r/stampcollecting

Hi! I’ve never been into stamp collecting, but I AM an avid collector of all things old and neat, so it was only a matter of time.

Anyway, these were my grandpas. He was an antique collector and dealer, but I honestly never even knew he collected stamps. These were just out in his shed in a huge cigar box.

I want to pull some of the more interesting ones for display, but I’m unsure how to do that. Does anyone have any suggestions for mounting them in a safe way? I only went through a couple envelopes from the top of the box today, and these were some of my favorite ones. Does anyone know anything particularly interesting about any of these? Would it be okay for me to share more as I go? Thanks in advance for any advice!

As title says- inherited a great deal of stamps, don’t know how to proceed- it was my grandfather’s collection and is all just bundled together. Really not sure what is worth what, or how to go about determining said worth

Hello, I was given this collection with the information that it is „extremely valuable“ without too much context. The collector was quite wealthy and the stamps look like I imagine rare stamps to look, but who am I to judge. Most of the stamps seem to be German. I post more pictures in the next answer. Perhaps you can help? Best, Thom

Each province and territory has their own cannabis duty stamps. I can't buy product from NWT as I don't live there. I have duty stamps for all except NWT. Yes I even have Nunavut! So I'm trying to find someone to purchase 2 gummie packs and mail them to me. They can keep the gummies I'll pay and only interested in the undamaged duty stamps to complete my collection

Just got all of these Russian and USSR stamps. All of them are new with gum intact except for the three Fokker stamps I believe. Anything worth putting extra care into?

1822, 1828 & 1836 British Pre-Stamp Postal History — Help Identifying Handstamps/Rates

I recently acquired three British pre-stamp covers/entires dated 1822, 1828 and 1836.

The 1822 piece appears to be Edinburgh to Robert Tennant Esq., Commercial Bank, Belfast, with a red Edinburgh datestamp, boxed black handstamp and manuscript rate markings.

The 1828 piece is Liverpool to the Wilton Hotel, Regent Street, London, with a red LIVERPOOL 28 NO 28 datestamp, an additional red handstamp and manuscript rate markings.

The third is dated February 1836 and also has an early red datestamp and manuscript postal markings.

I'm particularly interested in identifying the exact handstamp types, postal rates/routes, and relative scarcity of these markings.

If anyone specializes in British pre-stamp postal history, I'd really appreciate your thoughts. I'm also interested in recommendations for reference works/catalogues that would let me properly identify and classify these.

If any of these are significant enough to warrant expertization or a specialist auction house, I'd appreciate recommendations for that as well.

Thanks!

Thought I would share one of my stamp albums. Would be interested to hear what people think or if there was anything that is particular rare. I don’t think there is but it’s not exceptionally laid out but better then average in my opinion.

Always amazed that there are countries I have never heard of.(not in pictures but in album)

My dad used to do this! Made me smile today!

Can anyone tell me about them? There is a lot more :)

Today I received the newest addition to my photo philately collection.

I bought this 1993 Fleetwood 2765 WORLD WAR II 1943 V-Mail - Letters From Around the World cover on eBay for $4.75, including the taxes and shipping.

According to the description on the rear of the cover:

““Frequent and rapid communication with parents, associates, and other loved ones strengthens fortitude, enlivens patrio-tism, makes loneliness endurable, and inspires to even greater devotion the men and women who are carrying on our fight far from home and friends." This statement from the U.S. Post Office Department was especially true during World War II when thousands of U.S. troops were shipped to every corner of the world. As the war escalated, the task of delivering mail between the U.S. and these often remote and "classified" locations grew increasingly difficult and more cumbersome Thus, V-mail was born. This new technology for sending mail, which carried the popular "V" for victory as part of its name, greatly trimmed the number of bulky mail bags that formerly occupied precious cargo space. To send a V-mail letter, the message was penned on a special form and directed to a postal facility. There the letter was opened, censored, reduced by a photographic process and recorded on film. It was the film, not the written letter, that was transported to its destination post office. One sack of V-mail weighing 45 pounds could replace 37 sacks of conventional mail weighing an astounding 2,575 pounds. At the post office, the filmed letter was enlarged on photographic paper. In the space of about 10 days, even a letter sent to a little-known location, would arrive at its intended destination. This boon to wartime mail delivery was also a great aid in boosting morale on both fronts, overseas and at home.”

I previously added a V-mail envelope to my photo philately collection. I’m excited to continue to do research and add additional pieces related to this important military use of photographic equipment in postal history.

Do you have any v-mail in your stamp collection? Tell me about it by commenting below.

Hey! I’ve rifled through some old boxes on my balcony and stumbled across this collection. Most of the stamps are soviet and mostly they are dated from 1950’s to 1980’s. There are some US, Indian, Mongolian, Australian and Thai stamps as well. Check this out!!

Hello!

I'm a stamp collector.

I'm from Korea, and I have a lot of Korean stamps.

I want to have stamps from other countries.

We’re going to put our own stamps in envelopes and send them to each other.

The idea I have right now is that we decide on an amount and send stamps with a total face value equal to that amount.

Or, we could look for stamps that the other person wants and send them to each other.

I have lots of other stamps besides the ones shown in the photo.

If you’re interested, feel free to contact me.

Have a nice day !!

I posted yesterday about whether I should go and all the comments motivated me to go and it was so fun. Everyone was so nice. I got so much free stuff and I wasn’t even trying to get anything.

There was an auction which was open only to members and one guy was like just become a member and he paid the 5 dollar due for me to join (they only took cash and I didn’t think to bring any, rookie mistake lol), and then when I won a lot of duck stamps for 3 dollars he paid for it too. I said I would pay him back but he insisted that he didn’t need the money and there was no need. I felt like I was taking advantage of him and said I’d pay him back anyways and he just told me to pay it forward if I wanted, so I will.

And the anther guy gifted me a souvenir sheet, 3 blocks of 4 new stamps, and some stock book pages.

They also had bins of used stamps on paper that you could just take for free. It was all so nice and some of them showed me some of the stamps they had (like the rarer more expensive ones). Anyways they didn’t really have newer higher denominations stamps with them but I have a feeling if I keep going people will start bringing stuff.

Anyways I had such a good experience after being so nervous I wanted to share.

I'm overwhelmed by the amount of stamps in this box, I layed out about half and gave up. I think they might have been my granddads collection from when he was young. I'm so intrigued, i wish i could ask him about it.

Good day to you, I was handed an envelope with 2 stamps in it, with 2 US Scott C76, 1969 10¢ First Man on the Moon. Inside the envelope, there was a paper that reads as follows:
Plate Flaw
Cut in moon below earth
Earth upper left is white
Rail cuts in to leg on lander

are these something that I can search for? I haven't been able to find anything useful so far, so I thought I would ask

Thank you for looking