My good friend had an extensive stamp collection. It was sold by the weight. And not much
He ruefully said, I should have collected coins.
THANK YOU!!! FOR validating my post about stamps NOT being the pot at the end of a rainbow..
“My good friend had an extensive stamp collection. It was sold by the weight. And not much”
Unfortunately both stamps and coins sank to such lows after the 1970/80s; they experienced a brief heyday when other investments weren’t performing, and never recovered from that. Our local coin/stamp shop branched off into baseball cards, “pogs”, just about anything that would be considered collectible. Before the owner died, he was reduced to having kids come in to play some kind of card game (like “Magic the Gathering” but more recent). I watched someone come in with a large box of baseball cards, and the owner offered him $10; when the prospective seller protested, the owner pointed to similar boxes around the perimeter and said nobody was interested in buying them.
At this point it is best to deal with collectors online (in blogs/forums); I can’t think of a better way to connect a seller with the ideal buyer.