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Selling Your Collection... How About
Auctions?
 Public auctions
are wonderful venues for acquiring everything from distinctive
quality antiques to important and often unique postal history and
stamps. Collectors often become addicted to them and millions of new
buyers and sellers have entered this time-honored marketplace
because of the new online auctions on the Internet.
Auctions are, obviously, an
effective method for locating collectibles and selling them. But
really: are they the best option for the seller?
As an active—and vigorous—buyer of
postal history, manuscript, documents, autographs and other
paper-related historical items over the years, we are, naturally, a
competitor to the auction market when a seller is considering his
options when disposing of one's holdings.
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Auctions have been popular sales venues
for over 250 years. Shown above: Enthusiastic bidders at a New York
stamp show auction in 1949.
We believe that, in seeking to
purchase a seller's properties, auctions have perhaps (and "perhaps"
is a very important word here) ONLY ONE advantage over
the values we are able to offer the seller: competitive bidding
may perhaps allow a seller to receive more money for his
collectible(s). After all, this is the goal of the auctioneer.
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This Issue's Special
Treasure...Recently
discovered: a French liquor broker's mailing label postmarked in
Veracruz, Mexico. |
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A Franklin D. Roosevelt Discovery
Fred Schmitt's
PERSPECTIVE |
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An insured cover
sent by FDR to a stamp dealer in England during World War II. It
contained stamps. |
Many
collectors—even some of the more experienced ones —continue
to believe that there is little value in the postal history of the
20th century. After all, "it's so recent!" This may have once been
the case, but today it is virtually the opposite. For instance, look
at the cover shown above.
President Roosevelt was a stamp
collector and, in the heat of World War II, he continued to make
purchases from stamp dealers. And he used the regular mails to do
so. [Continued on page 2...]
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