There is something like 20 scott international albums which seem mostly full but realistically if you add up all the missing spaces I would say its probably 40-50% complete. These seem to be mostly used cancelled stamps. 1850's onwards. There are some stamps for every country, some country's are complete. He seemed big on Germany, Hungary, Portugal, Italy, and the US. I have spot checked alot of stamps and there are 5,000$ prices for some of them even used and cancelled. I will show them all here I promise.
Then there are 5-6 albums just for Mint stamps, a couple international focused albums but majority are US. Alot of duplicated effort I dont know. He seemed to like putting together albums.
Then there is an ungodly amount of First day Covers, seemingly almost complete from 1950 to 2002 (the year he died). There is lots of envelopes from late 1800's to 1930's that dont seem to be first day issues, but something else. Maybe just things that interested him. Lots of post cards from all over the world with cancels and stamps on them.
There is a garbage bags full of stamps cut off from their envelopes, mostly from 1910 to 1950's.
There are smaller quart sized bags with stamps cut off from envelopes from the 1960 and 1970's.
There are 6 three foot long boxes of glassine envelopes that hold plate blocks, and packed full of misc stamps from a certain country. Basically its sorted into country's.
There are a couple of boxes that are labeled with scott numbers from the US. Appears to be scott 200-1250 mostly complete.
There are cigar boxes full of 1900-1920 1 cent and 2 cent stamps.
There was shoe boxes full of loose stamps that I have since sorted by country and put into glassine envelopes. I was kind of surprised that it was a mixture containing stamps from the late 1800's to 1950's. Bulk I would say is 1930's. (This is the first and only thing I have done with the collection in the two weeks I have had it). This has been sitting in my grandmother's house since early 2000's. I never felt right going and cleaning it out while my grandmother was still alive, even though he had left it to me when he died.
There is LOTS of other misc boxes, books, supplies, loose stamps. There are US MINT SETS from 1970-1990. There are a bunch of WWII US mint sets. There are books upon books that have folders full of stamps in no particular order like he just stuck them in because of color or topic. There are some boxes full of glassines in no discernable order.
Right now I am just trying to get a handle on what is here. I have started to sort the loose stamps into country's and get them protected in glassine. I also went through alot of the boxes and just tidy'd up the numbering system putting things in the right places in the right order.
I bought an up to date SCOTT CATALOG volume 1-6 so that I can begin to understand what I have. NOT CHEAP BY THE WAY.
I am also thinking of picking up some software (ALSO NOT CHEAP).
THERE ARE SOME VERY INTERESTING THINGS I WANT TO SHOW PEOPLE. There is some old Roman stamps, labeled 1700's. I have only found one website that even mentioned them. And it was not the exact one (it was the same just in a different denomination and color). So hopefully someone can give me some information on them. What it could be worth. I understand 1850s are generally recognized as the first "stamp" so I'm sure they are something else but they are old from some sort of roman colony and they sure look like postage stamps.
This was also the collection my grandfather had
inherited from his father. I just know my grandfather was ALWAYS working on his stamps. He has membership cards from dozens of Philatelic groups. He was president of some. He loved trading stamps because he has records of it. He seemed to send out these packets of stamps to other people and they would send something and they would all pick what they want. He did this even with Philatelic groups overseas.
Posted 11/07/2023 8:25 pm
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