$110 for an Old Stamp Album?
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When folks ask me about the cost of stamp collecting, I always answer: it’s cheaper than therapy and just as effective! Fun video!
Agreed! And thanks for the encouragement... I'm new to TH-cam, glad to know you enjoyed my video...
I love the answer. I started collecting stamps in 1972 and still doing it. And you are right Deborah: it is cheaper than therapy and as effective.
When I started in '79 I was 10-11 and a friend of my father gave me an Yvert overseas catalogue. It taught me French, geography and history in one go. I was the only one in class that knew where the Falkland Islands were and the history of them, when Argentina and Great-Britain went to war over them.
You did very well. Although stamps were taken from this album, a lot of good old stamps remain. For one thing, there were stamps that caught your attention that you enjoyed seeing regardless of catalog value; and that is worth a lot. Stamps are history, they can tell you a lot about the country that they come from. They help you picture what the times must have been like when they were issued. You may find valuable stamps by carefully going through an old album like that. Look out especially for varieties, like plate numbers in scroll work of the British Penny Reds, watermarks, etc. Even the common Austrian newspaper stamps have some better varieties. Very often you can find overlooked value in something like this.
Look at all the fun you will get for 110.00 Hell you can spend that on a dinner going out.
Absolutely agree... winter is long where I live, stamps really help...
@@silkontheweb Yep. Sometimes we get caught up with finding that rare stamp in a book. Shouldn't be like that. Enjoy the philately hobby and if you find a gem then thats a bonus.
You did fine ..You got stamps you'd never find...unless you spent the money ..The history of these stamps alone are priceless .
I am 73 years old, I have been collecting stamps since I was 8 yrs old, I have approximately 235000 worldwide stamps in my collections, I specialize in British colonies, and countries which no longer exsist. I am working on Canadian stamps from provinces which issued their own stamps, before Canada was organized, at the present time.
I would like to purchase old collections .
What fun countries to collect! Thanks for sharing.
EXCELLENT
235,000 stamps!!!! How on earth would you catalog a collection of that size???!!!
i think you did very very well. 1 thing if you want to keep the album without the stamps you could buy mounts and redo the album instead of the hinges and repair the pages. or cut them out and put them in a A4 protected sheets and get a ringed folder to put them in. I have been collecting for 52[1971] years with Greece, New Zealand, Cyprus, Cook islands, England
Nice choices of countries to collect! Beautiful stamps...
Fantastic video!! I share the same view as you, I love the fact each and every stamp is a piece of physical history. Almost a direct link back to when they were used, and who used them. Great album too, so many wonderful old stamps.
Where they were used , by who and why ! Real history,i purchased many collections from local auctions in my country,found many old covers of letters with the letter still inside the envelope ,one of the letters where from England in the year 1939 where the sender wrote they were busy last week preparing for the war ! All he used stamps has special stories,regards.
To me, when you have an old album, and it was made by The Strand, that got me interested. Sherlock Holmes stories were first published in the Strand.
I love collecting stamps and have done for 60 years. I find videos such as this very relaxing to watch and I really enjoyed this one so thank you. But the album was expensive for what it contained as the condition was terrible for virtually every stamp that was not so common with the better one’s already removed. EBay is Russian Roulette for buying stamps and especially collections. Good buys are possible but are surrounded by others which sell for more than their market value.
I strongly recommend buying at stamp auction houses instead as you can travel and view the entire collection if not too far away but even if you can’t, they are usually fairly described and have online photos to gain an impression of what it is like. I would expect to pay between £25 and £50 for the album you showed here. An entire large box of perhaps 6 or 7 similar albums and stock books I could buy at my favourite Newcastle auction for between £100 and £200.
But I now tend to pay more for better quality. A superb Foreign (no British Commonwealth countries) collection housed in 2 Stanley Gibbons New Ideal albums with spaces for every stamp up to 1936 has just been sold there where the pages have been removed and split up into single country lots or grouped together into a few similar countries. I bought collections of Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras as one lot and single country collections of Colombia, Cuba, France (superb) and Mexico for prices ranging between £78 and £240. Most of the spaces are filled and every stamp is in mint not used condition which makes them considerably rarer and more valuable than used stamps generally speaking. Condition is generally excellent throughout with hardly an imperfection in sight. Bidders were successful from countries as diverse as Ukraine to Thailand which shows the international appeal of stamps and how interesting the material being offered was. I have bid at their auctions for many years and now love the fact that you can take part in the auction from home in real time, with the entire auction being live streamed for free.
