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06:19:35pm
Well this was no exception, except he told me he thought there was a good chance of some really good items. Well if there are I don't see them! He's a really nice person so I'll take a reasonable amount of time hoping to find at least one treasure. If that doesn't happen I have to find a way, again, to break the bad news about his father's stamp book.
I bet a lot of you run into this on a fairly regular basis!!
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It is always difficult to break bad news. The looks you get when you tell them it is worth very little or tell them to use the stamps in the presentation packs for postage!
For some friends of the family I agreed to list the contents of their fathers Album,(like the one you described), on Ebay for them. In this case I was happy to do it because there was a reasonable amount of Queen Victoria British Commonwealth and they were happy with the result of £300+
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Our local club is often visited by such a person as you describe.
It is at times a sad task to have to dash their hopes of hidden riches when we tell them - as we nearly every time do - that what they have has minimal, if any, value monetarily.
However, we do try to instill in them that they could view it as having sentimental value to them - and possibly in turn to inspire them to begin collecting themselves!
Many times, they just donate it to our club and it ends up on a free-for-kids table at a local show....minus the odd precancel or PNC someone wanted.
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For the reasons stated previously by others, I stopped evaluating collections several years ago. I'll never forget one. I phoned the woman and told her that I wasn't interested and would like to return her father's collection. She refused to come to the door, so I just left it there. I'll never forget the material he accumulated that was so misrepresented that it just didn't make any sense.
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26 Apr 2023
06:19:35pm
My mail delivery person knows I collect stamps so he presented me with his late father's stamp book to have a look at. This has happened to me multiple times and it is usually one of the mid century stamp books that had a page or less for each country and you put the stuff in there you got off envelopes and maybe the odd older item they happened to run across. Almost everything is lower denomination material!
Well this was no exception, except he told me he thought there was a good chance of some really good items. Well if there are I don't see them! He's a really nice person so I'll take a reasonable amount of time hoping to find at least one treasure. If that doesn't happen I have to find a way, again, to break the bad news about his father's stamp book.
I bet a lot of you run into this on a fairly regular basis!!
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Aye!
It is always difficult to break bad news. The looks you get when you tell them it is worth very little or tell them to use the stamps in the presentation packs for postage!
For some friends of the family I agreed to list the contents of their fathers Album,(like the one you described), on Ebay for them. In this case I was happy to do it because there was a reasonable amount of Queen Victoria British Commonwealth and they were happy with the result of £300+
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re: How often does this happen to you?
Our local club is often visited by such a person as you describe.
It is at times a sad task to have to dash their hopes of hidden riches when we tell them - as we nearly every time do - that what they have has minimal, if any, value monetarily.
However, we do try to instill in them that they could view it as having sentimental value to them - and possibly in turn to inspire them to begin collecting themselves!
Many times, they just donate it to our club and it ends up on a free-for-kids table at a local show....minus the odd precancel or PNC someone wanted.
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For the reasons stated previously by others, I stopped evaluating collections several years ago. I'll never forget one. I phoned the woman and told her that I wasn't interested and would like to return her father's collection. She refused to come to the door, so I just left it there. I'll never forget the material he accumulated that was so misrepresented that it just didn't make any sense.
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