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Title: victorian }british empire stamps } albums
Post by: brigidmac on Sunday 11 July 21 21:53 BST (UK)

i now have 4 stamp collections
my own started  in 1967:with a gift of a victoria penny red   
and has firstday covers from 1965 to 1976

my uncles started in 1920 but contains older stamps from all ; worldwided
Rowland hill book
 
one is in a ring binder starts with victorian stamp page
may have belonged to uncles father b 1890 whose collection stopped in 1960s

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https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=849917.msg7174087#msg7174087


cousins is in a stanley gibbons box it cost 30 shillings  1968 maybe

and a big tin of loose stamps from1930 onwards

i dont know whether to try and combine collsctions
keep as is
or sell

*Why cant i add reply

Title: Re: victorian }british empire stamps } albums
Post by: dawnsh on Monday 12 July 21 10:16 BST (UK)

Moved to the common room to enable comments

Title: Re: victorian }british empire stamps } albums
Post by: mckha489 on Monday 12 July 21 10:31 BST (UK)

I have a similar combination.  When I carefully wrote out the whole list and asked a dealer they told me to use the mint ones for real postage and bin the rest.

(I've still got them.  Planning to do a collage with them sometime.........)

Title: Re: victorian }british empire stamps } albums
Post by: Top-of-the-hill on Monday 12 July 21 10:49 BST (UK)

  I also have a multi-generational stamp collection. Some from my father, some from an uncle, my own childhood collection and my son's 1980s albums.
  I also have a more recent collection of my own, started in the 80s and continued in a sporadic fashion - mainly the prettier UK mint sets.
  Australia and New Zealand have produced some good Christmas stamps!
  I have no illusions about any of it being valuable.

Title: Re: victorian }british empire stamps } albums
Post by: brigidmac on Monday 12 July 21 12:37 BST (UK)

I agree market trader said first day covers are only worth £1 each
There may be a few rare stamps among then but the hinges used spoil the backs

I don't want to keep them all
Charities accept bags of stamps but children could learn a lot from then

I started collecting age 7 given a penny red by a fervent collector who bought and sold at fairs and taught me to count perforations and look for watermarks and graphite lines
By age 9 I was specialising in British stamps and gave foreign ones to my sister .

I ticked of in the Stanley gibbons guide which ones I had wrote reference numbers and values

Unused stamps from past are valid for postage but what if they are valued at half a crown or 1/6d ?

Title: Re: victorian }british empire stamps } albums
Post by: Top-of-the-hill on Monday 12 July 21 13:28 BST (UK)

 "Unused stamps from past are valid for postage but what if they are valued at half a crown or 1/6d ?"
 
   I imagine that might present a problem!

Title: Re: victorian }british empire stamps } albums
Post by: arthurk on Monday 12 July 21 16:06 BST (UK)

Quote from: brigidmac on Monday 12 July 21 12:37 BST (UK)

Unused stamps from past are valid for postage but what if they are valued at half a crown or 1/6d ?

That's an interesting question, which sent me off into a rabbit hole for a while. It appears that nearly all stamps with pre-decimal values are no longer valid, the only exception being those for £1 which bear the head of Queen Elizabeth II. See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_stamp_demonetization#United_Kingdom

That article says that the decimal stamps with a half penny value (eg 2½p) are still valid, though in one discussion I found someone said this had been disputed.

In any case, though, with ordinary 2nd class postage now costing 66p and 1st class 85p (approx 13/2d and 17s in old money :o), would the ancient stamps make a useful contribution to that - and would the envelope be big enough to fit them on? ;D :-\

Title: Re: victorian }british empire stamps } albums
Post by: Top-of-the-hill on Monday 12 July 21 16:23 BST (UK)

  I have occasionally bought stamps from dealers, and they often arrive with a selection of old pictorial stamps on the envelope.

Title: Re: victorian }british empire stamps } albums
Post by: Andrew Tarr on Monday 12 July 21 16:56 BST (UK)

I was quite a keen collector while I was a teenager.  I imagined that keeping up with new issues was a worthwhile aim, but the increasing flow of new cheese-labels mainly intended to extract money from collectors gradually lost its appeal.  Although I still have my collection, it hasn't changed much since then, as other interests have taken over.

Being so out of touch, I have no idea whether philately is as popular as it was.  One occasionally reads of the famously unique British Guiana stamp changing hands, and I suspect it may now be more a matter of investing in antiques than it was. These days only a small proportion of mail arrives bearing a stamp, with businesses using special envelopes, and private people communicating by more modern faster methods.

Title: Re: victorian }british empire stamps } albums
Post by: brigidmac on Tuesday 13 July 21 03:48 BST (UK)

For fun i may post a letter to myself with some of the unused ones that i jave doubles of .will let you know !

Title: Re: victorian }british empire stamps } albums
Post by: josey on Tuesday 13 July 21 09:56 BST (UK)

Quote from: Top-of-the-hill on Monday 12 July 21 16:23 BST (UK)

  I have occasionally bought stamps from dealers, and they often arrive with a selection of old pictorial stamps on the envelope.

Mr Josey does too, much to the amusement & interest of the postie.

Title: Re: victorian }british empire stamps } albums
Post by: brigidmac on Tuesday 13 July 21 14:27 BST (UK)

Thats good to know.im goimg to send letter to a friend who believes in time travel !