Stamp Collecting

kenwood

I have some foreign stamps on their envelopes that I want to get rid of. Will send them on F.O.C to anybody that wants them.

Will have some a few times a year.


PM with details



Denis

ODD-JOB

Nice of you Denis !
A very kind gesture from you , and since you get nothing in return ... then that makes you a rarity these days

No thanks for the stamps , but fair play for asking.

kenwood

Hi Odd-Job,

Well they are no use to me and may be some use to some person starting out in the stamp collecting hobby.

I am a Radio Experimenter and get a lot of overseas post seeking QSl (confirmation of contact) Cards from me.



Denis

zulfikarMD

Kenwood, I was a stamp collector. stop collecting stamps since i moved to ireland from india. But i would say you are inspiring me to start my stamp collecting hobby back again I will PM you my details if you want to send me on stamps.

Thanks.
Zulfiqar

Judgement Day

The Irish Peatlands Conservation Council are a very worthy cause that takes used stamps see details below:

[SIZE=+4]Save Stamps & Save Bogs[/SIZE]

IPCC turn used stamps into money to help our work of saving Irish bogs. Valuable stamps that are spotted are sold separately, but even perfectly ordinary stamps are welcome. They get made up into packs for sale in IPCC's Enviro Shop or are sold in bulk in Ireland to stamp dealers. Last year Euro 7,000 worth of stamps were sold for IPCC.
If you can help us, please put your stamps into an envelope and send them to: IPCC, Lullymore, Rathangan, Co. Kildare. There's no need to lift them off the paper, but if you have time to trim them leaving a 1cm margin, we'd be delighted.
And its not just stamps we need. We can also make use of stamp collections, first day covers, old & foreign coins and bank notes, phone or call cards, post cards, petrol vouchers, supermarket club points, special offer labels, bus ticket change receipts and cap badges.
E-mail us here at bogs@ipcc.ie if you're not sure if we take it!

zulfikarMD

Judgement Day wrote: »

The Irish Peatlands Conservation Council are a very worthy cause that takes used stamps see details below:

What do this organization do? Do they have their website? Apologies as I am from India and not aware of this organization. Also, would be grateful if I can be of any help to this organization. Thanks. Zulfiqar

geraardo

I was given a collection how do you know if they are worth anything.

martinstuart

Thanks for this thread. I have a bunch of stamps I was looking to donate but I didn't know which charities/organisations could make use of them... I thought I'd update this thread since it was 2009 since there was news of which charities make money from your stamp collections....

The IPCC (Irish Peatland Conservation Council) still (July, 2014) accepts your stamp collections... See the "Help IPCC" tab on their ipcc.ie website

Here's a relevant cut-and-paste from their website...

"IPCC turn used stamps into money to help our work of saving Irish bogs. Valuable stamps that are spotted are sold separately, but even perfectly ordinary stamps are welcome. They get made up into packs for sale in IPCC’s Nature Shop or are sold in bulk in Ireland to stamp dealers. Our collectors campaign is worth €10,000 each year to IPCC.

If you can help us, please put your stamps into an envelope and send them to: IPCC, Lullymore, Rathangan, Co. Kildare. There’s no need to lift them off the paper, but if you have time to trim them leaving a 1cm margin all around, we’d be delighted.

And its not just stamps we need. We can also make use of:

stamp collections
first day covers
old Irish & foreign coins and bank notes
phone or call cards
post cards
bus ticket change receipts
cap badges

.... Last year alone we received 83,000 grams 
of stamps from our supporters and the general public."

Judgement Day

@ martinstuart

The trouble is that it's so expensive to post a worthwhile amount of stamps to a charity that you're better off posting them a donation instead. I know, I'm driven mad trying to figure out what do with many hundreds that I kept for just such causes. The charities sell them in bulk to dealers for very small return so you can see why posting them to a charity is futile - send a donation instead and light a fire with the stamps.

fussyonion

Hi there, my partner collects stamps.

If you've got any (franked or unfranked, on envelopes or loose) that you no longer want, he'd be absolutely thrilled to take them off your hands.
We're in Dublin

Thanks!

No Username Yet

geraardo wrote: »

I was given a collection how do you know if they are worth anything.

I have also been given a very large stamp collection from my diseased aunt, I don't know what to do with them or their value

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

Judgement Day

No Username Yet wrote: »

I have also been given a very large stamp collection from my diseased aunt, I don't know what to do with them or their value

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

MacDonnell Whyte hold regular stamp auctions and may be able to advise you.

MacDonnell Whyte Ltd.,

102 Leinster Road, Dublin.6.

Tel: (01) 497 7449

mdwltd@eircom.net

coylemj

No Username Yet wrote: »

I have also been given a very large stamp collection from my diseased aunt, I don't know what to do with them or their value

Any help would be greatly appreciated

No Username Yet

Judgement Day wrote: »

MacDonnell Whyte hold regular stamp auctions and may be able to advise you.

MacDonnell Whyte Ltd.,

102 Leinster Road, Dublin.6.

Tel: (01) 497 7449

mdwltd@eircom.net

Many Thanks for the information, any lead is always an appreciated help.

NUY

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coylemj wrote: »

Dont know whether the misspelling was me or "spelllcheker"

Thanks kindly for the "TPC" recommendation

Ill try to be more careful, I also appreciate your condolences too.

KR

NUY

coylemj

No Username Yet wrote: »

Dont know whether the misspelling was me or "spelllcheker"

Thanks kindly for the "TPC" recommendation

We all make these mistakes, some of them give rise to opportunities that can't be resisted. Please don't take it personally.

feargale

Maybe I'm in the wrong thread, but I've searched extensively, and a Mod may wish to move this post elsewhere. I see in Monday's Irish Times that the Faroe Islands have just issued a stamp honouring Roger Casement on a stamp in conjunction with Faroese Daniel J. Danielsen who collaborated with Casement in his exposure of slavery in the Congo. My question is: What other Irish people have been commemorated on foreign stamps? Off-hand I can only think of the Soviet Union, which, around 1950, issued a pair of stamps commemorating (1) Scotsman Robert Burns and (2) George Bernard Shaw. Any more anybody?