Unused blocks of four are very popular with some specialist collectors. May not make you a millionare, but worth listing.
Unused blocks of four are very popular with some specialist collectors. May not make you a millionare, but worth listing.
I just ran across an album of stamps of the world. It is hard backed and dated 1956. There are quite a few stamps in it that have hinges. Several countries that I don't think exist anymore. Would it be worth listing?
I have learned that anything is worth listing. It can take ages to find a buyer, but if you can afford to store it it'll be worth it in the end
I do remember an article, or maybe a post in a forum, when I was doing the research. Hinges were standard until sometime in the 1960's when the new slotted pages became available, so his advice to collectors was to accept that. If they wanted a stamp from before 1960 they might not be able to find it without hinge marks. So that alone shouldn't stop you.
As for whether they're worth listing, that depends on you. You could research the stamps individually to find their value. This is the most time-consuming part. You might hit the jackpot and find some that are valuable, but most of them will be very low-value. In my case, once I find the value, it's so easy to set up an auction I'm listing all of them. You'd better have a scanner, though!
If you don't feel up to the research, you could also offer the album intact, but that generally won't fetch a high price because the buyer doesn't know exactly what stamps it contains.
There are people who don't care if stamps are hinged or unhinged. Like me. Maybe I am unhinged because of that, but the few stamps I collected over the years I got just for the beauty of the stamp, the interest in the country, the history of the stamp, or the fact that it was a quiet hobby. I also keep on the lookout for bulk stamps, postmarked or not, inexpensive, that I put in my artwork. So the audience for stamps can be as varied as the stamps for sale.
Ta-Ta for now!
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I can confirm both parts of the post....
I once bought an unsorted box of albums of stamps at an auction about two years ago (admittededly it cost me £45 for the box... but it contained around 20 albums) the first album I looked at had an old collection of UK stamps in it which I put back into (another) auction house a few months later and that one album made over £1200... but the original lot was really a "rummage box" which took 6 months to go through one stamp at a time.
I know our loft holds a number of albums. So when we eventually get to them I'll have plenty to do
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