What To Do With My Dad's Stamp Collection

My parents recently cleared their loft out and have given me my 82 year old dads old stamp collection, which is made up of 3nr stamp collection books all with loose pages, and about 100nr loose stamps, some cover stamps & post cards.
The stamps are from various countries, some of the stamps are dated back to Queen Victoria.

So my question is, my dad collected these as a child so whats the likelyhood any of the individual stamps being valuable, is it worth while trying to transfer all the stamps into a new album, how should I go about doing this.

Thanks Simon

Welcome.

Please, post some pictures.

If the Queen Victoria stamps read 'FIVE POUNDS' and are as fresh as when issued, the chance the stamps are valuable is enormous. If they are lilac and have a face value of 1d with smudgy cancels, you may have to pay someone to take them.

There, really, is no way to tell you whether or not they might be valuable from your description. What holds for other collections may not hold for yours. If they, mostly, are ½d and 1d stamps up to George V and 2d and 2½d stamps afterwards, it might be a typical collection of common stamps taken from letters. But you never know.

And what other countries are the other stamps from? What face values do they have?

Pictures help people to see what type of collection it is and what state it is in. Condition is very important.

Here is a page from each of the albums, including list of country's included in one of the albums. And bunch of loose stamps.

Unfortunately, what some would call a beginner's collection. I don't want to get your hope up, but not any value I can see, but it was from Gpa, so you'll always have that.

If you are interested in starting to collect, you could definitely use these to begin to build your own collection. If that's what you want to do you can get a lot of good advice and guidance here on whether you'd want to proceed with new albums or perhaps stock books for storing the stamps. There can be some trial and error as you learn and discover how you want to do it, but that's part of the fun of the adventure.

If this is the 82-year-old dad's stamp collection, who's printing out the online auction listing for a rare South African SG44ea "airship" variety? CV around £900.

Can you give us a link or something? I don't see this anywhere in this thread.

The sheaf of papers in the green toolbox.

Taken as a whole, looks like an auction lot from the dispersal of a dealer's stock. Several schoolboy albums from different schoolboys, plus odds and ends.

This is a typical child's collection, and it would be a lucky child who happened to be given anything of value for his album. Leave it intact, aside from moving the loose stamps out of the plastic boxes, do a rough count of the stamps and put the lot on ebay with a low starting price.

The pages do look like they came from typical old childhood albums. Whether your 82-year old dad bought the pages from dealer boxes, at auction, or collect them himself stamp by stamp is irrelevant for what they are. Unless you have a nice variety that, accidentally, found its way there, these are very common stamps. Monetary value, I am afraid, is minimal.

In the end, it is up to you what emotional value it holds and what you want to do with the collection. If you want to sell it, keep in mind that a stranger will not assign any emotional value to it and will see a rather messy collection. On the plus side, I have seen many of these " inherited" collections posted that looked quite bad. Your stamps, generally, have light cancels. Some, however, have been almost destroyed by the hinges used.

I don't know, the residue from the ones that have been removed indicates that the collector actually used hinges and not sticky tape, or chopped-up German inflation issues, or that rubber cement from a bicycle repair outfit.

Or made tiny enclosures from black cardboard and cellophane like this big Germany collection I bought last month.

Where did it say sticky tape?

The 2d orange of the GB Stamp Centenary issue (bottom centre of the GB page in the first and third pictures), very clearly, shows the hinge's gum permeating the stamp. Some old stamp hinges destroyed stamps in the same manner sticky tape would have done.

(start again) I see from the photos that the collector actually used hinges, and therefore refrained from using sticky tape. I've got a whole album with about a thousand stamps welded in with that stuff.

That 2d orange looks like it has pencil or pen writing on it.

When was the 1d revenue tax raised to 2d?

I think the OP has heard a consensus commentary about the potential value of the collection, regardless of whether certain types of hinges were used. I look forward to hearing what they intend to do, and then we can move on from this discussion.