My book about old postage stamps has arrived from Amazon and both me and my girlfriend have been through my Grandad’s old postage stamp collection and we have marked off each of his stamps.
This was a fun exercise because it gave me a chance to go through his collection stamp by stamp.
So the book that I have is the British Stamp Market Values 2009. The reason that I chose that one over the Stanley Gibbons book was because of the reviews on Amazon. The reviews tended to say that the British Stamp Market Values gave a more realistic Value Of Old Postage Stamps.
I’ve actually done a quick video about the book which I have posted on You Tube and hope to link it to this blog post (hope it worked. It took me and my girlfriend a few evening to complete the cataloguing. It was really interesting. Not all the stamps were in the book but most of them were.
A whole collection about kings and queens wasn’t in there. I think that it must have been a special edition. I will have to do some more investigating into those. The book that I bought was for British Old Postage Stamps so obviously his stamps from abroad were not in the book.
There were some really interesting Old Postage Stamps in the book and I will go into some of these in more detail in further posts.
I marked off each of the stamps in the book by circling them with my pen. This will become a record of where the old postage stamp collection was at the point that I inherited it (plus the others that I that I couldn’t find).
I also found 2 other books in the my Grandad’s collection. One similar to mine where he must’ve marked off his old postage stamps. This on was called ‘Collect British Stamps’ and it was published by Stanley Gibbons. It was from 1980, the year I was born.
The other book looks like a special book. It is the ‘price list of British Colonial Stamps and Foreign Sets’ from J.E. Lee. The book actually doesn’t look as old as the Stanley Gibbons one but when I looked at the ‘newest’ old postage stamps in there it was dated at 1948. This probably means that this book was around from approximately 1949. It is really good condition.
I have made further videos about these 2 books which I have posted on You Tube. I will do my best to link them to my old postage stamps blog so they so automatically but if not I will post the links here.
Please can you let me know if you would like me to post photos or videos of my Grandad’s old postage stamp collection on this site?