Searching A High Value $$$ Box Of Postage Stamps - Part 1
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- Опубліковано 25 лют 2019
- In this video, I open a random box of nearly a 1000 boxes of postage stamps. I'm looking to see how difficult it will be to sort and neatly display the stamps and then also decide on selling many of the extras.
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I couldn’t imagine anything more enjoyable than going through a box with that much quality material. What a treat
I am trying to learn stamp collecting I love seeing my stamps I atarte collecting when I as a teen I love looking at them it relaxes me and I enjoy them
Glad to see people trying to learn. I’m 56 and still trying to learn. I have about 3 years of collecting
Makes on ask how on earth did this poor guy get himself in such a mess. Please don't answer that question. Normally the best policy when one acquires bulk stamps is to organize them straightaway. Now you have hours and hours of very low wage type of labor just to prepare them for sale. You do have plenty of value in the material, but soooo much work. Good luck if you're going to do all that yourself. I would send out for quotes from dealers who have the organization and the tools to process this much material. If you're going to keep a collection of one or two copies of each stamp, then do that first, then sell off the rest and save yourself much frustration. Just my opinion. Thanks for sharing your rather impressive hoard.
During my free time and when I'm in a stamp sorting mood, I've been organizing the stamps in Vario stock pages. Since it's a hobby, my time spent sorting is free, fun, and relaxing. I plan on making a follow-up video once I have both boxes sorted and in pages. Thanks for watching my video.
@@UncleNacki can't wait to see this collection sorted. Cheers
If doing this isn't fun for you, you should not ever be a stamp dealer. I was doing this on ebay 20 years ago and I made really decent money, not much competition then.
The WWII generation were buying and still paying top prices.
The trick was to buy in huge bulk, and then break it up.
Then the book "how to sell on Ebay" came out and people were happy making $3 an hr.
I just slowly sold my boxes off. Now I've got enough to keep ME happy.
I'll take the entire collection of course you will take a check right? 🤣 very nice fun fun
Just looking at first 20 minutes so far, the 90-cent blue Washington looks like the prize of the lot at 17:41. Centering, hinges, missing or nibbed perfs, any creases, toning, etc. reduces the value greatly. The 50-cent Zeppelins are "baby Zeps" from 1933, not the Graf Zeps (1930) which started with a 65-cent, $1.30 and the last was $2.60 face value. Looks like a fun box to go thru.
Always got to be one in every bunch
Some nice stamps but the first few damaged ones are almost worthless in that condition. The "banknote" stamps are socalled because they were printed by the American, National, or Continental BANKNOTE Companies, private companies that also printed money (ie., banknotes) for the US government before the BEP took over in the 1890s. Overall, a VERY nice box of stamps!
wow i love stamps !
The green zepplin are at least 85 $ nice collection and the big head Jackson's wow!
Yeah the blue Washington's a beauty for sure I think high values the right tag for that box !
How much did you have to pay for the box?
These 2 boxes were stamps from other large collections. When I was buying collections, I was paying very little since the hobby just isn't popular anymore. When I'd get a collection in, I'd do a real quick sort. like commemoratives in one box, flag stamps in another. But I wouldn't sort the stamps one by one. Just a ruff sort, until I was ready to sort them further. If I came across something of higher than average value, they would go in a separate box as well, during the sort. These were those type of boxes. With the quantities that I deal with, the first sorting step is pretty ruff and I usually miss a decent amount of stamps which I end up finding on the second or third sorting step. I write on the outside of the box a description of what's inside and then when the box is full, I seal it and it go's into the pile of boxes and containers. There's hundred's of these boxes, along with a bunch of large plastic bins and 40 gallon plastic garbage cans for the newer stamps on paper. I haven't bought a collection in probably 5 years. The last collection was physically too much. It arrived by tractor trailer on 6 pallets. I think it was around 4 thousand pounds of stamps in that collection.
@@UncleNacki sorry, bit stamp collecting is still very popular!
One of the biggest reasons why people don't think so, is because phialtely has mostly moved out of shops, andore on the internet...
