Ep. 32 - Unboxing #6 (Pt. 1): Reviewing an Ethiopia Mixture -- Plus, More Stampy YT Channels
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- I was very pleased with the Germany and Norway postage stamp mixtures I received from The Stamp Farm (see ep. 19 & 20), and ordered a few more small mixtures. In this video, I examine the Ethiopia mixture I received and see what I can add to my stamp collection.
Plus, I have a few more stampy RUclips channels to let you know about.
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I neglected to mention that the 2000 Bushbuck set that was listed for $40 Used, in the 2012 catalogue, dropped to just $12.90 in the 2017 catalogue.
Very interesting to see your process for going through a mixture packet.
Great video, and thanks for all of the youtube channel recommendations
Thank you, and you’re welcome. 😀
Ethiopia does appear to be a challenging country to collect.
Yes. I'm going to enjoy it.
Oh so many stamp channels I know not about. Thanks mate.
You’re welcome.
Thanks for the work to comparison the value of the ethiopian stamps for us
My pleasure, NO.
Like you are doing with Ethiopia, I am doing with Nigeria. Finding postally used modern comemmoratives from Nigeria is a real challenge. Good stuff as usual! Love to watch these Ted!
Thanks, Darrin. Good to hear from you.
I really enjoy your channel, Ethiopia stamps. Have you ever thought of using EZStamps software to identify stamps & using to inventory your collection? I am using it to inventory my 21 volume Minkus Surpreme Albums, so far in volume 5 at over 26,000 stamps! Does anyone talk about the real value of stamps? % of Scott’s value or other prices, I know the cost is more than one can sell them for, value is in the eye of the collector.
@@zaro6348 Right now I am using the World Stamp Collector database, which is a very versatile free program, which will also create album pages and export album txt files for use in the AlbumEasy program.
@@zaro6348 OMG! I have 9 volumes Minkus Global Supreme and I thought that was a lot. I cannot imagine 21 volumes. Wow!
Hi Ted, I have sent you a letter this afternoon. Except Beethoven stamp and FDC, I enclosed a few more Serbian unused stamps. Best regards, Zvezdan, from Serbia
Thank you Zvezdan. I look forward to seeing them.
Love to watch your presentations. Please make a video about stamp catalogs. What factors, indexes (indices) will play when they price a stamp. It's not an easy task to put values to stamps all over the world from early days to present. Scott, Stanly Gibbons...are their numbers reasonably close or different. Thanks!
Yes, I have an episode on catalogues planned. Thanks for watching, Jagath.
Thanks Ted! I always enjoy your videos!
Thank you, Amy. I’m glad you like them.
SUPER!
Thank you, Ashwini.
May I suggest a topic for an upcoming video? Perhaps you could do a video for us on "the big National Stamp shows". (And yes I do realize Covid has impacted this on the short term... but we dan DREAM)
That’s a great idea. I’m hoping to be able to travel to one or two big ones next year, from which I will gather a lot of video.
Awesome :-)
Thank you, Nisarg.
Would you do ,or can mention mail order stamp companies ,that send out stamps to the public for a fee.,besides, mystic cause their prices are so inflated!
Yes, I can talk about them. Thanks, Alice.
Enjoying the vids ,
Do they have the print run numbers in the Scott Catalgues?
Thank you. Scott does not give printing numbers. Stampworld does on many issues. Click on the blue "i" icon to see that information.
So minimum catalogue value in Scott catalogue means 25 cents? Did you throw away the 5 creased, stained or corners cut off stamps?
Right. The minimum catalogue value in Scott is 25c.
I am collecting all my damaged stamps in a separate envelope.
Thanks for sharing and good that you are still keeping those stamps.
@@joyseng You’re welcome.
I want praice book
There is an online catalogue at www.stampworld.com
I'm looking for some guidance. I recently started collecting French Polynesia stamps and bought a small collection that contains about 1/3rd of them. Do you recommend using a stamps on approval company for the rest or try buying them from ebay or HipStamp? I'm retired so my budget is not huge. Any and all opinions appreciated. Thanks!
I’m not sure if approvals are the way to go, unless you find a dealer who will send approvals based on your want list. If you are on a budget, approvals are also much more expensive than most online dealers, where competition on sites such as HipStamp tends to bring down prices.
If you go to HipStamp and do a search for French Polynesia with All Categories selected, you can then scroll down, and on the left side under Show Only, select One Match per Seller. Then each of the listings on the page represents one dealer, and there is a line above each one saying ### more from this seller. That way you see which dealers have the largest stock of FP. Good luck in your quest.
@@tedtalksstamps Thanks Ted. I guess I was under the assumption that the big stamp outfits like Mystic and so on would lower their prices in accordance with the popularity of the hobby. Wishful thinking.
@@Creek54 In the case of Mystic, it is an emphatic, “No.” Mystic is well known among collectors for providing below-average-quality stamps for well-above-average prices.
When this pandemic is over and everything opens back up (hopefully soon) look for a stamp show in your local area. That way you can shop around from several dealers.
@@Robertbrown08049 I can’t wait. Now that I am retired, I will also be able to attend the big national shows.
Overall would you say purchasing mixed stamps are worth it?
Yes, but it all depends on where you are at in your collection and what you are looking for. With the Ethiopia mixture, I was starting with very few in my collection, and no recent stamps, as promised in the ad. So I was able to use all the stamps for my collection. I don’t find large mixtures of off-paper worthwhile. There is usually too much duplication, and you can end up with 10 or 20 copies of a lot of the most common minimal value stamps. Off-paper mixtures, almost by definition, consist of the leftovers of collections that have already had the good stuff removed, and junk that dealers cannot sell. On-paper mixtures are more likely to contain better stamps because they have not been in a collection or a dealer’s inventory. A lot of on-paper mixtures consist of envelope cuttings from missions and charities that don’t know or care about what valuable stamps might be on them.
@@tedtalksstamps thank you. I don't collect alot of foreign stamps. I have been collecting for about 3 years, many U S . I just started collecting U N stamps.