Stamps & getting them valued

kayleigh

I sell stamps on ebay.

Unless the stamps are very good condition or rare - they are not going to be worth a vast amount.

Even those whose value is say £200 in Gibbons - you will be lucky to get £10 on the open market. You generally can get 3-5% of gibbons value.

A lot of penny reds and penny blacks can be bought for pennies or a couple of pounds - so I would not get overly hopeful.

You could however have some rare stamps in your collection - if they are of good condition - you will get a lot more.

The actual value depends on what it is (if you don't know what your looking for - your going to need help - things like watermark, number of perforations, etc can mean the difference of £10 and £1000 - that is where experts clean up.

I bought a "collection" of 5 stamps off of ebay about a year ago - hoping maybe 1 of them was not what the person thought. I was wrong - it as described - but another had the incorrect watermark - I have recently sold this to a private dealer for 4k. I bought the 5 stamps for £1.99. I have also came across one that is so rare Gibbons don't even have a price for it. So you need to be 100% sure of what you have or you could lose out.

Feel free to look at my current sales (kayleigh_dog on ebay) to see if anything looks familiar to what you have - or send me a PM with your e-mail address and send me a quick scan of the items (if they are British) and I could probably tell you quite quickly if it worth getting them valued.

TokochickUK

my mil law has a huge stamp collection she used to do as a child, and her mother also used to collect and gave her all the collection. we are talking walk in cupboards full all in mint condition , loads of the royal family lol.. she has never had them valued but is thinking about it due to space...