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Originally Posted by hcoles
Hey Pelicans,
Anyone interested or knowledgeable in postage stamp collecting?
I inherited a collection and I have no idea what the value might be.
How do I find out in an efficient way?
Most of the stamps are "pasted" in a collection book.
I can post photos if that helps.
Thanks.
Mods please move to OT. Thanks.
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How old are the stamps? The most likely answer to your question is 'not much', but it can be interesting to learn a bit and find out about them.
FWIW -I inherited a decent stamp collection a while back and went through a similar process. I matched up Scott numbers for some and got a rough idea of what may be worth a bit (
https://findyourstampsvalue.com/helpful-terms/scott-numbers) Generally speaking, the stamps from the 1800's had a few (Columbian Exposition set, etc.) that were worth *something* and the later stamps worth next to nothing relatively speaking.
This was in about 2005 and I had an auction house give me a $3-5k estimate if it went to auction on what would have been book price at around $10k (you never get that book price).
I still have the stamps due to a combination of being lazy and sentimental. I highly suspect that the collection is worth less now that it was in 2005.