Inherited worldwide collection
Sept 26, 2021 4:06:44 GMT
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Post by darkormex on Sept 26, 2021 4:06:44 GMT
I posted here about a worldwide collection that I inherited and wanted to follow up here and then, post in specific country topics as I look at the pages and loose stamps.
First, however, a little bit of background...my cousin messaged me several weeks ago and said that he and his wife had found an old stamp collection in her father's house as they were clearing it out after he moved. He is still on his own at 88 but downsized to a smaller home. I told him I would take a look and went through it to give him an idea of it's potential value and offered a bit for it. My recommendation was, however, if he wanted to get a more realistic sense of it's value, he should have a dealer look at it rather than myself. My cousin's wife also has a brother who he thought might be interested in it so he said they would reach out to him and offer it.
I also explained about how catalogue pricing was not necessarily what a dealer would pay for it so that he did not have unrealistic ideas that he was going to receive thousands of dollars for what, to my mind, was interesting only because it could fill some spaces in various country collections. Once you see what I post going forward you will see that there really is nothing in this collection that would fetch more than a couple bucks on Hipstamp.
In the end, the brother didn't want it and they decided not to reach out to a dealer and he messaged me again and said they were just going to give it to me and if I had time to stop by and pick it up. Of course I said yes.
So below are all of the loose pages that form the oldest part of the collection. It turns out that some of the stamps are on pages from an old stamp album and others are simple lined notebook paper. In the case of the notebook paper there is a name and a date, "Property of Ned Martin, Jr. 1942 prices". Ned Martin was actually my cousin's wife's uncle who she never met because she wasn't even born before he passed away at the age of 16. He was born in 1932 and so would have been 10 years old at the time he had put together this stamp collection.
Her father believes the stamp album pages were originally from her grandfather, Ed Martin's, collection. Ed Martin was actually born Edoardo Martinelli in Italy and emigrated to the US in the early 1900s. The "elli" part of his name was dropped to become Martin.
There was also a 1960 HE Harris Ambassador Album (seen in the first photo I posted, see the link above). This was also, apparently, the grandfather's but from a later stamp collection he put together again. These old pages below were folded and stuffed inside it and, as you can imagine, there are also some folded and quite damaged stamps. This was a bit of a tragedy but, again, there is nothing here that is going to put me into immediate retirement on the beach in Fiji.
So, with that said, I will post in individual country thread from this point forward to give you an idea of what I have found.
First, however, a little bit of background...my cousin messaged me several weeks ago and said that he and his wife had found an old stamp collection in her father's house as they were clearing it out after he moved. He is still on his own at 88 but downsized to a smaller home. I told him I would take a look and went through it to give him an idea of it's potential value and offered a bit for it. My recommendation was, however, if he wanted to get a more realistic sense of it's value, he should have a dealer look at it rather than myself. My cousin's wife also has a brother who he thought might be interested in it so he said they would reach out to him and offer it.
I also explained about how catalogue pricing was not necessarily what a dealer would pay for it so that he did not have unrealistic ideas that he was going to receive thousands of dollars for what, to my mind, was interesting only because it could fill some spaces in various country collections. Once you see what I post going forward you will see that there really is nothing in this collection that would fetch more than a couple bucks on Hipstamp.
In the end, the brother didn't want it and they decided not to reach out to a dealer and he messaged me again and said they were just going to give it to me and if I had time to stop by and pick it up. Of course I said yes.
So below are all of the loose pages that form the oldest part of the collection. It turns out that some of the stamps are on pages from an old stamp album and others are simple lined notebook paper. In the case of the notebook paper there is a name and a date, "Property of Ned Martin, Jr. 1942 prices". Ned Martin was actually my cousin's wife's uncle who she never met because she wasn't even born before he passed away at the age of 16. He was born in 1932 and so would have been 10 years old at the time he had put together this stamp collection.
Her father believes the stamp album pages were originally from her grandfather, Ed Martin's, collection. Ed Martin was actually born Edoardo Martinelli in Italy and emigrated to the US in the early 1900s. The "elli" part of his name was dropped to become Martin.
There was also a 1960 HE Harris Ambassador Album (seen in the first photo I posted, see the link above). This was also, apparently, the grandfather's but from a later stamp collection he put together again. These old pages below were folded and stuffed inside it and, as you can imagine, there are also some folded and quite damaged stamps. This was a bit of a tragedy but, again, there is nothing here that is going to put me into immediate retirement on the beach in Fiji.
So, with that said, I will post in individual country thread from this point forward to give you an idea of what I have found.
