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Me And My Wife Have Received Lot Of Stamps

 
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Posted 04/21/2025   2:50 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Jorppuli to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Hello,

Me and my wife have many boxes of stamps (mostly from Belgium) and many of these are from 1890s - 1950s. We have been organizing them and putting them into folders. We also found some old US and UK stamps. We are interested if we have anything of value here.
Overall we don't really care if they are valuable, it's just nice to organize and see stamps from different countries from different times.


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Posted 04/21/2025   2:54 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add BobInRye to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
On the US page, nothing financially valuable.
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Posted 04/21/2025   3:05 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Jorppuli to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks for really fast answer!
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Posted 04/21/2025   3:44 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add pjr to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
There are some attractive stamps on your Great Britain page, but nothing expensive.

The stamp fourth from left on the top row and the stamp on the right edge of the fifth row aren't from Great Britain. If you look, you'll see the name of the British colony.

You might be interested in sorting your GB stamps by monarchs. You have Queen Victoria, King Edward VII, King George V, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II here.
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Posted 04/21/2025   4:12 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add NSK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Even from these pictures that show little detail, it is clear some of the British stamps are severely damaged and / or are faded. There, also, are some sign that the way they are 'hinged' will destroy the stamps.

I hope these are not telling for the whole collection. I am sorry to say, unless there is a very rare watermark variety, that page of British stamps is not even worth the postage if you give it away for free.
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Posted 04/23/2025   3:14 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Jorppuli to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks for info! What you mean they are hinged in this case?
What kind of packed needed to be to have this many stamps Back in the days?
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Posted 04/23/2025   4:01 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add aolsson to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
During a period ending 30 April 1924 Poland had hyper-inflation. You can see an interesting collection from this period at https://polonus.org/exhibits-klimle...4-inflation/ There is a postcard from 14 Jan 1924 to USA franked with 240000 Mark. It looks as your item has 375000 Mk and used 15 Jan 1924 so this may have been a foreign letter. The international postcard rate was normally 60% of the letter rate.
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Posted 04/23/2025   4:36 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add NSK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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What you mean they are hinged in this case?


One way to mount stamps in an album is by using gummed folded hinges. I, however, am using the word in a more generic manner, as it looks like sticky tape was used and maybe even glue.
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