Combining my two hobbies.

[Paint Your Wagon]

Paint your wagon,
I once had that Belgium 20c stamp! 
Too bad it was stolen during a robbery...I don't want to know the value today.

In belgium doctors still visit patients at home .My wife gets regular doctors visits and so I often have discussions
with our favourite doctor . One of his patients was bugglerised and they had thrown all silver coins on the floor not worhty of
carrying  The stupid shits probably took a lot of things worth less like a computer and a television etc which secondhand go for a
quarter or less of the original price
They also left an original painting on the wall .
Of course all the silver coins were full of fingerprints and bangs etc Wanton destruction.
But I am sure they would not have taken stamps .
A used early belgian postage stamp may be quoted 100 euro but the going price is 20 euro or less

[KurtS]

A used early belgian postage stamp may be quoted 100 euro but the going price is 20 euro or less

That's a bit of a relief--and seems to be the same general price as years ago. I guess stamp values haven't changed as much as coins?    I have a lot of early Finnish and Russian stamps too...but I guess the market is rather limited there, lol.

[Paint Your Wagon]

Stamps are disgusting
In general I can get the price I paid in 1970 and loose 38 years of intrest at 4%
I have first day covers like the chappel of reine elisabeth which i paid 10 dollars which are not worth 2 dollars after 38 years
If I had put that amount of money in gold coins I would still have had no more but at least I would have had the hope of getting more the next few years

[triggersmob]

You are correct in what you say about stamp prices. Unless you have the more valuable and rare stamps, they will not increase in value much.
That's why I collect, just for the sake of collecting and for fun.

[Paint Your Wagon]

You are correct in what you say about stamp prices. Unless you have the more valuable and rare stamps, they will not increase in value much.
That's why I collect, just for the sake of collecting and for fun.

I did a dozen years of collecting before I finished Univ and all my pocketmoney went into stamps instead of boozing it up like my contemporaries did
Lucky for me my wife started working long before me and she bought a 20 F Napoleon every time she had the 1965 price of those .
Then I had to do the compulsory 12 months of army duty getting like half a euro per day 20 paper franks that is  as "salary" I got married before the army
and my wife got like 40 euro per month in compensation  One year of my life down the drain but I learned to shut up in the face of authority and to lie straithfaced and to get even every chance I got
 

[Muckeye]

Touche'  from one ex-serviceman to another.
I understand your feelings.
regards,

[Paint Your Wagon]

Well I had a nice sunday I got two coins below melt and now I can watch again Cat Ballou with Lee Marvin