> JF>Is anyone a stamp collector?
 > I do, but I don't really stay up to date with it anymore.  I lost
 > interest in the hobby when I had chance to buy a book of old stamps for
 > $600 and there was one item in there worth $3200, and I didn'y have the
 > $600 available.
    Find a dealer interested in the $3200 item for $2000.  Get advance from 
dealer.  Purchase collection and turn single item over to dealer.  Keep $1400 
and balance of collection.
    Not necessarily a great way to build your -own- collection, but depending 
of the balance of the items, and looking at the profit of $1400.....
    But then, if the book was a special deal from a friend, all bets are off. 
Even I, cheapskate that I am, wouldn't do that to a friend.  After all, they 
could take it to the dealer and keep the WHOLE $2000 themselves.  
     Robert O. Sachs
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