COLLECTION STORAGE

Anyone familiar with our operation will realise that your describers handle and evaluate a huge volume of stamps ranging from beautifully written-up collections complete with little illustrations, photographs and cuttings to messy untidy accumulations containing who knows what? Much of this material appears in auction having come from executors or collectors themselves who have changed their interests or simply feel the need to sell. Which type of lot sells better? Usually the type where the buyer has a pretty good idea what he is buying and the messy boxes can go for good money but more often that not it's the buyer of these who finds the hidden gems. And the moral - you don't have to write up your collection to exhibition standard but a simple pencil note under that ordinary-looking stamp will indicate to the potential buyer that this is the scarce watermark or the rare die 2 and it could just be that you or yours will get that little bit more for your collection at the end of the day.