$110 for an Old Stamp Album?

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@deborahlee9972 Жыл бұрын

When folks ask me about the cost of stamp collecting, I always answer: it’s cheaper than therapy and just as effective! Fun video!

@silkontheweb Жыл бұрын

Agreed! And thanks for the encouragement... I'm new to KZbin, glad to know you enjoyed my video...

@davidcolombier5673 Жыл бұрын

I love the answer. I started collecting stamps in 1972 and still doing it. And you are right Deborah: it is cheaper than therapy and as effective.

@Enevan1968 Жыл бұрын

When I started in '79 I was 10-11 and a friend of my father gave me an Yvert overseas catalogue. It taught me French, geography and history in one go. I was the only one in class that knew where the Falkland Islands were and the history of them, when Argentina and Great-Britain went to war over them.

@davidjosephcosta Жыл бұрын

You did fine ..You got stamps you'd never find...unless you spent the money ..The history of these stamps alone are priceless .

@willardtaylor6249 4 ай бұрын

You did very well. Although stamps were taken from this album, a lot of good old stamps remain. For one thing, there were stamps that caught your attention that you enjoyed seeing regardless of catalog value; and that is worth a lot. Stamps are history, they can tell you a lot about the country that they come from. They help you picture what the times must have been like when they were issued. You may find valuable stamps by carefully going through an old album like that. Look out especially for varieties, like plate numbers in scroll work of the British Penny Reds, watermarks, etc. Even the common Austrian newspaper stamps have some better varieties. Very often you can find overlooked value in something like this.

@fin59shaw 12 сағат бұрын

To me, when you have an old album, and it was made by The Strand, that got me interested. Sherlock Holmes stories were first published in the Strand.

@philatelovely5748 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic video!! I share the same view as you, I love the fact each and every stamp is a piece of physical history. Almost a direct link back to when they were used, and who used them. Great album too, so many wonderful old stamps.

@alexanbas8154 Жыл бұрын

Where they were used , by who and why ! Real history,i purchased many collections from local auctions in my country,found many old covers of letters with the letter still inside the envelope ,one of the letters where from England in the year 1939 where the sender wrote they were busy last week preparing for the war ! All he used stamps has special stories,regards.

@leesautomotive1737 Жыл бұрын

Look at all the fun you will get for 110.00 Hell you can spend that on a dinner going out.

@silkontheweb Жыл бұрын

Absolutely agree... winter is long where I live, stamps really help...

@leesautomotive1737 Жыл бұрын

@@silkontheweb Yep. Sometimes we get caught up with finding that rare stamp in a book. Shouldn't be like that. Enjoy the philately hobby and if you find a gem then thats a bonus.

@MrRayadas Жыл бұрын

I am 73 years old, I have been collecting stamps since I was 8 yrs old, I have approximately 235000 worldwide stamps in my collections, I specialize in British colonies, and countries which no longer exsist. I am working on Canadian stamps from provinces which issued their own stamps, before Canada was organized, at the present time. I would like to purchase old collections .

@silkontheweb Жыл бұрын

What fun countries to collect! Thanks for sharing.

@yusifahmedalwazzan6459 Жыл бұрын

EXCELLENT

@CaldonianDude 3 ай бұрын

235,000 stamps!!!! How on earth would you catalog a collection of that size???!!!

@rogerturner1881 Жыл бұрын

i think you did very very well. 1 thing if you want to keep the album without the stamps you could buy mounts and redo the album instead of the hinges and repair the pages. or cut them out and put them in a A4 protected sheets and get a ringed folder to put them in. I have been collecting for 52[1971] years with Greece, New Zealand, Cyprus, Cook islands, England

@silkontheweb Жыл бұрын

Nice choices of countries to collect! Beautiful stamps...

@peterhugo2078 10 ай бұрын

I love collecting stamps and have done for 60 years. I find videos such as this very relaxing to watch and I really enjoyed this one so thank you. But the album was expensive for what it contained as the condition was terrible for virtually every stamp that was not so common with the better one’s already removed. EBay is Russian Roulette for buying stamps and especially collections. Good buys are possible but are surrounded by others which sell for more than their market value. I strongly recommend buying at stamp auction houses instead as you can travel and view the entire collection if not too far away but even if you can’t, they are usually fairly described and have online photos to gain an impression of what it is like. I would expect to pay between £25 and £50 for the album you showed here. An entire large box of perhaps 6 or 7 similar albums and stock books I could buy at my favourite Newcastle auction for between £100 and £200. But I now tend to pay more for better quality. A superb Foreign (no British Commonwealth countries) collection housed in 2 Stanley Gibbons New Ideal albums with spaces for every stamp up to 1936 has just been sold there where the pages have been removed and split up into single country lots or grouped together into a few similar countries. I bought collections of Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras as one lot and single country collections of Colombia, Cuba, France (superb) and Mexico for prices ranging between £78 and £240. Most of the spaces are filled and every stamp is in mint not used condition which makes them considerably rarer and more valuable than used stamps generally speaking. Condition is generally excellent throughout with hardly an imperfection in sight. Bidders were successful from countries as diverse as Ukraine to Thailand which shows the international appeal of stamps and how interesting the material being offered was. I have bid at their auctions for many years and now love the fact that you can take part in the auction from home in real time, with the entire auction being live streamed for free.