But it's still there! There are more than 60 million collectors worldwide! 20 million from china, 5 million from USA, and more!
The good news is, these numbers are never very precise... Because you can't know every collector in the world. And every kid that collects stamps... In other words, there is a minimum of 60 million!
I'm fourteen, by the way.
@PatienceZero hi, thanks for the reply, it's definitely not a dead hoby... The exploring stamps chanel is proof!
@@yanmarin4445 Same here (age wise), I am looking into this other hobby of kings (world coin collecting taught me alot). I should be getting a bunch of stamps and a simplified 1980 SG world stamp catalog in a couple days.
I got my interest from helping my older sister sort our stamps we got from our uncle. She's not to into them so I am leaving the duplicates for her (she values 'em with a high sentimental value, don't worry he's still alive as of posting) and I'm storing them in vario stockpages I bought a few months back. I took a long break from sorting that because I had to sort through a bunch of bulk world coins (I still have to put nearly 100 new ones already labled in 2x2's (look 'em up) in my binders but stamps first!).
I am a bit hyped, the catalog should help cataloging and id'ing much more than colnect.
He means stamps are not popular in the USA anymore. Gen X/Mellins' collect video games.
I will be willing to buy one of the many boxes you have. Are you up for my deal?
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The value of everybody’s stamps just went down. Lol. Just like you said. The capital build stamp is fairly hard to find. Not anymore lol. Do you think I could have a few high value stamps. I’m pretty poor. My stamps are cheap but I love them. How about helping a guy out and puta little value in my collection
Good Lord, how do you come across so many Zeppelins?
Sorry, Century of Progress stamps. Still, as you point out, not commonly found in most collections. And to see your box, they seem as plentiful as flag stamps.
These boxes were stamps from many different collections. I would do a ruff sorting of the stamps when they would come in. One of the sorting groups is stamps that have or may have higher than average value. A majority of the collections I'd purchase were bought by the pound.
Bonsoir
A little less on the "you know s"
You can not single handedly manage the entire collection. The time and effort spent would not be commensurate with the return unless you stumble upon one or two items of considerable rarity.
Even this quest could drive you nuts. I would proceed as follows:
1. Go through a few boxes and select 1000 items you KNOW will fetch a reasonable return.
2. Classify these for sale or auction (with scans) and set the rest safely aside. Fortunately you have cat. numbers to help.
2. Determine the current cat values online (Stamp World) and apply a realistic discount. Ebay, Ebid, Delcampe, Colnect etc.
3. Replenish the sale items from the main stock periodically, again randomly.
4. Bequeath the remainder of the collection to charity in your will.
Even this approach will keep you employed full time, and it is hoped, gainfully.
Thank you for taking the time to offer some tips. Since the video's were done, I've sorted most of the stamps in the video's into Vario stock pages. It gives the collection a much better look and I'm able to tell how many of each stamp I have. Plus it's easy to add to the pages as I find more in other boxes. It's been a while since I've worked on them, but plan to finish that group of stamps and do a follow up video with them sorted, since I've been getting many requests.
I bounce around between stamps, coins, comic books, sports cards, and non sports cards. Just so I don't get tired of the same thing. This way, my hobbies continue to be enjoyable. Currently I'm focused on coins and baseball cards.
I dont get why people put the stamps in glassine envelopes, you cant get as much enjoyment out of them as you do on stock pages in a album
I agree. When I was a kid, I remember going to the post office and buying the newest plate blocks of each of the stamps. The post office would also put them in the glassine envelopes. The only purpose that I saw from them was that the new stamps with the glued backs, wouldn’t stick to the glassine material. Especially when you lived in a humid location. Plus stock books back then were either made of cardboard or they used glassine strips. I show them in my video on how to remove self adhesive stamps from paper. It wasn’t until 30 or 40 years ago that I first saw the high quality German stamp supplies. Nowadays all I use are the Vario pages for my stamps. The prices add up, but they present the stamps so well.
The guy was probably a dealer
Did you give up yet? Did you miss anything? Do you need/want help?
nothing and nothing this box no have nothing only much stamps very simple