New Member Are These Stamps Worth Anything

I just got a few stamps from family and need help find value.
a a Sri

Hello. Unfortunately not - these are very common stamps of no financial value.

Again, no.

The vast majority of stamps, more than 80%, have no financial value.

Anyone care to identify the perfin in the center of the second photo?

The perfin is for the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway, as sourced to eBay/stamps. There are several of these style perfins for sale on ebay.

Linus

I live in NE KS and not many stamp collectors. None that I know of. So none of my washington are worth anything?

Keep in mind that billions of these workhorse Washington two cent stamps were issued. Very few are "rare" or even scarce.

They all have some value it is just that if you want to sell them to realize their monetary value, it will cost you more to sell than you will receive selling them.

Based on what you are showing, your perfins have the greatest potential for interest, followed by the precancels, but none of it will put much of anything in your pocketbook.

On the other hand even though these don't have a lot of value if you are just starting collecting most collectors only have one stamp of each variety so you already have a good number of different types to add. Even the Washington ones there are pre cancels, perfin, & color variations to indicate maybe different varieties. Just because they look the same sometimes doesn't mean they are. There must be 15 or more varieties of that Washington plus each precancel perfin & even postmarks for some collectors make it another variation. Stamps can get very complicated. So if you are collecting you have a start. Enjoy the journey. If you are looking for big profits you may want to look elsewhere. Every stamp has a value, catalog & street, it's just finding someone who needs one to get anything for it. Careful, you may get hooked. I did 70 years ago.