High Value 1847-1934 US Stamp Album 

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One of the best hobbies you can ever have. If you understand the stamps, it’s something unexplainable you have to fill the stamps in your heart start collecting

Beautiful collection! Truly a labor of love. Thank you for all the effort and time you put into your videos.

That is a fantastic collection you are putting together, congrats! I love how you are building upon the mystic pages by adding your duplicates, cancels, etc. Way to go thinking out of the box.

I genuinely enjoy watching your videos and appreciate your passion for the hobby, it's nice to see someone of your age with a passion for philately. That said, please use extreme caution when buying stamps from Apfelbaum. While Earl was a great member of the philatelic community up until his tragic death in the Lockerbie bombing, both John and Kenneth have been expelled from the APS, with John being a convicted felon, thus the reason the company is neither a member of the APS nor ASDA. They have a rather long history of selling faulty material as sound, and Missy then blocking buyers who avail themselves of the liberal return policy. While it can be a good source of quality albums such as Scott Platinum for bargain prices, their bulk lots are notorious for being mostly "fluff" and short on substance. Higher value stamps should NEVER be purchased from them without modern certs from APS or the PF. Also always remember that no matter what "catalogue value" they quote, they (like Mystic and other dealers) will typically only pay around 3% of SCV when purchasing, even if it's material previously bought from them. I say none of this to discourage you, if you're a member of the Stamp Community forum you likely know much of it to begin with. Just use caution; an otherwise beautiful collection consisting largely of faulty/regummed/reperfed/thinned/poorly centered/trimmed margin stamps is sadly worth very, very little in today's modern market. Try not to get too caught up with Scott Catalogue Values, as - outside of exceptional copies - many stamps are quite literally not worth 10% of those stated amounts at auction. They've unfortunately not updated their valuing on many stamps in DECADES, so that should give you some idea of the realistic accuracy. The Alan Miller certs are neat (and he's an experienced philatelist and long-time APS member) but hold no additional value, as you'll need a PF or PSE cert (possibly APS) to sell as certified with any major auction house AND he offers no guarantees on his authentications, as stated on the certificate. Buying stamps is a minefield that gets more and more tricky as the value goes up. Be careful.

Wow! An amazing video of a high quality collection. A real pleasure to view. This could be my favorite movie.

Awesome discription of your collection, I love it. Man you got some awesome stamps and a very nice display of them in your book. Butch.

Absolutely beautiful collection. This video is long, but will be fun to watch in bits and pieces. Awesome work.

The collection of US stamps that you have is beautiful. The early stamps that you have are the ones that will appreciate in value, not to mention the history that they represent. Just a word to mention, the cover at 37.20 with the black border was a mourning cover that was used to announce someone’s death. Also something that is very interesting to note, according to an article in the May 2002 issue of the American Philatelist, there was a secret language in the way that stamps were placed on an envelope in the 19th Century. For example, a stamp placed sideways on the upper right of an envelope might mean “Do you love me “? A stamp in the upper left corner might mean “Good-bye sweetheart. An upright stamp in the top middle of an envelope can mean “Yes”. An upright stamp in the middle of the left side asks “Do you accept my love?” I saved this article when I saw that I had three different covers with Scott # US 114, each cover with the stamp in a different position. Each cover was addressed to unmarried ladies with the same last name, with two of the covers addressed to the same lady.

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Hey Kyle. Have you thought about filling those spots of #3 and #4 with proofs? Nice copies of 3p4 and 4p4 can be had for about $200 each. I started doing this about 10 years ago and I now have a large (and relatively inexpensive) collection of p3 and p4 proofs, as well as over 150 small die proofs (p2) from the 1903 Roosevelt albums. Also, can you reply to this note with some details of that #2 on cover (date, from what city, to what city and adressee's name)? I am the editor of the 1847 issue cover census on the USPCS websire and I'd like to make sure your cover is listed. Thanks.

You have a really nice album, some really special material in there… I do want to say though, in many cases you could possibly stretch the money you spend a lot further. I don’t want to point out certain stamp auctions, you might end up cursing me later lol, but my point being that you ought to check out some auctions (even ebay) before purchasing them at retail prices. If possible, you might make that amazing album you’ve created even more amazing. I buy & sell stamps because it’s the only way I can afford such things, it also gives me an excuse to buy large collections. Anyways, I wanted to Thank You for making this video, I especially appreciate you saying what you paid for each stamp - it’s really helpful..

This video was a pleasure to watch! I hope you do more videos like this in the future. You have a wonderful collection, I especially love all those covers. One question: Why do you keep all the duplicates together in one stamp slot sometimes? I personally would put my duplicates in a separate stock book, so that you’d be able to see the picture of the stamp that was kept in the album well. (This is not meant as a criticism or anything, I’m just curious)

Wonderful album. Excellent attention to detail. Just a heads up, I would remove the #13 that has foxing as it can spread from the stamp to the album page and then to the other stamps, especially if you're in a more humid climate.

Hi Sir! I am sure some would envy your beautiful collection album. May I know the cat value of #17

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Do you have a 12 cent Washington 1868-70 (black) H grill by chance. If you do I’d be curious how you stumbled upon it.

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Hi there, very impressive. I just inherited my dad's stamp collection, I think you might be interested. It's pretty much the same album as you just showed. Let me know if you are interested. Thanks

I have a very large collection possibly some your looking for I'm looking to sell my hole collection

You put too much value on certificates. Can be helpful, but not worth any premium and "experts" often disagree or fall from grace. In my opinion, the entire grading of stamps needs to be reconsidered as grading should be based on all factors of a stamps condition and eye appeal, not just centering. Don't give up on getting the higher value Columbians unused as eBay often has great deals on ungummed or regummed copies. You still get great eye appeal, but without original gum. Funny how you spend so many hours pulling collections apart to put your collection together only to have someone someday pull your collection apart to put their collection together and the process keeps repeating itself. After 175 years, I wonder just how many collections your stamp #1 has been in?

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Collecting shades of stamps that are not identified in the Scott catalog as legitimate varieties is a waste of time. Shades variations as such, are usually the the result of fading or exposure to something that caused the tone to change.

The cat values you show are all for VF centering, FYI. For 19th century stamps you definitely need to consult the SPECIALIZED BY GRADE catalog for accurate valuation. Your true cat values for almost all these stamps are less than half what you show due to centering. Of course you know that cat value for 19th century stamps is much closer to retail price than most 20th century issues, so there is that going for you ;-)