|
FOR THE BALCONY ----------WHAT HAPPENS TO CLASSICBRUCE's COLLECTION ------many of you wonder whats happens at this point ,with a lot of stamp auction experience and being a customer of HAMER-SCHAU ,I thought it would be good to explain the process. First it sounds like the lot was consign to a public auction ,and not sold to the firm,so we will start with that scenero .The collection or accumaltion is boxed and shipped to the firm . Upon receiveing it the first thing the appraiser establishes is are they dealing with a experience philatelist or a novice .This is very important in how its evaluated.The way its organised and shipped helps to determine that ,is there a shipping inventory or is everything just throwen in boxes and no organization to the material. These first few minutes will tell the appraser if the collector was a serious student of philately or just a accumalator of cheap stamps.He will look how the collection/accumaltion is stored in albums or binders or in organized stockbooks or is it in packets glassines or mixed in boxes with little reguard to value. The first thing will be a quick review to see if there are items {valued over $200.00} that can be listed seperately in the catalog like stamps,covers or binders.If the apprasier finds little or none,then they would look for studies ,country collections or binders and albums that can be listed as seperate items in the auction catalog .Finding little or finding something to list as a auction lot seperately. The rest of Classicbruces collection will be broken down to manageable bulk lots ,at this point a lot of blank album pages,binders and reference books and catalogs are thrown in the trash and the remainer of the collection will be a few bulk lots at the end of the auction catalog .Some of the material like covers and binders may have his name on it ,but this will be the end of many years of collecting and something he spent many happy hours with. Now one thing skipped over above is that if he had some very valueable stamps or has done a lot of detail research and wrote up important research on pages and some of his material ,stamps and covers are first class nockout stuff ,then its a big mistake to consign that material to a regional stamp auction firm because it wouldn't get international review and would be sold to someone who will then buy it and ship it to a major house for a international buyers review . The most important thing is to have someone review it before it leaves the house not leave it to some apprasor in a far away city to tell you what it is worth after he has it in his hands ......paul
|
button below
Must use Buy It Now and PayPal.