What stamps I do not buy ?
1982 Mickey Mouse and Pluto 6 Rupees souvenir sheet
Many collections are amateur collections, which were very often built in the years of early childhood as a game with the stamps. Such colections can have big cognitive and sentimental value. Unfortunatelly besides few exceptions their financial value is low. Only exceptions of amateur collections are these who contains complete stamp sets of China for wchich I pay very high prices. For every mint complete set of China in very fine condition from 60’s years I pay from a few hundreds to a few thousands PLN. If you found China stamps in the albums of your childhood you are welcome to read part „CHINA”.
Amateur collection is quite easy to distinguish from professional collection due to way of putting stamps in the stockbooks:
- Stamps of proffesional collections are put in the order of dates of issue i.e. one album contains stamps from the same country put year by year,
- Stamps of amateur collections are put in chaotic way, stamps of one country are neighbours of stamps from another one i.e. they are two sets of Poland, then one set of Czechoslovakia, two stamps of Germany and block from Hungary. The stamps in amateur collection even if come from one country are also put in chaotic way i.e. they are sets from 60’s and 80’s years on one page,
- Condition of collection: professional collections are very well taken care, stamps are put in regular way and better positions are protected by special materials „hawids”. Amateur collections are very often neglected, stamps are put in irregular way, they are stickers with heroes of childhood on the covers of stockbooks.
To save Your and my time if you are owner of amateur collection please keep it for you as souvenir of the childhood. But you should always check the collection if it contains China stamps for which you get serious money from me.
I am neither interested in stamp collections of Poland and foreign countries from period 1960 – 1990 contains stamps per one. These stamps were issued in very huge amounts, most of collectors have them from a long time ago . Such collections are very hard to sell and their prices are very low.