What is the value of liberty 3c stamp?

Answer 1

This is a very very common US regular stamp. It really has no market value, except for postage, if unused. Anyone who collects stamps will find he has dozens of them.

Let me explain, at risk of boring you, a little about the stamp market:

Common stamps are usually sold in packets, or collections or stamps, not one at a time, and this

is the way you want to buy them if you are a collector. In these packets, you have no choice as to exactly

what you will get.

For example a packet may be advertised as 500 different US for $5.00 or $400 different US commemoratives

for $7.50.or $50 face value US for $45.

After you have bought a number of packets, you will find that you have duplicates of some stamps but lack other,

equally common stamps. If you know other collectors, you can make trades. But if you can not get all

the stamps you want by trading, or by buying more packets, you can order individual stamps from dealers,

and there is a "Standard Postage Stamp Catalog" which lists typical dealer's prices ( inflated somewhat)

for stamps ordered individually. The minimum price is 20 cents and mint stamps are listed at about twice face

( if that, is over 20 cents).

So, in some sense, every stamp is "worth" 20 cents, but unless you are a retail dealer, you will never be

able to sell your stamp for that much and even a retail dealer does not sell very many common stamps

for that amount.

Dealers buy common stamps as part of large collections and accumulations. When a long time collectors

decides to sell ( or his heirs sell), he usually has ( or leaves) thousands of common stamps as well as his

main collection.Dealers buy the whole thing, but really only pay for the good stamps -- the 20 cents they get

from such are mostly a labor charge for finding the stamp you want.