Dialysis, damned if you do...dead if you don't 10 Nov 2020 11:07:24am
re: Gold Replica First Day Covers
My local club has a fellow who actively (but quietly) collects them. He has a lot of high end collections but his 'gold stamp' collection is one of his 'fun' collections. He cuts the gold stamps off the FDCs and mounts just the stamps in a US National Album with black mounts, it is actually a pretty stunning display.
He tells me that this is the album he pulls out when non-hobbyists ask him about stamp collections, he says it always 'wows them'. Since he only buys the FDCs at less than 10 cents each, he says he enjoys this album as much as anything else he collects.
Like many of us, I typically get a handful of these at any one time. But if I had a significant number of them, I would consider starting a collection as described above.
Don
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and that, my friends, is the likely cap of value on the aftermarket, and that from a guy who has dedicated an album AND mounts to the cannibalized carcasses
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As a sideline, I collect those "gold" FDCs and I also remove the stamps and keep them in a stock book. Was planning on designing some sort of album pages to mount them next to the actual postage stamp they represent, but haven't yet. There are a number of issues that I still need to acquire and keep on the lookout for those. There isn't a complete listing of the ones that were sold by Postal Collectors Society (and a few others)and many US stamps are not represented. Its just something "fun" for me to collect.
Will probably be worth millions after I leave the happy collecting grounds. Or not.
"... Will probably be worth millions after I leave the happy collecting grounds ..."
You remind me of an old New Yorker cartoon. A man is standing at an easel in his kitchen, in his underwear, with stubble on his face, a cigarette dangling from his mouth, a beer in one hand, and a paint brush in the other. His wife is standing behind him, pointing a pistol at his back. He is saying "Don't worry, Marge, these'll be worth a fortune when I'm gone."
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
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