Odd finds?

so she came back in... for $6 USD i got -









based on what i can see at a quick glance i will have some Germany in there and perhaps a few topicals.. the rest if for the prize bin..

for $6 this is a pretty good find!!

crazyquilter,

they look like little sewing boxes.. i am actually going to give those back to the lady who got these for me since she does a lot of quilting etc. and can likely use them more than i can.

Greetings Mr. Bear and Fellow SB Boarders
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Up until the free-for-the-asking offer from Mr. KSstampman here on Stamp Bears (over a year ago and I'm still not through sorting), the biggest crop of stamps to fall into my lap came from a couple of old maid sisters. Back in April of 2010 I was surfing through the half dozen or so Facebook stamp groups. One of the sisters had just posted a notice that they would like to give their dear old departed father's stamp collection that they found molding away in their basement to whomever wanted it and they would pay postage. They had no intention nor desire to continue with the collection.  I immediately commented back that they could probably donate it to a local grade school, or boy/girl scout troop, or stamp club, or church, or old folks retirement home, or a veterans hospital near them in an east coast state and not worry about postage. Else-wise, I would be quite happy to accept. I even offered to reimburse them for the cost of mailing.  They would not accept anything and choose to send them to me anyway if I promised to take care of them.  I did and they did.
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Within a week a package arrived at me deluxe, custom-built, double-wide out here along the trail. The package contained a hard cover 1935 Paragon Stamp Album and a cookie tin full of loose stamps (the latest was a U.S. 1940 carmine rose two-cent 90-millimeter Anti-aircraft Gun, National Defense issue (Scott 900).
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After sorting and identifying all the stamps I found that there were 1,220 in total.  Almost 90 percent were exactly what one would expect from an amateur collector -- minimum cv.  However, the nicest was a Norway carmine 20+25-ore North Cape semi-postal issued 28 June 1930 (Scott B2).  The 2012 Scott lists this stamp now at $75 used from the 2008 catalog value (cv) of fifty dollars .  A few more nice stamps brought the average 2008 cv of all the stamps to $0.68. 
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NORWAY -- SCOTT B2
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I contacted a local florist where the old maids lived and had a large bouquet of flowers delivered to them.
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Respectfully,

Gordon Lee