If you have a bunch of philatelic albums and old stamps at home, what are you going to do with them, please let me know, okay?
If not, what are you going to do with these albums and old stamps?
Philately is a hobby, it is to enjoy the joy of the collection process, as long as you like it.
Philately is also a scam
I once read an article about an old gentleman who spent his whole life collecting a house of old antiques, and when he was old and unable to take care of his daily life, he went to a nursing home, and only brought a bag of change of clothes and a purple sand cup when he left.
It can only be used as a commemoration of the fall of philately, mainly because of the development and convenience of modern communication, resulting in the mailing method through the post office, basically completely withdrawn from the stage of history, so the stamp has lost its use value.
However, if there are children and grandchildren who can accept the collection, I believe that in the future, he will still have very important historical value and significance
As soon as possible, find a philatelist friend to give it away, otherwise really, it will either be sold as scrap or burned. I'm similar to you, but I didn't ask my son to ask for it, and I'm embarrassed to call it, if you can't find someone to send, then let it be!
The strange thing is that more than 10 years ago, once I went to the post office to send a registered letter on business, and brought the special stamps that the unit bought uniformly, I remember that the postage seemed to be more than 20 yuan, and when I handed the stamps in, the teller actually did not accept it, and I had to pay cash, so shocked that my mouth did not close for a long time, and the stamps were not used to send things? No way, I had to pay cash, asked for a receipt, went back for reimbursement, and returned the useless stamps to the unit. I still don't know what stamps are for.
A condition for collection is scarcity and non-reproducibility, and stamps themselves are modern industrial prints, which can be copied in large quantities. I used to collect stamps, and a few years ago I drew two dollars and bought an 80 monkey ticket online, and the seller said how much I wanted. In the 90s, a monkey ticket was sold for more than 8,000 yuan, do you know how much the house price was at that time? Our county seat is about 300 yuan, and a stamp can be exchanged for a 30-square-meter house.
What you say is from the heart, and it's very honest. It seems that I am poor and can't play, so I won't play. There is a "philatelic company" in Beijing that called me and said that he would give me a commemorative stamp album and let me pick it up. I was too timid to go. If someone wants to buy it, they will sell it, and they can't be sold as scrap.
My neighbor old professor, his wife said that when he was young, he didn't eat to buy books and stamps, the largest room in the house is his study, the master bedroom bathroom renovation together has more than 40 square meters, a lot of unique products, a few years ago, his son said that it was donated to the Cultural Relics Bureau or the library, picked a small part, nothing else. Now it occupies a room, according to 100,000 square meters, this room is worth 4 million, if it is rented, it is at least 3,000 yuan per month.
If it is a ticket book after 1991, especially after 1999, there will not be many "rare species"! Since the descendants do not want to preserve the heirlooms, they should sell them as soon as they can exchange a few cigarettes and alcohol for money. The more people want it in the future, the more people will want it, and there will never be a reappearance of the hot scene in Yuetan Park.
Now it seems that don't be too persistent in doing anything, I also bought some back then, one is like to see, and the other is that Zhijue has a certain collection value, but then because people compare and read, I couldn't insist, and I gave up halfway, and now it seems to be a good thing, so I summed up that I can't be too persistent in anything, and I want to seize the momentum.
Philately was originally a noble hobby activity, 84 began to be popular, 87 years appeared the first philatelic climax, these years are the highlight of philatelic enthusiasts, stamps both to cultivate sentiment, and in those years of rapid value-added, the stamp company at this time saw the business opportunity, the past to print hundreds of thousands of stamps and souvenir sheets also quickly increased to millions or even tens of millions. 92 The second round of monkey tickets is an unprecedented hundreds of millions. In fact, 92 years later, stamps have lost the value of long-term holdings, but people do not realize this, the stamp company in this period of time to make a lot of money, a vigorous philatelic hobby activities to snuff invisibly. I haven't booked stamps after 92 years, you have so many yearbooks now, there should be a lot of stamps, the key is that your son is not willing to continue your hobby, I only have two suggestions for you: first, the climax of stamps in 1987, 1991, 1997 and 2015. Second, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the stamps are basically about a few tens of yuan, and the end of these stamps in our hands will not be better than those sets after the founding of the country.
