philatelia
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Captain Jack - my best kiloware find ever!
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What I collect: Ireland, Japan, Scandy, USA, Venezuela, Vatican, Bermuda, Austria
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Post by philatelia on Jan 22, 2020 10:50:33 GMT
How many times have people brought you their collection and asked if it is worth anything? Yeah - you know what I mean. Over here in the USA you will see a Statesman or Minuteman album with a few USA plate blocks and a bunch of CTOs and badly soaked USA. The usual children’s collection. But then one day someone shows you these ... ( true story - happened to me back in the 1980s) ... yeah I almost fainted! These were just the tip of the iceberg ... plus Zeppelin covers galore! ... and these were just the covers! The stamps? OMG   |
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philatelia
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Captain Jack - my best kiloware find ever!
Posts: 3,404
What I collect: Ireland, Japan, Scandy, USA, Venezuela, Vatican, Bermuda, Austria
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Post by philatelia on Jan 22, 2020 10:58:26 GMT
FYI. I gave this man the names of a few top auction houses. I’m not sure if he consigned it or not because he was transferred to a different location. He came to me for a second opinion - some local physician had offered him $2000 - I told him the collection was worth six figures at least! I’m so glad he didn’t have it stolen from him - it was his father’s collection.
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angore
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What I collect: WW, focus on British Empire
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Post by angore on Jan 22, 2020 11:49:46 GMT
I have only had some relatives discuss collections (more like small accumulations). They only collected them because they thought they may have future value.
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philatelia
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Captain Jack - my best kiloware find ever!
Posts: 3,404
What I collect: Ireland, Japan, Scandy, USA, Venezuela, Vatican, Bermuda, Austria
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Post by philatelia on Jan 22, 2020 13:41:26 GMT
The reason I was asked to look at so many collections was because I used to work in a large factory complex with literally thousands of employees. Word got out that I “knew” stamps so everyone and their brother started bringing me their collection to assess. I probably looked at over 100 collections during those years. Remember, the 1980s were the big golden years for stamp values and folks started hunting for their childhood collections to see if they had anything valuable.
There was one other nice accumulation - a group of mostly 1930s Switzerland.
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kostia84
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What I collect: Pharmaceutics (thematic), WWII (thematic), Israel (chronologically)
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Post by kostia84 on Jan 22, 2020 19:21:36 GMT
Hey philatelia , can you enlighten me regarding the reason why the scans are so valuable? |
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Post by dermmd on Jan 22, 2020 21:01:15 GMT
The autographs of Ford, Edison and Hoover on the first and the baseball team on the second
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philatelia
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Captain Jack - my best kiloware find ever!
Posts: 3,404
What I collect: Ireland, Japan, Scandy, USA, Venezuela, Vatican, Bermuda, Austria
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Post by philatelia on Jan 23, 2020 5:29:19 GMT
Exactly! The autographs are amazing!
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