Reply to: Is there any philatelist's on the forum?

[socialworker]

Pointless hobby. As my Dad used to say, Philately will get you nowhere...

IGMC

Doh , beat me to it.

[mudskipper]

I found a bunch recently. They weren't even printed properly, the plane was upside down.

They made a good BBQ starter though

I found a load of old stamps but the aeroplane was upside down so I threw them away

KUATB...

[Paddy]

I found a load of old stamps but the aeroplane was upside down so I threw them away

[Netraider]

Clearing the loft and found a shed load of stamps and first day covers, no inclination to go through them and couldn't even tell the good from the ordinary, what's the best to do with them? Would a collector make a job lot offer?

I could take a look for you. Its been a few years but I still have my albums...

[Uncle Albert]

A chap my Dad knows is a serious stamp collector. I was talking to him about a year back and his opinion is that it's a dieing market. Collectables are only worth something if there are people who want to collect them and nobody under the age of 70 wants to collect stamps.

[Doggy Styles]

If you're scanning old photos, for flip's sake take a master copy at 1200 dpi, even though the files seem ridiculously large. Disk space is dirt cheap these days.

So many people scan photos at some pathetic resolution like 50 dpi, even detailed images like school photos, and practically all the information is lost. When you zoom in to see the face of an old school friend or teacher, all you get is a single square

My best friend in the first year of secondary school actually looked a lot like that.

[OwlHoot]

If you're scanning old photos, for flip's sake take a master copy at 1200 dpi, even though the files seem ridiculously large. Disk space is dirt cheap these days.

So many people scan photos at some pathetic resolution like 50 dpi, even detailed images like school photos, and practically all the information is lost. When you zoom in to see the face of an old school friend or teacher, all you get is a single square

[mudskipper]

I too have albums of stamps - many were my dad's. No idea what to do with them.

Perhaps do as he did - encourage your kids to get into stamp collecting, then dump them on them!

[suityou01]

I went through the missus junk.

I love doing this. And so does my missus.

[xoggoth]

I know the feeling. Got two full stamp albums of stamps the kids collected when little. Are they worth anything? No idea, but hate to chuck em , not as though they occupy much space. Let them decide when I snuff it in 20 years.

Or tomorrow, if I keep drinking so much.

gnoshing off strangers in the men's toilets at Waterloo

I thought he sounded familiar.

[Doggy Styles]

Clearing the loft and found a shed load of stamps and first day covers, no inclination to go through them and couldn't even tell the good from the ordinary, what's the best to do with them? Would a collector make a job lot offer?

Whose are they and how long have they been there?

The other thing is, you might want someone you can trust who knows a good stamp to go through them first.

[SimonMac]

I went through the missus junk.
There was a suitcase full of her dads 1920 photography kit, with bazillions of photos on little glass plates, all annotated in excellent italic script
a treasure trove

were the photography dept of salford uni interested ?
were they fck

Funny you say that there is a few thousand camera slides but my dad is taking them over to Spain to spend his retirement going through!

[Spacecadet]

I found a bunch recently. They weren't even printed properly, the plane was upside down.

They made a good BBQ starter though

[EternalOptimist]

Clearing the loft and found a shed load of stamps and first day covers, no inclination to go through them and couldn't even tell the good from the ordinary, what's the best to do with them? Would a collector make a job lot offer?

I went through the missus junk.
There was a suitcase full of her dads 1920 photography kit, with bazillions of photos on little glass plates, all annotated in excellent italic script
a treasure trove

were the photography dept of salford uni interested ?
were they fck

[MarillionFan]

Clearing the loft and found a shed load of stamps and first day covers, no inclination to go through them and couldn't even tell the good from the ordinary, what's the best to do with them? Would a collector make a job lot offer?

I thought that dressing up in pink Lycra, bring a fan of Downton Abbey and gnoshing off strangers in the men's toilets at Waterloo indicated you as a total raving packer of candy made from sugar, butter and cream but now you admit to stamp collecting as well!!!