This is one of those things I almost threw away, then thought about giving away, then decided I should try to sell it. I think there’s a shop in Indianapolis that might give me something for it. I hardly remember having these stamps and I don’t remember if this was an on-going collection or something I was gung-ho about for a few weeks before completely forgetting it (as my own kids do now with so many of their toys and hobbies). They aren’t organized in any way – in fact, they are just jumbled together in an old Estee Lauder box my Mom must have provided. What’s somewhat depressing to consider is this: at the time, the collection was pretty worthless because it was just a bunch of common stamps – only a few of them more than a few years old. And that’s why I was going to just toss them. But then I paused long enough to realize that now all these common stamps are 30 to 40 years old! They are antiques because I am now … OLD. So I decided to check them out on-line to see if any had value. What I found was that quite a few of them retained their original face value … sometimes a few cents more. And I’ve got hundreds of them. Of course, it was 30 years ago, so the face value of most is between 5 and 8 cents!
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