Stamp Collection To Sell, 2 Stamps Possibly Valuable, Could I Please Ask For Some Advice?

Hello everyone

I am really pleased to be able to post on here, as the layout and feel of it is very familiar to me, being as I am a member of the Community Coin forum too!

Could I please ask for some advice - I'm looking at selling my late father-in-law's stamp collection. My husband has absolutely no interest in keeping or expanding the collection, so we are both keen to sell.

There are 5 volumes in total (one of which has gone missing, we're trying to locate it in storage!).

All very neatly categorised by country and date.

I've had a look at some of the countries in terms of the stamp values. There seems to be a couple that might be worth a significant amount according to my online research, but not sure about this - I've attached images of both of them. If anyone could please advise on these, I'd be really grateful? I believe the first stamp is a 10r Overprint King Luiz, 1868, and the second stamp might be a Norge 10 ore Postfrim stamp, although I'm not sure about this, as ours doesn't have straight edges.

There may be more in the collection that are valuable/rare - not sure. But my question would be - would you advise selling the collection as a whole - or perhaps removing the pages of the albums and selling by country? (That may evoke a resounding 'nooooo!! - I'm ready for that! )

Thanks in advance for anyone's help! Best wishes,

Ockystamp.

The Azores stamp has two different overprints - one for stamps with perforations of 12 1/2, the second for those with perforations of 12 1/2 or 13 1/2. Gibbons's catalogue price is between £32 and £41 depending on which you have. Multiply by around 10% to get a real world price.

The date of the cancellation suggests the Norwegian stamp is that from the new die issued late in 1909. This had an enormous print run. It also exists with imperforate edge(s). The one perforated all sides is pretty common. What makes you think it is valuable?

Thanks both - I am a complete novice so please forgive my naivety. I had commented on the original post to say that I'd noticed the lack of straight edges on the Norwegian stamp, so what you have said @NSK makes complete sense, thank you.

Thank you for your wisdom!

I wonder if you were confusing the Azores stamp with an imperforated issue with a similar, but not identical, design? That IS an expensive stamp.

@GeoffHa, that seems extremely likely! I'm intrigued now with the differences!

That, very much, depends on which countries and how complete those countries are. You, probably, should best attend a local stamp club meeting to show your collection and ask for advice on that.

Thank you, @NSK, we will look at doing that

Where are you located. What is the date range for most your stamps? How many stamps are there? How many stamps are pre 1940? How much effort are you willing to put in? Do you want to sell on ebay? These are all questions that need to be answered to determine how you should proceed.

@Willwood42, Sage advice, thank you :) We're based in the UK - to count the stamps will take a good while, but I would be willing to catalogue them all with date details (I enjoy doing things like that) - I would like to sell on ebay, but I'm aware that there is a limit to the number of photos you can include on listings, so not sure how best to proceed - lots of learning to do!

There's not much point in your exhaustively cataloguing stamps you don't wish to keep, bearing in mind that, for sales purposes, most stamps are worth pennies. You can include twenty-four images on ebay, which would allow you to have decent photographic coverage of lots broken up by country or area (eg Portugal and Colonies, French Colonies etc). Or you can sell all of the albums together, picking out pictures of the better pages and, with luck, generating interest from those searching for hidden treasure. Show some of the early pages for GB and the Commonwealth here, and you should get an idea of whether there's much of interest.

Agree with Geoff. I think the best way to sell on ebay is with a good description and photograph showing most of the earlier material with a note stating the end date of the collection and approximate number of stamps. Obviously if you find valuable individual stamps, they can auctioned separately or you could leave some of them in the country lot to invigorate the bidding.

Thank you for such helpful advice @GeoffHa & @Willwood42, really appreciated :)

I confirm NSK's Norway 1909 10 ore, no shading and complete clean circle on the horn. Yvert and Tellier put that at 0€15c

As has been suggested, find a good stamp club in your area, they will have catalogues, and get a 'heads-up' before making decisions