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Y favourite stamp is probably the same as my wife’s – the GB PUC £1.
Just take a look at the design / engraving – and in single
monochrome – utterly magnificent. Strictly speaking I should say
the 1d black – it’s iconic and an amazing work of design/art in the first place
as this stamp represents in communication terms the ‘Apple i-phone’ of its
time – also barring damage to the actual paper – the 1d black is virtually
indestructible ... the colour is so ‘fast’ that you can soak a 1d black in a
1/10 part solution of ‘milton/water’ (nappy bleach) ... the paper will turn
white but the black will remain unaffected. This is the reason why you
sometimes see a magnificent used 1d black but the paper is too white –
simply it has been left too long in bleach ... over-white paper will actually
lower value ... as with most things it is a question of degree ...... Now 60 quarterly auctions and 15 years later this is the reason why realising
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P.S. You walk into Marks & Sparks. You are looking for a nice jacket on the rail.
There’s one priced at £100. Above it is a sign saying if this jacket is not sold today it will
be £89 tomorrow ... so you decide the discount is worth waiting for ... next day you
return and there’s a sign saying if this jacket is not sold today it will be £78 tomorrow - Do you buy it now, before somebody else pips you to the post or let it go another
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Y favourite stamp is probably the same as my wife’s – the GB PUC £1.
...can cost less than you think ...can cost less than you think
Reader: That’s all very interesting Andrew, but where is this going ..?
When I was, theoretically, growing up (in my teens)
you could ask me the retail price of virtually any
British commemorative set (think ‘special issue’ for the
indoctrinated) and I would know it as black is to white.
But nowadays, in value terms, what is black and what
is white? – courtesy perhaps more than anything of the
internet ... so much is ‘grey’ and blurred around the edges
... that ‘retail’ price depends more than ever upon the
quality of what is being retailed and no longer does one
price fit all ... Just search on-line for an ‘Agatha Christie’
booklet – don’t look at what sellers wish for – look at
reality – click ‘completed’ – far fewer do ... actual ‘sold’
prices can be 50% of each other... now look at fixed retail prices, consider the postally
valid ‘face value’ and finally the ‘catalogue’ value ... you
could be forgiven for throwing your arms up in the air. The
point is making sense of it all ... not just for ‘bog standard’
commodity price items but for stamps with character –
generally pre-QEII and pre 1950 / 1940 classic stamps of
which they’re not making any more (excepting on-line
auction offers of modern fakes/reproductions) ... so it
follows that if you can be confident of just four things:
1. the supplier is real and reputable (and internet ratings
only tell part of the story), 2. the quality is as described,
3. the price is realistic against comparison, 4. You have a
reliable guarantee ... then that’s the way for you to go ...But to realise your dream maybe there’s another way for you to
go so that ... turning philatelic dreams into reality may cost
you less than you thinkI don’t believe in ‘one price fits all different qualities’
or grades. Life doesn’t work that way, otherwise we’ll be
upgrading ‘in between’ stamps to higher grades – which is
an accusation often levelled at retailers. Even with up to 26,510
different lots each stamp/cover/collection in our auction is
individually described and valued.
NO, the solution is in accepting that if something
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was unscrupulous most dealers profit lies in the stock
presented in front of you – and if it is not selling then they
will have no money to buy new stock to show you ... so I
decided I didn’t want to spend my life looking at stamps
not selling ... it did take a little ‘grit’ to see if my ideas
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Colleagues using the unique ‘U P A Reducing Estimate System’ in our last auctionYou are looking for a nice jacket on the rail.
There’s one priced at £100. Above it is a sign saying if this jacket is not sold today it willdecided I didn’t want to spend my life looking at stamps
not selling ... it did take a little ‘grit’ to see if my ideasThere’s one priced at £100. Above it is a sign saying if this jacket is not sold today it will
be £89 tomorrow ... so you decide the discount is worth waiting for ... next day you
return and there’s a sign saying if this jacket is not sold today it will be £78 tomorrow- Do you buy it now, before somebody else pips you to the post or let it go another
items with 100’s of lots you’re probably missing from
realising
Colleagues using the unique ‘U P A Reducing Estimate System’ in our last auction
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