sandfryre This was a good auction house. Unsure why they did not sell the business.

Here's the little goodbye from Sandfrye... https://www.sandafayre.com/

I have been thinking about the Cherrystone collection and it actually shows that complete sets matter. There is a mantra that modern stamps have no value. Broken sets have no value. Full sets cheap or not have value. As I look through more and more collections, most collections do not have full sets of anything. Good collections are more scarce than people think and have full sets throughout.

I noticed that too, lots of blank pages. Once you see a couple good complete sets in an album one gets a pretty good idea how the collector worked.

Agree with you both a real poor presentation by the auction firm .

Blank pages and video scans showing a lot 2 cents stamps on pages is not the way to sell a $14,000 collection .It is like me wanting to tell them take out your few hundreds of better stamps {maybe 250 better X $30.00} and sell to someone the rest for $3,000 .So at $3,000 it saves someone time of printing and mounting 100,000 cheap stamps .What would do with it ?
My guess is they will list it again at $9,000 and will get some bidding on it .

Floortrader.

I wanted to join the chorus in thanking you for what you have shared on this thread over the years, and the interesting and informative discussions you have sparked. Wishing you the best success in the new endeavour.

Alan

Agree that broken/short sets are problematic up to a point. Before a certain date, it becomes more common for people to put together sets one stamp at a time, or past a $ value it becomes more common to have a short set (date & $ value will vary by collector). Sure complete sets are great to have, but not always practical. I'd rather have a few nice better sets or singles than a herd of common stamps, but that is far from a universal preference.