Stamps

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Does anyone know of a website to find information on stamps? Something like Numista but for stamps. I have an entire album and would like to find some info on them :.
As you are in UK I have used this site to look up UK stamps ...
https://www.collectgbstamps.co.uk/
Not sure if it is like Numista, or where to go for world stamps.

Example - these stamps I got on a purchase, and looked for them on there ...
https://en.numista.com/forum/topic82095.html#p700977
Look at Colnect:
https://colnect.com/en/stamps

It's the closest thing to Numista for stamps.
Stampboards the global stamp forum can help.

http://www.stampboards.com/

Be careful though as its run by Australian men, who are quite judgemental and narrow minded.
You need to join and do an introduction post before you starting asking questions.

However you will likely be told your collection is worthless if its

1. An instant collection (Like a packet of world stamps that was cheap)
2. In a childrens style album issued between 1935 and 1990.
3. Mostly a mix of world stamps used and no more than 100 per country.
4. No real order of semblance of stamps (All piled together on a page)
5. Many stamps, stained, ripped, toned or heavily used.
6. Many loose ones on envelopes etc,
7. Proliferation of stamps from Eastern Europe and Latin America (Magyar Posta, Posta Romania, Nicaragua)
8. Large Pictorial thematic stamps from places like Ras Al Khaima, Manama and Equatorial Guinea.

It may be worth money if

1. Primarily stamps before 1950 and complete sets
2. Pages have been written up and some care is shown in stamp arrangement.
3. A high quality album (Not a kiddie album, or with illustrated pages for each country or printed on cheap paper). Collection looks built on over years, not an instant collection.
4. Few gaps in a written up collection.
5. Stamps in a good condition (Less used, more mint and no faults at all, clean looking)
6. One country collections from a respectable country (Like Great Britain, British commonwealth, France, Pacific etc).

Hope this helps
I love coins
This is the album. It’s 1960’s I think and half of the stamps fell out or were loose so I need to get them remounted.

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