Collecting stamps and Future values?

Question

Hello, what do you think? Someone is offering to sell me 2000 stamps from different countires for 10 cent each. what do you think ?could these stamps have valuable price in the future?

Answer 1

I would keep my $20 in my pocket and look for somewhere else to spend it.

Many countries make commemoratives just for the purpose of selling to collectors. The value when they are printed will only decrease. Actually, the US is an offender in that category.

In the US, stamps up until the early 30s retained their value and gained value over time. Now, however, after that period, the stamps produced by the US (from about the mid 30s onward) can hardly retain their face value even if they are unused.

I have bundles of plate blocks from the 30s, 40s, 50s that are only good for postage unless I can find some unwise person who will pay for them more than their face value. They are all unused and actually no good for anything other than postage. Those were the old $0.03 per letter stamps and for uncancelled stamps, stamp stores will give me about one penny each.

Many of the smaller nations realize that stamp collectors will buy things come hell or high water. So they roll them out by the tons. More often than not, they are different shapes, beautifully photographed images, or painted images, and they dump them on the US market. They do the same thing with special coin issues. Both the coins and the stamps remain without value.

If you want to collect stamps, and it is fun, what I would do is to specialize in one country, like the US, and keep trying to buy the oldees and goodees. If you want to learn geography, collecting stamps from all over the world will be a great educational value to you, but you will have no value in the stamps.

During WWII, the US put out a myriad of special commemorative stamps that have quite a historical interest. The commemorate such things as WWII battles, the three chaplains in the Navy that chose to give their life jackets to sailors, and thus drowned, the five brothers who went down on one ship, and things like that. These are interesting, historical, and very nice, but are not packed with value. I would start a collection from 1950 back of uncancelled stamps at least four in a plate block with the plate block number on them, put them in plastic (they used to use hinges and take them into volumes) and file them in a manner where you can find them and keep them in order. That would be an inexpensive way to start and if you enjoy it, you can keep on doing it.

The word Philately, or how ever you spell it, does not mean "stamp collector," it means "love of things untaxed" and stamps are untaxed.

I collected stamps alongside my grandfather for many years. Ihave his volumes, which he started about 1895 or so, with US stamps from the beginning of stamps up until the time of my grandfather's death in 1956. I estimate the value of the collection between $30,000 and $40,000, so in the older stamps, future values can be good.

Answer 2

10 cents each is toooooo much. Usually

Qu to ask:

1. Are these from countries I have heard of? Ahjman is a stamp issuing country, and issues many stamps, but they are not of any value to the philatelic community.

2. Are these stamps CTOs (canceled to Order) If so they are worthless to the majority of the philatelic community

3. Are these stamps definitives (small and issued in HUGE quantities) or commemoratives (Larger usually and not such large printings) The commems are better value.

4. Are these stamps modern (1960 and onwards) or old (Pre 1960) Stamps were 'invented' in the 1840's.

This is probably not a good deal unless it is a private sale by a guy who is NOT a dealer. Take pictures if you can, or ask for them and take the pics to a dealer in your city.

Answer 3

Stamps do not go up in value that much in general. I would say no.

Answer 4

It depends, what type of stamps are they?

If they are Pictoral, then its for collectors, but really, you never know. You have to be more specific because the stamps you are buying are random.

Where are you buying them anyways?