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Is this worth more than a few bucks? US stamp book
Azurescens
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Azurescens
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Most appear to be very common 3 cent or 2 cent stamps which can still be used for postage. The problem is that is will take 22 of the 3 cent stamps to make the current first class letter rate. The stock book itself may actually be worth more than the stamps as it seems to be in good condition and remains very usable.
Will the PO allow you to exchange 32 3 cent stamps for a .66 cent one?
No.
Lick and stick, then mail.
No.
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Erba - coolstanley-dallasactuary-SDsportsfan
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Seems awfully wasteful though to actually lick/stick/ruin these mint (well the ones that are mint) historical stamps though...
Dimes: 54S, 53P, 50P, 49S, 45D+S, 44S, 43D, 41S, 40D+S, 39D+S, 38D+S, 37D+S, 36S, 35D+S, all 16-34's
Quarters: 52S, 47S, 46S, 40S, 39S, 38S, 37D+S, 36D+S, 35D, 34D, 32D+S
74 Topps: 37,38,46,47,48,138,151,193,210,214,223,241,256,264,268,277,289,316,435,552,570,577,592,602,610,654,655
1997 Finest silver: 115, 135, 139, 145, 310
1995 Ultra Gold Medallion Sets: Golden Prospects, HR Kings, On-Base Leaders, Power Plus, RBI Kings, Rising Stars
Feel free to offer over face value for them. You will get offers for millions of them.
It is a sad reality that stamp collecting has declined substantially to the point where there are far, far more examples of common stamps than there are collectors.
Hey I became a new collector several months ago when I found out (purely by accident) that you can in fact collect as many years/sequence as you can (as each US stamp has its own Scott number) and that there are albums you can put the stamps in similar to putting cards in a plastic page/pockets. I'm really happy so far to have all the 70s/80s stamps and all the early 90s commemoratives and how surprisingly affordable the 60s/50s/40s sets are (I hope to get those fairly soon though I'm gonna be tapped out for quite awhile sadly)! True the hingeless albums are rather expensive but they are worth it considering how you also get descriptions of each of the stamps on the left page.
Dimes: 54S, 53P, 50P, 49S, 45D+S, 44S, 43D, 41S, 40D+S, 39D+S, 38D+S, 37D+S, 36S, 35D+S, all 16-34's
Quarters: 52S, 47S, 46S, 40S, 39S, 38S, 37D+S, 36D+S, 35D, 34D, 32D+S
74 Topps: 37,38,46,47,48,138,151,193,210,214,223,241,256,264,268,277,289,316,435,552,570,577,592,602,610,654,655
1997 Finest silver: 115, 135, 139, 145, 310
1995 Ultra Gold Medallion Sets: Golden Prospects, HR Kings, On-Base Leaders, Power Plus, RBI Kings, Rising Stars
Stamps can definitely be very attractive (not to mention historical). To me, some are legitimate works of art in their own right.
It's tragic that most stamps from the past several decades are only valued as postage.
Postage stamps became a huge deal for collectors back in the 1930s and 1940s, as President Franklin Roosevelt was a collector, and he took an active role in the designing and issuing of the stamps. Due to this, millions upon millions of stamps were issued. Even through the 1980s and into the 1990s, the USPS was issuing an ever-increasing amount of stamps (just like the explosion in baseball card production at the same time). Many collectors, my dad included, simply quit collecting, as he/they could not keep up with all the stamps being issued. Unlike baseball cards, though, there was no corresponding activity, like major league baseball, that drove their production and collectibility. Many people might be interested in a Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, John Wayne, Babe Ruth or Jackie Robinson stamp, but who was really interested in collecting the multiples of different U.S. Flag stamps or others depicting varieties of flowers.
Sadly, as this generation of collectors has died off, the number of collectors has dwindled. Add to this, the decreased use of the postal service due to the internet (people no longer have to mail-in their credit card/electric/utility/etc bills; and we no longer write letters to our loved ones, we communicate via email), people aren't being exposed to postage stamps on a daily basis any more.
Steve