It can be quite surprising how fast the value can add up for what looks like worthless paper to most people. I will buy a shoebox full (of the right stuff) or a room full. It takes years of experience to figure out what collectors are looking for, but that's what I do! The nature of the correspondence and of course the quantity and overall condition. Value depends on the time period it was from, the countries it came from, Part of a large First Day Cover collection for which I paid $9000 ! Paid $2000 for this pile of boxes filled with envelopes from foreign countries (no letters). Paid $650 for this box of special commemorative airmail envelopes from the 1920s-30s. Paid $175 for this box of envelopes from a family correspondence (no letters included), mostly from Europe in the 1950s. The stamp collection was handed down to the next generation to have fun with! Other dealers and they said they weren't worth anything because there were no rare stamps on them."Īfter inspection, I paid $1,000 for that box. I asked, "Are thereĪny of the old letters?" Answer was, "Yes, there is a shoebox of envelopes from the years 1920s to 1950s, but no letters in them. It turns out her joy was corresponding with other collectors around the world and trading stamps. Martha had a lot of fun with it,īut never spent any money on it. To a couple of stamp dealers, and the opinion was unanimous: nothing in it that couldn't be replaced for a few cents a stamp. His great-aunt Martha had left him her stamp collection. I paid $300 per box for 10 boxes - $3000 out of nowhere for the lucky owners! Needless to say,Ī fellow called me. Wanted the space! Lucky for them, they called me. There were ten big boxes, and the new management These envelopes (with no letter contents) had been accumulatedįor years by an employee of a professional organization whose members sent in their dues from all over the world. I recently bought a business correspondence that was just about to be sent to the dump. What looks like worthless paper to some people can become real cash in your pocket! Often found in business archives, estates or attics, or it may be a portion of a stamp collector's collection. I buy old envelopes (with or without the original letters), and postcards that went through the mail. You could turn that lucky find into some serious cash! Old envelopes (with or without the letters), postcards etc? What do you think of my theory? Got any other evidence to back it up? Show me your envelopes! I'm thinking Sweden should have some yellow and blue ones.Have you found an old personal or business correspondence? I enjoy thinking that you can tell where a letter is from just from the colors on the outside edge of the envelope. I love the idea that "official" airmail envelopes are like little flags being sent by mail. They are edged in red and green just like the main colors on the Mexican flag. Alice thinks I'm on to something and she sent me some envelopes from Mexico. The colors of Brazil's flag? Green, yellow and blue. The airmail envelopes from Brazil are edged in green and yellow. She sent some zines of the postal uniforms there and we got to talking about why they chose certain colors over others. Occaisionally, I'd have a different color combonation, but I didn't put it together until Alice's recent trip to Brazil. and Australia are all red and blue so I thought that all airmail was just red and blue. I didn't notice it at first because airmail envelopes from the U.S.A. What I have discovered is that the colors seem to correspond to the colors of that particular country's flag. The most striking difference is often in the color of the chevrons. All the airmail envelopes have that wonderful chevron edging and each is unique to its own country. My point is though, that I've started to notice something, and it's something that I can't exactly find corroboration about on this magical information land that is the Internet. If you can't tell, I love it! Alice is the best. Most of her focus is mail and postal themed, and so I have become the lucky recipent of many a jolly package of epistolary bits and bobs from all sorts of places. She is such a kind, generous and creative person that she makes zines and packages of her journeys. You see, my friend and pen pal Alice travels the world.
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