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Message:: [QUOTE="NYandW, post: 3619834, member: 76139"]Robert L  Miller is correct: Stuff before 1920 can be really expensive. most items "created after" are more like souvenirs produced with common everyday stamp issues on "pretty" 3rd party cachets. Yes, A first day of early stamps, Zeppelins, for example, have nice/great value, but mass produced USPS items have little to no value. Go into any local stamp shop and view the FDC material they can't give away, for example.  Try to sell the material listed in the Brookman catalog to a dealer or even on Ebay at the retail prices list and good luck.  Here's an example: My LIRR train history and stamps cover material. Of, perhaps, great historical interest, but the value on the material is nil... None of the items have rare stamps, OR of first days of 19th century material (the Holy Grail, as no one cared and saved stamped envelopes)...<a href="http://www.trainsarefun.com/trainsandstamps/trainsandstamps.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.trainsarefun.com/trainsandstamps/trainsandstamps.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.trainsarefun.com/trainsandstamps/trainsandstamps.htm</a>[/QUOTE]