@grandcrowdadforde6127 8 ай бұрын

ya did good... i have// know just about all the stamps in that album; i'd say $$ 110 was a. bargain...ya done good!

@pbondin Жыл бұрын

Nice and relaxing video. You’ll probably find that Cyril is a man’s name. It’s a wonderful classic SG album of the 20’s (perhaps?) Nice glazed pages - impede foxing. Keep enjoying your retirement.

@silkontheweb Жыл бұрын

Thanks for letting me know!

@fenrik8178 Жыл бұрын

Huh, judging from only the first few pages you did pretty well. The album looks well preserved and like no one has gone through it yet to pick out the best stamps like sometimes will be the case with albums like this.

@fenrik8178 Жыл бұрын

Ah someone did go through it already, a shame, but still a lot of nice stamps left!

@silkontheweb Жыл бұрын

Agreed! And thanks for joining in the conversation... so disappointing to see a hinge remnant, but overall still pleased...

@jasonparr4275 Жыл бұрын

Love your videos mate!!! Cheers from Qld, Australia!!!

@danielste-marie779 Жыл бұрын

Nice album, although a shame it had been cherry-picked. I think you did ok. Love the penny reds. Look forward to more videos.

@silkontheweb Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the nice note! Means a lot to me.

@sylvaindore3190 Жыл бұрын

I don't know if you made a good deal or not but I love the album. I think it's going to be a good addition in your shelves. ENJOY THEM!

@silkontheweb Жыл бұрын

Will do! And thanks for joining the conversation

@frederickbowdler8169 9 ай бұрын

super 😊

@joannewolfe5688 2 ай бұрын

You did well on that album. Surprised the previous owner didn't cherrypick the US section. I love the documentary ships, and they looked to be in good shape. BTW, Cyril is a masculine name. What I really enjoyed about the album is that it showed all the watermarks! I've never seen an album that did that. I'm just getting into watermarks and it is amazing how the right one can raise the price of a stamp a LOT! As far as Austrian newspaper stamps, don't discount them; I just discovered one that's worth a massive amount of money in an old album. Massive. You can probably figure out which one. Needless to say I was shocked and thrilled.

@silkontheweb 2 ай бұрын

Nice find!

@tedlawrence4189 10 ай бұрын

Many years ago I purchased a worldwide collection in international albums for $25,000. Great collection.

@raularmandomartinez5662 Жыл бұрын

I think You did great, excellent buy, but like they say, first of all It's for the Love of Stamp Collecting, then if You find a very valuable stamp, well, sell it, what the heck.

@terrynak Жыл бұрын

Beautiful video! I started collecting stamps since I was about 8 yrs. old and stopped during my later college years - just got back into it about 5 yrs. ago. Also collected baseball cards (mainly wax boxes and sets) from '95 through '98 until I realized it was not a good way to spend my disposable income on boxes from mostly the junk wax era. But I totally get the collectible bug - I also collected vinyl LPs in the past, postcards (mostly stamped), among other things. Still have them all in my storage - need to find a way to unload them in my retirement years, which isn't far away.

@silkontheweb Жыл бұрын

Our journeys sound very similar... returning to stamps has been such a great choice for me... happy collecting!

@tedlawrence4189 10 ай бұрын

Nice beginners collection of old worldwide.

@user-gh4wm8md5d Жыл бұрын

Мои поздравления, отличное пополнение!!!

@grounded-b937 10 ай бұрын

15:15 entire pages cut from album !!

@grandcrowdadforde6127 Жыл бұрын

1 st comment re CYRIL......thats a guys name !

@ReviewsAndHowTos Жыл бұрын

You sounded so disgruntled when you said, "or just a bill." 😂 Like paying a bill is the worst possible thing to do with a stamp. As always, great content.

@kflowers Жыл бұрын

When I pick up a lot, I am happy if I paid about 10% catalog AND find a dozen or so stamps I needed

@silkontheweb Жыл бұрын

That's exactly my thinking too!

@jameslove1092 Жыл бұрын

Hi i have a strand likke that too.

@homerth1555 Жыл бұрын

Cyril is a man's name.

@kozzackkelt Жыл бұрын

Hi.... just found your channel via someone's post on a stamp collecting FB page..... one question - while its great to have and make use of your grandfathers pocket knife, why don't you use stamp tongs/tweezers to point out stamps ? Looking forward to watching more of your videos.

@silkontheweb Жыл бұрын

Hi! And thanks for commenting and the encouragement... just sentimentality, I use stamp tweezers mostly... (I'm also getting new ones, because my current ones aren't great...)

@adamsmith-wi3qg Жыл бұрын

Will you do a video on how to safely remove stamps from envelopes and postcards? I know there are a ton of videos on YT on how to do this but was curious what method you prefer

@silkontheweb Жыл бұрын

I did, felt like the obligatory video to do (there are a lot of videos out there...) My tweak on it is I use vinyl albums (LPs) during the drying process, because of the plastic wrap they have. I've tried drying books but honestly they're not my favorite, they're expensive and don't do all that better of a job imho.

@adamsmith-wi3qg Жыл бұрын

@@silkontheweb ok I must have missed that video, I'll look for it