Hello Everyone From Jimmyt

Hi Everyone,
I am a new member, resident of North Carolina schooled in Ohio, few years in the Air Force, married, four children, and six grandchildren. Now a widower four years. My dad left a stamp collection, big surprise to me and my siblings. He never spoke about collecting stamps. Trying to determine value of the collection. Have been using EZ-Stamp software. I look forward to interacting with other members of this forum.
Jimmyt

Welcome.
Condolences on the loss of your spouse and your father.

As to thesurprise collection your father left, we hope you will grow his collection, and enjoy collecting as we do, but we recognize that's not everyone's cup of tea

A couple pictures would help us help you think about what you might do. Is itmainly United States, or international? Organized in one or more albums?

Again, welcome.

Jimmyt,

The family connection to your collection adds personal value to you.

Collecting for the enjoyment of collecting, whatever that might be, is the name of the game. Don't hesitate to ask questions especially if you need basic information and especially more advanced sources of information for any possible topic. You should be able to find folks on this board a little further along on their collecting journey glad to share experiences.

My personal bias is a used stamp loses the story of its journey in the postal service when it is removed from the cover it transported to its destination. Collecting postal history adds a whole new aspect to your journey in our hobby. Sounds like you are a perfect candidate to become a postal history collector?

Wishing you many enjoyable future days in our hobby. Russ