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There was a matchbox full of old stamps in a box of mostly buttons my mother gave me. I know very little about stamps. Can anyone tell me where to start trying to figure out if any of them are valuable? I can't even tell what country most of them are from although they look to be European.

Thanks!

 

german, polish, austrian, hungarian are all there plus many more

 

A lot of stuff from the '20s and '30s. I have quite a few of those. No expert, but I'm not seeing anything that makes me want to run out and research it.

The ones with the big numbers are from the German hyper-inflation period 1922/3. I'm fascinated by those and have quite a few. Prices went up so steeply that the post office couldn't keep up so, for instance, this 200 mark stamp (already a steep price) got over-stamped to 2,000,000 mark value.



The highest value stamp produced was 50 billion marks. Just before everything got re-valued, the cost of sending an overseas letter from Germany was 300 billion marks.

Most of those stamps are unused because if you held them for just a week, the prices increased so much that the stamps were useless. It's one of the few cases in which (legitimately) used stamps are actually more valuable than unused.

Stamp collecting in general is not doing well these days

 

Thank you for the info. I may just list them as a lot and see what happens (if anything).

 

I hate to say it, but probably not a lot. Those inflation/Weimar stamps are cool, but not worth a ton.

 

Sorry to state the obvious but Google image search and eBay are pretty good for valuing things. One thing image search might not pick up on though is subtle nuances such as misprints and extra perforations etc.

 

There are facebook groups for philatelists. You already have some good pictures so just join the group and ask them the same question. Some may offer to buy them.

 

Thank you all!

 

if you were wondering

the big interesting looking one in the last pic (next to the 500 mark german stamp) is turkish ottoman

probably around 1890s ish

not much value though i doubt

 

1898 Arms and Tughra

I saw one online for about $2.

I haven't seen this before:

It's New Caledonia, 1915. Again a couple of bucks, but it's kinda cool.

 

havent seen that overprint on the hungarian one either before, dont know if its an overprint or a fancy cancel

 

seems to be an overprint

https://findyourstampsvalue.com/stamp/ZCmp3ZDvVy

 

stampexchange.com ..... isn't that our sister site ???

 

Cointalk, but I'd bet some of the coin guys do stamps too.