Selling Stamps

Loubell83

Hi all,

My partner has a box full of loads of stamps he collected when he was a teenager, and I was just wondering does anybody know of the best way to get these valued/sold?

We have looked into it before and not really got anywhere, does anyone have experience of doing this?

Thanks

lincroft1710

Is it a collection of specific themes or countries, or like the collection I once had, anything and everything.

Loubell83

It is really anything and everything, I think he has one album that is countries but everything else is a mixture

lincroft1710

Other than going through the collection and looking each stamp up in Stanley Gibbons catalogues (and they're expensive these days), I don't know what to suggest. There are magazines on stamp collecting, so it might be worth just browsing through them in W H Smith to see if they have any info.

About 20 years ago I took my collection (ancient album plus several boxes full of stamp) to a dealer and was offered £10 for the lot. Sold them via free ad in local paper for £25.