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Inherited Some Stamp's. Keep? Throw Away? Burn? Value?

 
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Posted 07/30/2023   6:40 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add selfan70 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
inherited these stamp's. i've been looking on here of other post, I probably know the answer already, all common stamp's. no real value. sorry for the pictures, best I could get, if you need better one's, I will try to get them, but I dont think I will need them. this is just few of them I picked out. there are 1300 stamp's, but alot of them are from other countries.






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Posted 07/30/2023   6:52 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Partime to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Very normal, very common stamps. Give away is my first thought, but you may want to post some that you believe are the oldest to give us a better idea.
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Posted 07/30/2023   7:13 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add essay_proof to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Depends on what you want to do. If you want to hold on to them for your own enjoyment, at the very least you can do some culling. Any stamps that you don't have duplicates of which are torn or obviously damaged can be tossed. For the duplicates, keep the best examples and toss the others.

As for determining what's a duplicate and what's not, the attached pic is a good example for making the distinction between a few of them. Those marked A are not duplicates (note the triangles in the upper corners of one and not the other). B and C share the same design, but the B's are duplicates; C is different because of the straight edges at top and bottom (likely from a coil of stamps rather than a sheet). Same stamp design, different "vending format," something which collectors distinguish. (Might even be a different year of issue though don't quote me on that.)

There are many organizations that will take donations of stamps for kids, veterans, and so on. But from what you've shown in the pics, I don't see anything that probably wouldn't be found in others' donations — save for the Maryland state tax stamp. That's a "state revenue" tax stamp, not the kind of thing that's on every collector's radar. Anyway, they're your stamps, do what you like with them.
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Posted 07/30/2023   9:43 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Rob Roy to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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torn or obviously damaged can be tossed. For the duplicates, keep the best examples and toss the others.

Easy with the tossing. Donating is always better than tossing.
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Posted 07/30/2023   10:04 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add essay_proof to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I mentioned donating.

I wouldn't suggest donating damaged stamps unless they were particularly hard to find. A few years back I put a partial sheet (4 stamps) of 1868 tobacco strips into a children's pile at GASS. The various tears and stains could have been fixed but only at great expense. That's not something a kid is going to see any time soon. But, for example, the Bill of Rights stamp pictured above with the manky upper LH corner. What good is that going to do anyone?

In any event, tossing is an easier option to exercise than burning (though certainly less fun to watch).
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Posted 07/31/2023   2:32 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Ringo to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Well, I wouldn't advise the 'best' thing to do is get rid of them. I would advise you to find out about them, where and when they were issued and what the depictions are and so on - cultivate an interest. It's a great hobby to get into.
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Posted 08/07/2023   4:05 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add selfan70 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
sorry guy's i've been busy, I will try and get some more pictures up soon, but he rest of the stamp's are foreign one's.
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Posted 08/07/2023   5:24 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Stamps4Life to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The possibilities are almost endless. Investigate the perfs, the cancels , the images. Sort duplicates and donate to a kids club. Tags, watermarks, etc. Could be a lot to do too if sorting for Dead Countries, etc...
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Posted 08/09/2023   8:42 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add selfan70 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
got some pictures. I know some are messed up. this is not all of them, I just picked out what I liked, what I thought was old. there were some more us stamp's. but newer one's. now give me the bad news.


























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Posted 08/10/2023   01:10 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add NSK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
If you are interested in collecting stamps, there is a lot to find out.

If you are not interested in collecting stamps, you have small pieces of printed paper. Unless one of those stamps has a variety, there is almost no, if any, monetary value in those pieces of paper. Also, many are damaged.
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Posted 08/10/2023   03:05 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add yosclimber to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
These are common world stamps that a kid would have in a collection in the 1960s.
(I had copies of most of those stamps in my kid collection at that time).
The next step up would be to have a stamp album and put the stamps in.
Neither of those has much value, because the stamps were available for very little money.
To have a valuable collection, it takes spending money to buy the valuable stamps.
Of course there can be value beyond the monetary value, for example they helped me learn a lot of geography and a little bit about foreign languages as a kid.
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Posted 08/10/2023   03:09 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Ringo to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
You have a good number of German hyper-inflation stamps which would look great sorted and laid out on a page. Track the crazy inflation as it goes along, into the thousands and even millions of Marks - for one stamp.

You have several Great Britain King George VI definitives - note how they were issued twice, the second time with the colours paler - that was to save ink during World War II.

The top scan, you have some German perfins, with initials punched into the paper - have a Google and see which company punched those letters in, and see if you have any more.

There's plenty of interest here, if you want it. If not, someone else will for sure, so defintiely don't bin them. Lack of financial value isn't bad news - it's normal.
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Posted 08/10/2023   03:44 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add NSK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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You have several Great Britain King George VI definitives - note how they were issued twice, the second time with the colours paler - that was to save ink during World War II.


You might argue the paler colours were not a new issue but rather a change to the ink mix to save ink and also prevent wear of the steel plates - steel- was needed for weapons. There, however, was another issue (depending on how you look at the paler colour the second or third) with a change in colours to comply with UPU regulations on the colours of stamps used on international mail.
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Posted 08/10/2023   04:18 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add NSK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
You also have stamps with perforated initials ('Perfins'). These were used by certain organisations. Often, these came from stamp rolls used in stamp-affixing devices. These applied the perforation (in the design, not around it) when affixing the stamps.

An explanation: https://www.gbstamprolls.com/affixing-vending/
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Edited by NSK - 08/10/2023 04:19 am
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Posted 08/10/2023   2:26 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add selfan70 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
thank you everyone for the info. as of right now, I dont know what im gonna do with them, im not into stamp's. I have other thing's I get into, fishing, metal detecting, scrap metal. dont have the time to look everyone of these up. dont get me wrong, I like the way some of them look, it's just I dont have the time for them right now, I may keep them and put them away for year's, I may just toss them, I have no kid's to give them too. some people say donate them, but one guy said these are probably same as other's donated. I just dont know right now. again thank you everyone.
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