I was admitted to university in 80 and started collecting stamps, until 2010, when I slowly stopped buying them, before and after more than 30 years, every year in August, I have to spend a weekend and two days to take down all the stamps, page by page, one by one, just worried that they will be moldy. The process of sorting and reintegrating every year is also a process of appreciation. It will also remind me of an unpleasant philatelic exhibition experience, that year, I made a work of my own stamps with a theme, participated in the stamp exhibition, only to get my work back after the stamp exhibition and found that the first stamp of FAW Automobile was missing. I was really distressed at the time, and then I laughed dumbly!
Now the set is useless, because now the country is reprinting, stamps, Coins have no collection value at all, originally it was scarce and expensive, now the country that less he issued something, the United States economy is not good to print dollars, but a large number of dollars on the market affect the market, and our country's experts are amazing, do not print RMB to print these stamps that could have been collected, RMB, with these non-circulating RMB for the RMB in your hand, you take these non-circulating RMB as treasures, collect and flow to their children, not ready to sell at all, so you spend money to buy the same value of RMB, go home to collect, not ready to flow, then the country collects the illiquid money to steal the beams for the currency in circulation, and can issue the same value of the currency, the key has no impact on the market at all, this is the sadness of the Chinese, is the joke of the collection market,
Philately collecting began in 1991, when the circulation increased considerably. I also have a bunch of my own hands to throw it away, and I am reluctant to let my son take it away and tell him that the words are similar to you, and my son looked at me and smiled evilly, probably similar to what your son thought
The collection, in which thousands of families participate, is a joke and an IQ tax. Collectibles are valuable, one is that the number of surviving is scarce, and the other is that they have survived for a long time. Whether stamps can be value-added, their own measure does not meet the value-added elements. There are many people who want to increase the value of stamps and order 10 volumes a year. If you have a place, you can leave it for a long time, but you need to prevent mildew.
I am the owner of the collectibles market on Zhongxing Road in Chongqing, and I know that the transaction is shady, stamps, and coins are the most unfair, and I have helped others collect for decades, and finally the people are gone, leaving them to future generations, and the descendants do not understand the market, and sell them to postal merchants, and postal merchants make a lot of money. For example, if the value is 100,000 yuan, the postal merchant only gives 30,000 yuan, and slowly increases the price by 50,000 yuan. In the end, the postal merchant earned 50,000 yuan. There are some more stupid descendants who do not investigate the market price, and the old man died and left the descendants with stamps and coins worth 300,000 yuan, which were sold for tens of thousands of yuan in the trading market. There is no income before the age of 20, and it is the norm to collect letter sales tickets and cut bubbles to dry.
After working after the age of 20, the combination of letter sales tickets and new tickets, the biggest fun is to visit the postal market to check and fill in the gaps to obtain a sense of achievement, such as Qi Baishi's set of five years to collect, the first set of new tickets bought is Xu Beihong's galloping horse, which cost 8 yuan a huge sum. After the age of 35, the postal market gradually declined, and he began to book new tickets at the post office, receive them once a year, and throw them on the shelves without looking through them after checking that there are no defects. When I was almost 50 years old, I finally made up my mind to climb out of the pit, and put all those hard work into two large sorting boxes, piled them up in a corner that did not take up space and was not an eyesore.
When stamp collecting began in the early 80s, it was still difficult to save money and sell stamps. In addition to bookstores, the places I go on business trips are philatelic stores. Because there were few philatelists at that time, I also participated in a philatelic congress in the city, and met a leader of the industry in the district, who was a well-known local philatelist. A few years later, when I heard that he had died, I asked his son what was going on with the stamps? With an epiphany, what is good in your eyes may be worthless in the eyes of others.
