Comments on: Setting a value for worldwide stamp collection

By: Alyn

Alyn — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:17:51 +0000

@Keijo – I was wondering why they were included as well, I think it must be for consideration as space fillers only.

By: Keijo

Keijo — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:55:14 +0000

@Alyn… Interesting as in (Northern) Europe damaged stamps are rarely counted / included unless they have a significant (>100€) catalog value . I guess this is just another difference in how different the European markets and quality expectations are compared to US.

By: Alyn

Alyn — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:14:01 +0000

The February 2012 issue of the American Philatelist touches on this in “Philatelic Estate Disposition for the Novice”. They also used the $10.00 threshold described by Allan Singer above, stamps damaged hd the value reduced by 90%, undamaged were valued at a 80% reduction from the catalogue value.

By: Carol Ligda-Wong

Carol Ligda-Wong — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:49:45 +0000

Allan Singer… Would you offer less if the seller brought in only their stamps with cv’s of $10 or more? How do you value the “chaff”?

By: Allan Singer

Allan Singer — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:00:36 +0000

I’m over 50 years in the hobby, and experience tells me that each dealer works out his own way of valuating collections that are offered to him/her for sale. As for myself, I go through a collection, page by page, and count the number of stamps with cv’s of $10 or more. If I count 100 stamps, that’s $1,000 cv, and I offer 25% or $250.00.
If the collection is mounted using mounts instead of hinges I tack on an additional 10%. If I find very high values,
example a Canada $4. Jubilee, I will count it as 15 stamps of $10.
A lot of the collections I am offered are made up of 1940-1960 material from East Bloc countries. To me these are all “junk” and no offer is made.