How much can you sell a blue chip stamp to a collector. Blue chip stamps are not postage stamps and are sold as collectibles as opposed to being sold to stamp collectors. After a legal tussle, the founders of blue chip were forced to offer these merchants an ownership stake in the company based on their stamp. A quick scan of ebay reveals books of stamps and individual. Blue chip stamps was a loyalty program for customers, similar to discount cards issued by pharmacies and grocery stores in the digital era. Between 1965 and 2018, berkshire grew its book value by an. I got to thinking about the word redeem one day, and wondered if it had any correlation to the word redeem that what we see on a coupon. Hey i was wondering if anybody that knows about stamps can help me out and tell me how much is a blue chip stamp worth nowadays it says cash value 1mill. The stamp book is in good condition and filled with small stamps. These earnings figures are a little higher than blue chip stamps share of sees earnings shown in the table above because blue chip s share reflects i deduction of the approximately 1% share of sees earnings owned by minority stockholders of sees prior to june 6, 1978. They are almost never sold in singles, but if they were, the value would be about five cents each. Mt june 18, 2015 rodins the thinker for clay thompsons column. All the postage stamps are in books never opend, all are collectables waltdisney,some presidents,etc.
You took the stamps home and stuck them in a book, many pages long. The requirement that the stamps be affixed in books not only gave the. It looks like a book took 1200 stamps each page held 50 stamps and one whole book was 24 pages based on the 1970s blue chip stamp book i saw. Our main customers now are bowling centers, where stamps are given out as promotions. The value of blue chip stamps varies depending on the year of the stamp and its design.
Boxed chocolate consumption per capita in the united. Blue chip stamps were collected by children and adults alike in the 1970s and then redeemed via the blue chip stamp catalog. This vintage trading stamp book with the chipmunk on the cover is rare. Blue chip stamps were a loyalty program for customers, similar to discount cards issued by pharmacies and grocery stores in the digital era. They realize that a reward of value is the most sincere means of showing their gratitude. Charlie munger blue chip stamps annual letters 1977 1982. Before we got reward tags on our keychains scanned and got our credit card points, we filled small books with stamps we got from purchases at local stores and took the full books to a local. Vintage blue chip savings book for both regular and superten stamps. Postal service and its reward catalog was the largest publication in the country. Market values of blue chip stamps equity holdings are given in footnote 3 on page 18. Blue chip stamps and to dismiss the class action portion of the case.
Large collection vintage blue chip savings books with stamps 196070s. This saver book is in excellent condition on interior pages, while the front and back covers have wear, no tears, or breaks. A customer making a purchase at a participating store typically grocery stores, gasoline stations, and pharmacy chains would be given stamps in proportion to the dollar amount of the purchase. This is all i could find about how much you had to spend for each stamp and it seems based around 195060s so its probably roughly correct. They are an interesting curiosity but frankly not worth much. For example, classic us stamps have a high demand from the stamp investors for perfectly centered and completely faultless stamps which drives stamp collecting values up. And there are further supply and demand factors at work affecting ranges of stamp collecting values for unique copies of the same stamp. Big m gift stamps, blue chip stamps, buccaneer stamps, bonus stamps, discount stamp company, doublem stamps, frontier stamps, gift bonds, gift house stamps, merchant green trading stamps, quality stamps, big w stamps, world green stamps, and yellow trading stamps are just a. Blue chip stamp book filled with small stamps ebay.
A customer making a purchase at a participating store typically grocery stores, gasoline stations, and pharmacy chains would be given stamps in. There was a catalog from which you could buy things with your stamps. These important metrics for every stock on this list should give you a clear representation on which ones to pick. The companys name was changed to blue chip stamps in 1967 when the chipmunk cover was first introduced. Blue chip sells trading stamps to merchants who in turn distribute them to customers. Blue chip has cut its overhead and hiked the value of those stamps. Naturally, the merchants that issued blue chip stamps wanted in on the profit stream. The most common blue chip stamps material is metal. These earnings figures are a little higher than blue chip stamps share of sees earnings shown in the table above because blue chip s share reflects i deduction of the approximately 1% share of sees earnings owned by minority stockholders of sees prior to june, 1978, ii amortization of intangibles arising from purchase of sees stock at a large permium over book value, and iii state. The books of stamps could be swapped for toasters, kettles, tables, etc. Vintage 1956 top value stamps redemption store catalog. But keep track of these stocks to buy, and be ready to pounce on a pullback. Cash flow, annual dividend yield, book value of the stock etc.
Blue chip stamps the east area rapist ear original. Top 30 canadian blue chip stocks you should own in 2020. Vintage blue chip stamp savings book full of super10 stamps 5 per pg120 total. Original sales signs for blue chip are worth far more than the stamps and booklets. Gift house, triples, plaid stamps, king korn, blue chip, top value and many others. I remember helping mom put them in the books sometimes. Blue chip stamps were a loyalty program for customers, similar to discount cards. I think we got most of our household decoration from the blue chip stamp redemption center. A customer making a purchase at a participating store typically grocery stores, gasoline stations, and pharmacy chains would be given stamps in proportion to the size of the purchase. The undersigned states that i he has executed this form n8f application for an order under section 8f of the investment company act of 1940 on behalf of the blue chip value fund, inc. Lets take a look at the top 30 canadian blue chip stocks a blue chip stock is the stock of a large, wellestablished and financially sound company. I remember my mother collecting green shield stamps here in the uk in california there was blue chip stamps.
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