You did well on that album. Surprised the previous owner didn't cherrypick the US section. I love the documentary ships, and they looked to be in good shape. BTW, Cyril is a masculine name. What I really enjoyed about the album is that it showed all the watermarks! I've never seen an album that did that. I'm just getting into watermarks and it is amazing how the right one can raise the price of a stamp a LOT! As far as Austrian newspaper stamps, don't discount them; I just discovered one that's worth a massive amount of money in an old album. Massive. You can probably figure out which one. Needless to say I was shocked and thrilled.
Nice find!
Nice and relaxing video. You’ll probably find that Cyril is a man’s name. It’s a wonderful classic SG album of the 20’s (perhaps?) Nice glazed pages - impede foxing. Keep enjoying your retirement.
Thanks for letting me know!
ya did good... i have// know just about all the stamps in that album; i'd say $$ 110 was a. bargain...ya done good!
Huh, judging from only the first few pages you did pretty well. The album looks well preserved and like no one has gone through it yet to pick out the best stamps like sometimes will be the case with albums like this.
Ah someone did go through it already, a shame, but still a lot of nice stamps left!
Agreed! And thanks for joining in the conversation... so disappointing to see a hinge remnant, but overall still pleased...
I don't know if you made a good deal or not but I love the album. I think it's going to be a good addition in your shelves. ENJOY THEM!
Will do! And thanks for joining the conversation
Nice album, although a shame it had been cherry-picked. I think you did ok. Love the penny reds. Look forward to more videos.
Thanks for the nice note! Means a lot to me.
Love your videos mate!!! Cheers from Qld, Australia!!!
Beautiful video! I started collecting stamps since I was about 8 yrs. old and stopped during my later college years - just got back into it about 5 yrs. ago. Also collected baseball cards (mainly wax boxes and sets) from '95 through '98 until I realized it was not a good way to spend my disposable income on boxes from mostly the junk wax era. But I totally get the collectible bug - I also collected vinyl LPs in the past, postcards (mostly stamped), among other things. Still have them all in my storage - need to find a way to unload them in my retirement years, which isn't far away.
Our journeys sound very similar... returning to stamps has been such a great choice for me... happy collecting!
Many years ago I purchased a worldwide collection in international albums for $25,000. Great collection.
I think You did great, excellent buy, but like they say, first of all It's for the Love of Stamp Collecting, then if You find a very valuable stamp, well, sell it, what the heck.
super 😊
Nice beginners collection of old worldwide.
You sounded so disgruntled when you said, "or just a bill." 😂 Like paying a bill is the worst possible thing to do with a stamp. As always, great content.
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15:15 entire pages cut from album !!
1 st comment re CYRIL......thats a guys name !
When I pick up a lot, I am happy if I paid about 10% catalog AND find a dozen or so stamps I needed
That's exactly my thinking too!
Hi i have a strand likke that too.
Hi.... just found your channel via someone's post on a stamp collecting FB page..... one question - while its great to have and make use of your grandfathers pocket knife, why don't you use stamp tongs/tweezers to point out stamps ? Looking forward to watching more of your videos.
Hi! And thanks for commenting and the encouragement... just sentimentality, I use stamp tweezers mostly... (I'm also getting new ones, because my current ones aren't great...)
Cyril is a man's name.
Will you do a video on how to safely remove stamps from envelopes and postcards? I know there are a ton of videos on YT on how to do this but was curious what method you prefer
I did, felt like the obligatory video to do (there are a lot of videos out there...) My tweak on it is I use vinyl albums (LPs) during the drying process, because of the plastic wrap they have. I've tried drying books but honestly they're not my favorite, they're expensive and don't do all that better of a job imho.
@@silkontheweb ok I must have missed that video, I'll look for it
Did you ever do a video on your retirement strategy?
Not yet... it's on my radar...
@@silkontheweb looking forward to it! Thanks
Need similar offer if possible
Will do!
that is not a girl 's name by the way
Anything is worth what you are prepared to pay for it t
Well said!