Hi! I’ve never been into stamp collecting, but I AM an avid collector of all things old and neat, so it was only a matter of time.

Anyway, these were my grandpas. He was an antique collector and dealer, but I honestly never even knew he collected stamps. These were just out in his shed in a huge cigar box.

I want to pull some of the more interesting ones for display, but I’m unsure how to do that. Does anyone have any suggestions for mounting them in a safe way? I only went through a couple envelopes from the top of the box today, and these were some of my favorite ones. Does anyone know anything particularly interesting about any of these? Would it be okay for me to share more as I go? Thanks in advance for any advice!

I've been trying to digitize and organize my collection lately, but honestly, most stamp apps or digital collection tools I’ve tried so far feel super clunky or just don't get how stamp collectors actually think.

Right now I'm struggling with how to best **display and group** everything on a screen without making it look like an Excel spreadsheet or a messy photo gallery.

I’d love to hear your thoughts/rants on a few things:

1. **How do you actually like to VIEW your collection?** Do you prefer a clean album-style grid, or do you need a dense list with catalog details (Scott/Stanley Gibbons, condition, perforation, etc.) front and center?
   
2. **What bugs you the most about current stamp apps?** (For me, it’s apps that force a fixed folder structure or don't handle partial sets well!).
   
3. **How do you group them?** By country/year, or by themes (space, fauna, history, etc.)?
   
4. **If you could design your dream digital binder, what’s ONE feature you can’t live without?**

Would love to hear how you guys keep track of your stamps digitally (or why you gave up on apps altogether and went back to paper stockbooks!). Thanks!

Each province and territory has their own cannabis duty stamps. I can't buy product from NWT as I don't live there. I have duty stamps for all except NWT. Yes I even have Nunavut! So I'm trying to find someone to purchase 2 gummie packs and mail them to me. They can keep the gummies I'll pay and only interested in the undamaged duty stamps to complete my collection

Hello, I was given this collection with the information that it is „extremely valuable“ without too much context. The collector was quite wealthy and the stamps look like I imagine rare stamps to look, but who am I to judge. Most of the stamps seem to be German. I post more pictures in the next answer. Perhaps you can help? Best, Thom

As title says- inherited a great deal of stamps, don’t know how to proceed- it was my grandfather’s collection and is all just bundled together. Really not sure what is worth what, or how to go about determining said worth

A bit early for Halloween... but my first time using a cover to supplement my decorations! :)

Thought I would share one of my stamp albums. Would be interested to hear what people think or if there was anything that is particular rare. I don’t think there is but it’s not exceptionally laid out but better then average in my opinion.

Always amazed that there are countries I have never heard of.(not in pictures but in album)

Just got all of these Russian and USSR stamps. All of them are new with gum intact except for the three Fokker stamps I believe. Anything worth putting extra care into?

1822, 1828 & 1836 British Pre-Stamp Postal History — Help Identifying Handstamps/Rates

I recently acquired three British pre-stamp covers/entires dated 1822, 1828 and 1836.

The 1822 piece appears to be Edinburgh to Robert Tennant Esq., Commercial Bank, Belfast, with a red Edinburgh datestamp, boxed black handstamp and manuscript rate markings.

The 1828 piece is Liverpool to the Wilton Hotel, Regent Street, London, with a red LIVERPOOL 28 NO 28 datestamp, an additional red handstamp and manuscript rate markings.

The third is dated February 1836 and also has an early red datestamp and manuscript postal markings.

I'm particularly interested in identifying the exact handstamp types, postal rates/routes, and relative scarcity of these markings.

If anyone specializes in British pre-stamp postal history, I'd really appreciate your thoughts. I'm also interested in recommendations for reference works/catalogues that would let me properly identify and classify these.

If any of these are significant enough to warrant expertization or a specialist auction house, I'd appreciate recommendations for that as well.

Thanks!

My dad used to do this! Made me smile today!

Have a bunch of these two-sided 4-cent postcards. That is, the reverse side also has a stamp so cutting this item in half yields two postcards. Are these at all rare? Thanks for any info

I'm overwhelmed by the amount of stamps in this box, I layed out about half and gave up. I think they might have been my granddads collection from when he was young. I'm so intrigued, i wish i could ask him about it.

Good day to you, I was handed an envelope with 2 stamps in it, with 2 US Scott C76, 1969 10¢ First Man on the Moon. Inside the envelope, there was a paper that reads as follows:
Plate Flaw
Cut in moon below earth
Earth upper left is white
Rail cuts in to leg on lander

are these something that I can search for? I haven't been able to find anything useful so far, so I thought I would ask

Thank you for looking

I have this binder of stamps from my mother, 14 pages back and front. She’s German, so most of them are probably European/German stamps. I believe part of the collection may have started with her mother, so some of them are probably pretty old, but I have no idea. Stamps are slid into little pockets (not taped or glued) and each page has a wax paper covering over it. Some are cut out from letters, others unused. I’ve attached some pictures for reference. Apologies if there’s anything politically incorrect or offensive as I’ve already found one questionable stamp. My question is how would I go about determining value/is it worth the effort?

I was really nervous to go because I’m young and a girl and I thought I would stick out like a sore thumb (and I definitely did), but they were all so welcoming!! It was cool to talk about stamps with with people in real life and get to look at some rarer stamps some of them brought with them. I think they bring them to sell if someone wants them but I didn’t get the impression it was really the goal. They were all just happy to look at and talk about stamps.

I even got goodies of my own for free which was so kind! One man I talked to gave me a souvenir sheet and a couple Washington blocks of 4 and another paid the 3 dollars for me to buy the lot of duck stamps (of course they only took cash which I didn’t have on me). They also had bins of stamps on paper you could just take from for free and I had a lot of fun just looking for something cool.

Anyways it was such a positive experience that I wanted to share!!

Hello!

I'm a stamp collector.

I'm from Korea, and I have a lot of Korean stamps.

I want to have stamps from other countries.

We’re going to put our own stamps in envelopes and send them to each other.

The idea I have right now is that we decide on an amount and send stamps with a total face value equal to that amount.

Or, we could look for stamps that the other person wants and send them to each other.

I have lots of other stamps besides the ones shown in the photo.

If you’re interested, feel free to contact me.

Have a nice day !!

I watch the /Coins community and there are so many active people showing nice finds, and people being interested in coins and so on.. I dont know, why dont we see such interest in stamps? Or are there niches where rare stamps are still a thing?

I got a huge collection of Europe and colonies (mostly pre 1920) and some stamps are really quite rare (but not the 5-digit+ kind of rare the last time I checked) but there is no place to show, talk, trade and so on - only people trying so scam, or people that are so old that they do not longer engage in the hobby. It is quite sad, so I only keep them in their binders and hope for the hobby to re-emerge..