I don't know how the situation is on your latitude, albeit I try to keep informed by reading Stamp News at the Helsinki postal library, but I see how blocks are treated up here: ripped apart to escavate one or two or three MNH stamps that the dealers can auction off to somebody with bigger wallet than brains.GlenStephens wrote: And I know in 10 years time, which one I'd rather be betting on to get the higher price.
Hundreds more perfect centred 6c Columbus stamps must exist out there, but I bet no other blocks like this NWPI do.
The last Germeten auction in Oslo, Norway, for instance, had 95% of mint blocks auctioned off to two dealers. Come July or October, we are sure to find them split into singles at two of the other leading local auction companies.
How is the common dealer practice in Australia regarding blocks? Do collectors still collect them, or are they left to twerps who think only of money and nothing of the beauty and importance of mint units?
(And yes, I see that Glen offers them as blocks, so no need to mention that, but he also thinks they are bargains, which to me would indicate low demand).