BermudaSailor
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Posts: 105 
What I collect: British colonies, primary Bermuda
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Post by BermudaSailor on Jan 11, 2024 14:36:04 GMT
I recently purchased a used Palo French Polynesia album on eBay. The listing stated that the album contained "about 40 stamps". When I received it there were indeed about 40 stamps included. Thing is they were all attached to the album pages with loops of scotch tape. I had a bit of a time getting them out of the album without damaging the pages. Needless to say, the 40 stamps were consigned to the bin. The album looks okay though and that's what I was purchasing, so on balance I wasn't too distraught.
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angore
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Posts: 5,704
What I collect: WW, focus on British Empire
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Post by angore on Jan 12, 2024 11:29:09 GMT
Did you contact the seller. Interesting that someone would purchase a Palo album (not cheap) then use tape. This does not sound consistent.
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BermudaSailor
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Posts: 105
What I collect: British colonies, primary Bermuda
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Post by BermudaSailor on Jan 16, 2024 16:52:18 GMT
Did you contact the seller. Interesting that someone would purchase a Palo album (not cheap) then use tape. This does not sound consistent. I agree that it isn't consistent. I bought this for the album, not the stamps, so I didn't see any point in contacting the seller. |
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vikingeck
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Posts: 3,551
What I collect: Samoa, Tobacco theme, Mail in Wartime, anything odd and unusual!
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Post by vikingeck on Jun 11, 2024 16:18:03 GMT
Does anyone else hesitate to toss stamps into the trash bin? I certainly do know when a stamp is worthless, common damaged junk and is totally uncollectible, but I will still hesitate to pull the trigger and put it out of its misery. A little voice in the back of my head says “oh but it might be some rare variety!” Ugh! What started this was a box that arrived yesterday. Another collector sold me his “duplicate box”, but the quality is so unbelievably bad that I think he confused the duplicate box with the trash bin. They are just too awful to donate to the sftw charity. Maybe I’ll ask a local friend if he wants to give them a once over before consigning them to the big stamp album in the sky. Sigh. a year and more ago Terri posed the question about disposal of damaged stamps and the collector reluctance when it comes to trashing them......... Weep with me again today as I resolutely prepare to wield my executioner axe as I sift through a junior album, trying to find any decent copies in an untidy mess of damaged dross. About 50% will go straight in the bin, no mercy or mitigation. Maybe another 30% will get a second look with some reprieved and many more condemned. If I am lucky in the end, about a quarter of the contents will be rehabilitated before the album itself gets binned . Believe me, trashing the rest will be a service to the philatelic world, so don't quibble and suggest I give them to kids or charity . That would be an insult to a junior collector or to the Oxfam shop co-ordinator Torn and thinned , missing corners and edges, heavy creasing, stained with Foxing, or heavens! with Sellotape.   i.ibb.co/0VSb5wm/IMG-0002-NEW.jpg ![]() ![]() |
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anglobob
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Posts: 2,603
What I collect: France and French Colonies,French cinderellas British Commonwealth QE2
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Post by anglobob on Jun 11, 2024 17:15:35 GMT
I have to agree with Alex vikingeck here These belong in the rubbish bin.I would not dream of giving these examples to a budding collector. The local club gives away packets of common stamps here.One of their requirements is that all stamps are undamaged...no rips,corners missing or creases. |
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doug534
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A new enthusiast leaning to pre-1957 Aden, New Zealand, Switzerland, great designers & engravers
Posts: 171
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Post by doug534 on Jun 11, 2024 21:08:54 GMT
This shoebox full of "damaged" stamps was among half a dozen other shoeboxes filled with stamps found in my dad's philatelic materials, packed away in 1957 after his death. I'm going through his collections and inventory now, but I'll leave looking through this box until last. Maybe pass on the stamps to a teacher for introducing first graders to stamps?  |
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hdm1950
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Posts: 1,893
What I collect: I collect world wide up to 1965 with several specialty albums added due to volume of material I have acquired. At this point I am focused on Canada and British America. I am always on the lookout for stamps and covers with postmarks from communities in Queens County, Nova Scotia. I do list various goods including stamps occasionally on eBay as hdm50
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Post by hdm1950 on Jun 12, 2024 0:21:41 GMT
doug534 looking at what shows on the surface I am not seeing glaring damage so if it were mine I would be taking a look through. Possibly the damage writing was from a previous sorting and not related to that mixture.
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vikingeck
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Posts: 3,551
What I collect: Samoa, Tobacco theme, Mail in Wartime, anything odd and unusual!
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Post by vikingeck on Oct 8, 2024 10:33:53 GMT
A recent request for help with an inherited collection produced a major disappointment. About 120 penny red Queen Victoria from 1870 looked like they might offer the lady some return, however when I started to sort for the plate numbers reality struck. The lot was clearly some one else’s rejects . Every single stamp had defects, pinhole, damaged corner, trimmed perf edge or two or three or even four, small tears . The harsh reality is that these were printed in the billions and today there are still millions around. The average catalogue value in fine condition is £2.75 , not even $4 , they usually sell in good condition for less than $1. With second grade for a few pennies. About half of the lot had smaller faults but faults they are, poor 2nd grade and I will try to sell 50 for £5( against my principles I know but someone less discriminating might give them house room. The other half don’t even qualify as 3rd rate and will be culled. Such do not even qualify as spacefillers , they are very common, easily replaceable and not expensive .  “If I was greedy I could put them on eBay and possibly some collector deluded , because “they are old” , might bid for them but I would thereby be doing the hobby a disservice , off loading dross into the market. ”Defer, defer to the Lord High Executioner!”Gilbert and Sullivan operetta “The Mikado” |
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