Discussion - Member to Member Sales - Research Center
Discussion - Member to Member Sales - Research Center
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Part of the reason is that many collectors already have the older issues. The newer stuff probably sells faster only because many collectors are missing all of the numerous recent stamps not that they prefer them in any way. And it's a lot harder to find postally used modern.
The majority of my wishlists look like this: pricy early issues and varieties then recent postally used, with 1940 - 2000 generally mostly complete.
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I got a huge lot of FDCs, much of which straddles the century line from the 1990s on up. I'm not a fan of stamps from that era to date. Large multi stamp sets about nothing, and all from the era when I wasn't collecting.
I started putting these up for sale on eBay... a lot of them sell instantly!
All I can think is that younger folks are attracted to the designs and topics USPS chooses to commemorate. I guess it's that appeal to the general public. I know non collecting friends of mine think the rock star stamps are cool.
And I remember back in the day when I was collecting. I liked the stamps of the 1960s, while the older collectors saw them as colorful labels and they stopped making real stamps in 1958!
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30 Dec 2022
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It amazes me how much interest there is in newer stamps, even if they are used. A book of newer used Canadian stamps just came out a few minutes ago and it is already half gone. I don't mean this to put the buyers down, but I can't see why gorgeous old engraved stamps just sit there and the newer photograveur(?) stuff sells right away. I see absolutely beautiful stamps from Mozambique Company and Nyassa just sit there. Maybe part of it is the country, but I'm afraid I just don't see the appeal to most of the newer stuff. But, maybe it's bias on my part, but even though my Canada cutoff is 1988, I still buy the Canada year books because I do find the Canada stuff more attractive than most. And Canada does seem to be the area whose newer material disappears the quickest. I showed my Canada collection to a friend and instead of the older material she zoomed right in on the newer material and preferred the whale stamp to the Bluenose stamp! I still prefer the older material, but I guess we're all different.
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re: Wow, new stamps really sell from some countries!!
Part of the reason is that many collectors already have the older issues. The newer stuff probably sells faster only because many collectors are missing all of the numerous recent stamps not that they prefer them in any way. And it's a lot harder to find postally used modern.
The majority of my wishlists look like this: pricy early issues and varieties then recent postally used, with 1940 - 2000 generally mostly complete.
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re: Wow, new stamps really sell from some countries!!
I got a huge lot of FDCs, much of which straddles the century line from the 1990s on up. I'm not a fan of stamps from that era to date. Large multi stamp sets about nothing, and all from the era when I wasn't collecting.
I started putting these up for sale on eBay... a lot of them sell instantly!
All I can think is that younger folks are attracted to the designs and topics USPS chooses to commemorate. I guess it's that appeal to the general public. I know non collecting friends of mine think the rock star stamps are cool.
And I remember back in the day when I was collecting. I liked the stamps of the 1960s, while the older collectors saw them as colorful labels and they stopped making real stamps in 1958!
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