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A God-send for stamp amateurs
If you know nothing about stamps or the collecting of them, but find yourself the owner of a stamp collection nevertheless, this book is for you. My husband and I found ourselves the "inheritors" of a stamp collection with no idea of it's worth, how to describe it to anyone or even WHO to describe it to. This book is simply wonderful for explaining how to approach a stamp dealer to sell your collection. It's a slim volume, easy reading and the anecdotes are very educational. My husband and I discovered we fell into most of the pitfalls described in this book. If you have a stamp collection you wish to liquidate, don't do a thing until you've read this book!!
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May 25, 1999
(USA) | Helpful Votes: 130 | Rating: 5
Product Description
Wondering how to get the highest price for your stamp collection? Best selling Top Dollar Paid! - The Complete Guide to Selling Your Stamps takes the mystery out of it and helps ensure maximum profit. It's a concise factual guide and an entertaining, revealing, behind-the-scenes narrative about the real-life world of stamp dealing written by veteran dealer, Stephen R. Datz, whose decades of experience include arranging for the sale of President Gerald R. Ford's collection-and making sure he got top dollar for it. Critically acclaimed, Top Dollar Paid! is an absolute must for anyone who buys, collects, invests, or is in the market to sell. Newly revised and updated. Top to learn more
Now for the bad news
I recently inherited my father in law's stamp collection. My wife wants to sell it, to raise some much-needed money. I bought a current Scott catalogue and determined that one of the U.S. plate block albums is "worth" $350. My wife was told by a stamp dealer that he will only pay about 10% of catalogue value. That would make the album worth $35.I read Top Dollar Paid. It says that only certain stamps are good investments. Those are the stamps that were already rare and highly priced collectibles when they were first purchased.In other words, if you go into a stamp dealer and buy a 3 cent stamp for $500 because it is rare, that is exactly the kind of stamp that is a great investment. It is the type of stamp you can leave to your children or grandchildren, and its value will rise as the years and decades go by.But if, when your father or grandfather was a child in the 1930s or 1940s, or (God forbid) in the 1950s or 60s, he went into the post...
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December 19, 2005
| Helpful Votes: 45 | Rating: 4
This book can save you money
I'm not planning to sell my stamps - but this book has saved me money by giving me some insight into what kind of stamps will never be worth the time or money spent on them! I also love Datz's vignettes of life in the stamp trade!
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May 31, 2001
| Helpful Votes: 21 | Rating: 4