World Stamps Collection

Do you have them identified? Do you know what countries they are from and when they were issued? Are they mint or used? If so, you can check catalog values in the Scott catalogs. If you post pictures I may be able to help.

I can identify the country of these stamps, but I dont know if there is any valuable one that I should keep.

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THANKS

I'm only going by memory here, I don't have a catalog at the moment, but I don't see anything of value. Your Indian picture is too small to identify any stamps.

Steve

I agree with triggersmob. Nothing looks particuarly valuable, but some of them are still interesting.

The Umm-al-Qiwaim sheets are known as CTOs or cancelled to order, which means they were printed and immediately cancelled for sale to the collecting public. When I was a kid, these stamps would go directly into packets for sale on approval through the mail to collectors, for example from H.E. Harris and Company in Boston. Purists don't like them, because they are neither mint nor postally used, but less stuffy topical collectors think they are neat. Hey, you have clown loaches on one of the tropical fish stamps, who doesn't like clown loaches? The Kings and Queens of England sheet is interesting and well executed, even though some of the portraits are a bit fanciful. This one could be framed for an interesting display of British history.

The Monaco airplane set, if mint with undisturbed full gum, might be worth a dollar or two. The Hungarian stamps are common cold-war era stamps. The Cambodian reptile stamps look like more CTOs which may interest a collector of reptiles on stamps, but not valuable. The Italian stamps are postally used very common definitives. The picture of the Indian stamps is too tiny. The French stamps are postally used very common definitives, with one heavily cancelled commemorative. The British stamps are also postally used common definitives, called Machin heads, and the higher denominations are a bit crumpled. The "collection" has used stamps from Taiwan, South Korea, Austria, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden, though none valuable. The Czechoslovakian stamps look mostly postally used and maybe some CTOs, all common cold war era stamps. The Soviet Union stamps look postally used, but not valuable. The Yemeni horse stamp looks like a CTO, and Saudi Arabian stamps are common definitives.