If you dare to take it out and discuss it with others, your emotional value will instantly become negative. Although the diamond can't be sold for money, you can still brag about how much it cost to buy it, and this would be a joke if you blew it. If you say that the emotional value does not come from the collection value but from the ornamental value, then open a web page, the picture is casual, high-definition, beautiful, and spike stamps. Let's be clear, I never talk about my philately now.
Now philately has lost its original meaning, the circulation is huge, and the market has basically not sent letters as stamp consumption, so it has become a paper head below par. Stamps issued before 2000 are still collectible, and some after 2000 are valuable! Most of them are worthless
I started collecting philately in the 80s of the last century, stamps and philatelic products stacked two bookshelves, moved in 2016, because the new house area is small and there is nowhere to place, so "painfully" sold, how much to earn a little RMB, now it seems to be good luck, if you deal with it now, half of the loss to sell may also be priceless, the collection market is not what it used to be, the change is too great.
I was also a philatelic enthusiast, and I have been collecting stamps for 30 years from the beginning of the last century to last year (2022). Due to the cold stamp market, there is no place to communicate, and children do not have a hobby. I also want to deal with it, but I don't know where to deal with it? Now it's a yam that burns hands!
I have a lot of stamps, some because of the dampness of the house can not be wanted, the booklet sells scrap, throws garbage, the disposal is almost, at that time solved the spiritual emptiness, has completed its effect, now the heart is much more relaxed, do not believe you try, anyway, 20 years and 30 years later, you have to leave, what is the use of keeping
I also have some stamps, but not as much as yours, about 30 years ago I started collecting stamps, that is, fiddling with it for a few years, the original idea is the same as yours, now it has been in the cold in the cabinet for more than 20 years, maybe every few years will take it out and look through it, see your article, I want to see them again
Many of us before the 60s were fond of stamp collecting. Most of our sons don't like to collect things anymore, and the only thing they like to collect is the renminbi! I guess when our grandchildren grow up, they may like to collect all kinds of tattered things
Stamp collecting, like collecting old coins and food stamps, is mostly for fun. If you want to make a fortune by increasing its value, it is more difficult than launching a rocket for an individual. No matter how much it is worth to publish online, if you really have to cash it out, you will find out that you have been deceived.
In fact, the happiest thing about stamp collecting is the process of collecting, and the excitement of getting a set of old tickets was never there. Don't worry too much about expecting him to get rich, if it's just a memory, it's actually quite a feeling to flip through it occasionally. I started collecting stamps when I was a child, and the time is about the same as you, and now I am no longer in my hometown, and I have continued my hobby for a few years, and then I was too busy to break it, and my hometown only goes back once in several years, but looking through those memories of the past, it will actually be very beautiful.
Philately, chess, Go, Peking opera, some local operas, some old objects, no descendants participated, and young people are now playing new things. Some disappeared and new ones appeared. There is no such thing as a long-lasting event.
Nowadays, young people can tell stories and make money a lot more than the older generation, so these stories are not easy to tell in the future, and they are not worth much.
Originally, these things were also a kind of game of transferring money in the times. There will be more games in the future. Young people would rather play with virtual currencies for more fun. Of course, there will be many games that will follow the times.
In short, the essence is a game, a game in the pocket.
This is a personal hobby, don't want to make a fortune on this, to have a normal heart, I order a book every year, this year also ordered a volume, there are more than 30 books at home, look at it in your spare time, think about it will have a sense of overkill, how to deal with it behind you is a matter of descendants, don't think too much, think too much about the spirit.
In the Internet era, in the face of intelligent layout, everything in the past is now unbearable. Stamp collecting, collecting cigarette labels, collecting all kinds of tickets, coins, all kinds of bracelets, pendants, handles, etc., now it seems that they were coaxed to play at the beginning. None of today's children like these objects. I also have this hobby, and I have a lot of things in stock, and I told my child to bring them to him and ask him to keep them. Guess what people say? It's not uncommon, you can keep it for yourself, I don't have a place to put it. It's really hot face with cold ass (>_<)