Nick's Notes

[Rheged]

Thanks for your support.

The skip is full. All the big stuff is gone. The rest I can deal with in the next month. Mostly stuff to go to charity and his family.

Place needs a good deep clean but we may hire a firm for that.

While going through his old travel insurance Mum found £100 in old £20 notes! It was his emergency cash for a holiday in 2009. Took that to the bank to cover my petrol bill 
We also found £2 in Premium Bonds, Green Shield stamps, and Saver Stamps 

There are some First Day Covers of postage stamps from 1977 to 1986. Anybody know about these?

Try an antique/bygones shop for the trading stamps;  they may offer you a few pounds for them............or donate to a charity as they may be able to benefit.

[Charlie_c67]

There are some First Day Covers of postage stamps from 1977 to 1986. Anybody know about these?

Stanley Gibbons is a good source of info, but they will suggest local stamp dealers first. First day covers are a bit hit and miss, '77 - '86 are probably worth a little less than older ones as numbers produced are higher but you never know!

[zenrat]

Postage stamps are usually only worth their face value.
One exception being a few rare examples.  Special presentation packs or first day covers may be another.
Working in the Post Office we regularly get asked about this.  People inheriting a collection often assume that because their dead relative put a significant amount of time into it then it must be valuable.  Unfortunately not.
If they are denominated in the currently used currency (Dollars not Pounds here, and Pounds and Pence not LSD in the UK) then they are legal tender and can be used to post letters and parcels.  This is what we recommend people do with them and every so often we see a parcel where it is apparent someone is doing this because of the random selection of stamps.

Of course you can't even do that with FDCs as they have already been used and cancelled.

[Nick]

Some of the FDC envelopes are worth a little more than the others but overall not a lot going by internet prices. I might stick them on Ebay as a job lot and hope for £10. This sort of thing but with 12+ letters https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/317319624268

Also going on Ebay:

Senior Service metal ashtrays, rolls of lurid 1970s wallpaper, Green shield stamp book, a box and a half of Izal toilet paper, a 1950s metal garden sprinkler, vintage 60s garden umbrella... but no cuddly toy!

[Charlie_c67]

... a box and a half of Izal toilet paper...

Does that stuff still exist? More to the point, do people still bye it?! Brings a (painful) tear to the eye just thinking about having to use it at my Grandparents...

[zenrat]

... a box and a half of Izal toilet paper...

Does that stuff still exist? More to the point, do people still bye it?! Brings a (painful) tear to the eye just thinking about having to use it at my Grandparents...

I grew up wiping with that stuff.      

[NARSES2]

... a box and a half of Izal toilet paper...

Does that stuff still exist? More to the point, do people still bye it?! Brings a (painful) tear to the eye just thinking about having to use it at my Grandparents...

I grew up wiping with that stuff.      

Grandparents had it in their outside bogs and we had it in the school loos    Some of the kids at school saw it as a luxury as they still used newspaper at home. Bred us tough in the 50's 

[Rheged]

Izal  was still in school toilets in the 1970's.  Some pupils used it as a substitute for tracing paper.

See also the name of the agent at the end of this backstory   https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=53707.msg1070466#msg1070466  which no one commented on at the time.

[Captain Canada]

Sorry I missed out on all this Nick. I'm well caught up now ! For sure, good on your and you Mum for all that you have done for Jon, both before and after his passing. It's amazing how many of us share similar stories, especially the one of 'family' showing up to late and being aghast at the state of their 'loved' ones ! Can't visit them at home, or hospital, but as soon as they find out they are in hospice or end of life care, they find time to converge on the empty house and start helping themselves.

[Nick]

[NARSES2]

Green Shield Stamps and the shops they had where you could use them- memories 

[Charlie_c67]

Green Shield Stamps and the shops they had where you could use them- memories 

And the top one more painful ones

[Rick Lowe]

Green Shield Stamps and the shops they had where you could use them- memories 

And the top one more painful ones

Brings back all the trauma from Primary School... 

[McColm]

Green Shield Stamps and the shops they had where you could use them- memories 

And the top one more painful ones

Brings back all the trauma from Primary School... 

There was loads of stuff that you could get with a couple of books of greenshield stamps

[PR19_Kit]

There was loads of stuff that you could get with a couple of books of greenshield stamps

I got quite a lot of stuff from them when I was first married, probably before most of you lot were even born! 

Pressed Steel didn't ask for the Green Shield stamps that we got when filling up the cars on test drives. And THEY paid for the fuel eventually.