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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 6695, member: 25"]<i>And I know nothing about stamps</i></p><p><br /></p><p>I do. Start a thread with a scan of one or two pages and I can pretty well predict if you have anything worthwhile.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reason for this is that stamps tend to be accumulated or collected, so collections are what I call philatelist collections, where the albums will be neatly presented, in good order and condition,and what I call schoolboy accumulations where the goal seems to be to get as many stamps as possible. Old schoolboy collections can have valuable stuff amidst the vast numbers of common items, but they do need to be old, pre 1950 certainly.</p><p>Philatelic collections are fairly easy to value by looking for certain key stamps to determine if any serious money went into the collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>You tend to buy schoolboy accumulations by weight.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 6695, member: 25"][I]And I know nothing about stamps[/I] I do. Start a thread with a scan of one or two pages and I can pretty well predict if you have anything worthwhile. The reason for this is that stamps tend to be accumulated or collected, so collections are what I call philatelist collections, where the albums will be neatly presented, in good order and condition,and what I call schoolboy accumulations where the goal seems to be to get as many stamps as possible. Old schoolboy collections can have valuable stuff amidst the vast numbers of common items, but they do need to be old, pre 1950 certainly. Philatelic collections are fairly easy to value by looking for certain key stamps to determine if any serious money went into the collection. You tend to buy schoolboy accumulations by weight.[/QUOTE]
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