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I would say that those who collect booklets may not collect coins and visa versa.
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I believe most put singles of every format in one album but put complete booklet panes, coil strips, entire sheets, etc each in separate albums.
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You have a very special collection. The vast majority of people would not collect EVERY format; that you did makes it comprehensive and almost like a reference library. I like the way you have it arranged now chronologically. I think you'd do better to market it like that. You might get more for it.
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Thank you. The problem with keeping it by year is that I think dealers who buy stamps,usually take the highest valued items out of the collection, leaving the rest for postage or to sell at face value or below. Do I keep the recalled "Legends of the West" pane with the panes or the high valued items?
I guess for me the larger question is, am I ready to consider that my collection is something which will be liquidated after I die either a by a dealer, auctioneer, or my non-collector sons. And should I be the one to separate the wheat from the chaff? Or should the yearly collections be kept intact in hopes that an auctioneer might sell them as one lot?
I welcome other thoughts. Thanks.
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"The problem with keeping it by year is that I think dealers who buy stamps,usually take the highest valued items out of the collection, leaving the rest for postage or to sell at face value or below."
Very true statement. If you do end up making the decision to sell, I would always try to sell to a collector first. But yes, I think you're right; you sell it to a dealer and they're going to cherry pick the items that they can move quickly for the largest profit margin.
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If it is a modern collection sold in as a collection, it will not get much for it no matter how you organize.
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Here are some images of how I collected modern US. I do have a Mystic Heirloom for singles that stops around 2017 when I gave up on US.
One year I created custom pages and mounted them. Pages were back to back in poly sleeves.
This is how most of the latest US is stored. I insert the booklet pane, coil strips (as sold by USPS), or sheet in a poly sleeve and inserted some paper to create a 2 sided storage. The cat number is on a strip of paper. My singles collection stopped around 2017.
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Hi, I buy modern collections (Sheets PB. Booklets Singles etc. Larger lots $300.00+ When all together they sell for less. I give 60-85% of face value. I may give more depends on what is in them. Smaller lots will bring more. I just bought $3000.00 lot for $2000.00 but has some bad sheets. a lot of postage. Would have gotten more if they would separated out the good stamps and postage to smaller lots. Hope that helps
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All very useful information, thanks. In response to a couple of the suggestions, some "modern" issues (past 25 years) are valued at more than face, but usually not commemoratives. I have also found that placing stamps with their multiple formats in Vario pages, some of them also in Hawid mounts, allows more flexibility (and ease of removal for inspection) than a standard album.
Most issues that have different formats and varieties (coils, booklets, panes, water or self activated, perf and printing varieties) seem to be "regular" issues, so I might keep regulars separately and highlight the unusual items on a separate page in front. I'll keep high denomination plate blocks (Express, Priority, Global) separately. Not sure about high denom regulars ($1,$2,$5, $10).
I wonder if that would be more appealing to a potential buyer, dealer or auctioneer, although I do know most of my valuable stamps are in my other collections.
Any other comments are welcome.
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I have been collecting all new US issues in all formats (panes, unexploded booklets, coils, varieties since 1999. Each year has its own notebook. To make it easier to sell the stamps, should I organize them by format: one book for coils, one for booklets, etc. Should Priority and Express mail stamps be a separate book. Or should they be organized by theme: Flag Stamps, Black Heritage, Transportation coils, Great Americans, etc. Thoughts? Thanks.
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I would say that those who collect booklets may not collect coins and visa versa.
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I believe most put singles of every format in one album but put complete booklet panes, coil strips, entire sheets, etc each in separate albums.
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You have a very special collection. The vast majority of people would not collect EVERY format; that you did makes it comprehensive and almost like a reference library. I like the way you have it arranged now chronologically. I think you'd do better to market it like that. You might get more for it.
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Thank you. The problem with keeping it by year is that I think dealers who buy stamps,usually take the highest valued items out of the collection, leaving the rest for postage or to sell at face value or below. Do I keep the recalled "Legends of the West" pane with the panes or the high valued items?
I guess for me the larger question is, am I ready to consider that my collection is something which will be liquidated after I die either a by a dealer, auctioneer, or my non-collector sons. And should I be the one to separate the wheat from the chaff? Or should the yearly collections be kept intact in hopes that an auctioneer might sell them as one lot?
I welcome other thoughts. Thanks.
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"The problem with keeping it by year is that I think dealers who buy stamps,usually take the highest valued items out of the collection, leaving the rest for postage or to sell at face value or below."
Very true statement. If you do end up making the decision to sell, I would always try to sell to a collector first. But yes, I think you're right; you sell it to a dealer and they're going to cherry pick the items that they can move quickly for the largest profit margin.
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If it is a modern collection sold in as a collection, it will not get much for it no matter how you organize.
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Here are some images of how I collected modern US. I do have a Mystic Heirloom for singles that stops around 2017 when I gave up on US.
One year I created custom pages and mounted them. Pages were back to back in poly sleeves.
This is how most of the latest US is stored. I insert the booklet pane, coil strips (as sold by USPS), or sheet in a poly sleeve and inserted some paper to create a 2 sided storage. The cat number is on a strip of paper. My singles collection stopped around 2017.
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Hi, I buy modern collections (Sheets PB. Booklets Singles etc. Larger lots $300.00+ When all together they sell for less. I give 60-85% of face value. I may give more depends on what is in them. Smaller lots will bring more. I just bought $3000.00 lot for $2000.00 but has some bad sheets. a lot of postage. Would have gotten more if they would separated out the good stamps and postage to smaller lots. Hope that helps
Keep on stamping
Richard
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All very useful information, thanks. In response to a couple of the suggestions, some "modern" issues (past 25 years) are valued at more than face, but usually not commemoratives. I have also found that placing stamps with their multiple formats in Vario pages, some of them also in Hawid mounts, allows more flexibility (and ease of removal for inspection) than a standard album.
Most issues that have different formats and varieties (coils, booklets, panes, water or self activated, perf and printing varieties) seem to be "regular" issues, so I might keep regulars separately and highlight the unusual items on a separate page in front. I'll keep high denomination plate blocks (Express, Priority, Global) separately. Not sure about high denom regulars ($1,$2,$5, $10).
I wonder if that would be more appealing to a potential buyer, dealer or auctioneer, although I do know most of my valuable stamps are in my other collections.
Any other comments are welcome.
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