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General Philatelic/Gen. Discussion : "The Hoard" - The Pre-Game Show READ THIS BEFORE GOING ON TO STAGE 1 FOR THE PICTURES

 

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25 Mar 2016
10:51:44pm
To avoid having one thread get too convoluted I will separate them by stages. (I bet some of you thought I was going to say I was banning ikey Pikey, admit it). Laughing But no, he's "my boy" now and I want to see his Babylonian-Klingon comments on this hot mess.

Before the pictures some background.

.. Collected stamps since I was a kid, got my dad's collection after University, had a decent collection going, then it was stolen in my early 20s.
.. Decided a few times to get back into it, but the buying process was more than painful. You know the story: someone inherits a couple boxes and albums from their uncle, a "serious" collector (i.e. spent all night in the basement so he could avoid his wife and kids and get hammered); they get a catalog from the library, troll on-line at eBay - and prey on the kindly folks at StampoRama for free info with no quid-pro-quo, and convince themselves that they have a valuable goldmine (20,000 stamps on paper and glued to album pages @ 25c CV each = $5,000 plus that rare stamp dad said he had that I just haven't found yet = $6,000 but I'll take $4,500 cash...) Nerd
.. Severed a long friendship with my old buddies Jack Daniels and Johnny Walker and decided that I need to use my surprising amount of additional cashflow for something before my wife and two teenage daughters realized they could now buy more shoes.
.. Put an advert in Kijiji, and after a few more horrible experiences a guy showed up looking for an urgent infusion of exactly $400 cash for what I suspect was a weekend away with my aforementioned estranged pals. He said his wife had started exchanging stamps with pen pals when she was a wee lass back in the early 1930s. At the peak she had over 200 partners from every imaginable country. She had just died suddenly and his basement got flooded a week later so he wanted "all that S*&%^(T out of my house right away". His car trunk was loaded with boxes, shopping bags, and a suitcase - all filled with loose stamps, envelopes/glassines, and albums. It was about half of what she had he claimed - the rest was so totally water-logged that he just tossed it. Please try not to cry. Sad

So, I have been trying to make some sense of my new-found luck (curse?) and started to sort, reorganize, and start again (at least 6 times). I've seen so-called "hoards" on eBay ranging from a banker's box of glassines to a tall bookcase with 30 albums (perhaps 3 pages each? who knows?) so I don't know how you'd rate this, but I'll be interested in feedback.

Let the fun begin... Party

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lemaven

25 Mar 2016
10:51:44pm

To avoid having one thread get too convoluted I will separate them by stages. (I bet some of you thought I was going to say I was banning ikey Pikey, admit it). Laughing But no, he's "my boy" now and I want to see his Babylonian-Klingon comments on this hot mess.

Before the pictures some background.

.. Collected stamps since I was a kid, got my dad's collection after University, had a decent collection going, then it was stolen in my early 20s.
.. Decided a few times to get back into it, but the buying process was more than painful. You know the story: someone inherits a couple boxes and albums from their uncle, a "serious" collector (i.e. spent all night in the basement so he could avoid his wife and kids and get hammered); they get a catalog from the library, troll on-line at eBay - and prey on the kindly folks at StampoRama for free info with no quid-pro-quo, and convince themselves that they have a valuable goldmine (20,000 stamps on paper and glued to album pages @ 25c CV each = $5,000 plus that rare stamp dad said he had that I just haven't found yet = $6,000 but I'll take $4,500 cash...) Nerd
.. Severed a long friendship with my old buddies Jack Daniels and Johnny Walker and decided that I need to use my surprising amount of additional cashflow for something before my wife and two teenage daughters realized they could now buy more shoes.
.. Put an advert in Kijiji, and after a few more horrible experiences a guy showed up looking for an urgent infusion of exactly $400 cash for what I suspect was a weekend away with my aforementioned estranged pals. He said his wife had started exchanging stamps with pen pals when she was a wee lass back in the early 1930s. At the peak she had over 200 partners from every imaginable country. She had just died suddenly and his basement got flooded a week later so he wanted "all that S*&%^(T out of my house right away". His car trunk was loaded with boxes, shopping bags, and a suitcase - all filled with loose stamps, envelopes/glassines, and albums. It was about half of what she had he claimed - the rest was so totally water-logged that he just tossed it. Please try not to cry. Sad

So, I have been trying to make some sense of my new-found luck (curse?) and started to sort, reorganize, and start again (at least 6 times). I've seen so-called "hoards" on eBay ranging from a banker's box of glassines to a tall bookcase with 30 albums (perhaps 3 pages each? who knows?) so I don't know how you'd rate this, but I'll be interested in feedback.

Let the fun begin... Party

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