First Day Cover Interest?

Hi. I've inherited my family's albums of first day covers.
Local shops seem to have no interest.

Question: do first day covers have any value?
I have about 27 albums of various sizes, I think most are USA, perhaps all.

Thanks for your responses.

Can you tell us what time span they are? 1950's, 60', 70's, etc. Before the year 1935 they have value from some to a lot, after 1935 not so much. There are a few exceptions.

Thanks Germania. I think they are more current, but will check. Thanks for the response and guidance.

Show a scan or picture. That will tell all.

We do need some sample images in order to figure out what it is that you have. One thing that you can check immediately is whether the FDCs are addressed or not. If they were part of some (overpriced) subscription service with typed addresses on the FDCs - say from the Postal Commemorative Society or similar outfit, they have virtually no value at all.

One reason why a stamp dealer would show no interest would be he or she knows that the collector overpaid for the items being offered, and do not want to give the impression that they are trying to rip someone off. In other words, if part of some subscription service, these designer FDCs have almost no value in the after-market. The brutal truth is that the fleecing of the collector is done on the front end, when the items are purchased.

Clean, color-cacheted, unaddressed FDCs, on the other hand, have some value as there are many collectors of these items.

John

There is a club for folks that collect these: www.afdcs.org
You might check on them


Peter

Thanks Peter. Will do.

BubbALuigi if you find yourself at the point of donation the material, Stamps For The Wounded would accept them as a tax deductible donation. Started during WWII, it serves wounded US veterans and now veterans as well with all volunteer staff, no one gets paid.