Robert Murray Stamp Shop, Edinburgh
KILOWARE
 

"Retirement Sale" big mixes.    STILL AVAILABLE in shop and mail order
We've got big stocks of this stuff so we've decided to make up some special clearance batches. Our stock of these is of way over a million stamps so we'd be happy for you to buy a few thousand !
Each lot will be 500g of world off-paper, plus 200g of UK off-paper, and we'll also chuck in a few odd "freebies" with each batch. (If you buy a repeat lot we'll try not to repeat the same free items. Therefore if you are making a repeat order please tell us when you bought your previous one, or quote the letter on the packet.)
There will definitely be duplication among the thousands of stamps you get, and please allow for there being some damaged here and there. (There might even be an odd stamp on-paper, etc. There is so much stuff we can't possibly check each one.)
Give one a go !
£40.
Net price.

     

At the end of 2024 we had a big sell-off of kiloware and ended up with empty shelves.
Since then, as we tidy and clear areas of the shop, we have found some further stock, and we also had one big wholesale order which took some time to organise but eventually failed. There will therefore be some kiloware available when we next have some shop open days (probably September/October 2026). SO PLEASE WATCH THIS PAGE FOR UPDATES.

"KILOWARE" - stamps sold by weight, normally still on the backing paper as they've been cut or torn from envelopes.


Weights are average net contents.


A NOTE REGARDING THE PRESENT STATE OF KILOWARE;
Things have changed in recent years. Going back a decade or two, most of the stamps charities were given would be from current or recent mail, but they would always have some that people had from clearing out an old house, or going through old family papers. They might therefore have gathered in a year, say, 19kg of generally new mix plus 1kg of older, so the mix looked like new stuff and was a good source of recent stamps.
The current situation is that people actually get very few stamps in the mail. Charities get smaller amounts handed in (although prices are much better than they were some years ago). So the same charity might now be getting only 2kg of new mix, but they are still getting the 1kg of older stamps, and the mixture appears less appealing to the collector looking for newer issues.
Almost everything we got in the last few years was like that, with a fair number of older stamps included, and I'm afraid collectors will just have to get used to it !
WHAT'S HAPPENING IN OUR CURRENT STATE OF WINDING DOWN THE RETAIL SHOP ?;
We have had much less material coming in, although for a while we continued to get new material from some of our regular charities.
However, while going through all our stock we've been finding odd bags, packets, and boxes of kiloware here and there, which is all being gathered together so that we can make some final offerings.
Quantities are very varied - there are some categories where we'll only have one bag available, yet others where we'll have hundreds.
WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT KILOWARE IN GENERAL ?
Read our article about kiloware - we're biased but think this is probably the best general explanation online !

ILLUSTRATIONS;
We've added photographs for some of the types. These have been done in good faith. Of course you're not going to get exactly the same mix as shown. What you buy from us you may see as better or worse that our examples.
When taking the photos, the only thing we have done to make them look better was to turn over stamps which were face-down.


"Retirement Sale" big mixes.    STILL AVAILABLE in shop and mail order
We've got big stocks of this stuff so we've decided to make up some special clearance batches. Our stock of these is of way over a million stamps so we'd be happy for you to buy a few thousand !
Each lot will be 500g of world off-paper, plus 200g of UK off-paper, and we'll also chuck in a few odd "freebies" with each batch. (If you buy a repeat lot we'll try not to repeat the same free items. Therefore if you are making a repeat order please tell us when you bought your previous one, or quote the letter on the packet.)
There will definitely be duplication among the thousands of stamps you get, and please allow for there being some damaged here and there. (There might even be an odd stamp on-paper, etc. There is so much stuff we can't possibly check each one.)
Give one a go !
£40.
Net price.



         
Some of the following are only available in very small numbers (some we've got loads !).

Code
Country
Weight * per bag Price
per bag
Oz-off

Australia. Off-paper mix made up at random from loose stock. Good variety, but every packet will have duplication (sometimes to excess). Average 20g packet contains perhaps about 350 stamps. Last few bags of 20g, then we'll stop making up stock in this size. Larger bags will remain available.        SOLD OUT            SOLD OUT Off-paper
20g
100g
£4.
£20.
Can-1

Canada. Mixed ages. A decent mix though always including some very common.    SOLD OUT            SOLD OUT On-paper 120g £4.25
Can-2
Canada stamps on paper
Canada. A last-minute find of a big carton of kiloware from about the 1970s and 1980s (some 1990s seen). There's about 25kg of stamps, with moderate/wide margins of envelope paper. We're selling it by the kilo, with the option at any time for someone to buy all our remaining stock at a discount rate. (Therefore, if we've sold five 1kg bags you can buy the remaining 20kg for £200.)      SOLD OUT            SOLD OUT

On-paper
1kg
or
The lot at
£18.

£10. per kilo
SL
         SOLD OUT            SOLD OUT Ceylon/Sri Lanka.          SOLD OUT            SOLD OUT On-paper 50g £7.50 now reduced
to £3.75
Dk-off
         SOLD OUT            SOLD OUT Denmark. Off-paper mix made up at random from loose stock. Good variety, but every packet will have duplication (sometimes to excess). Average 20g packet contains perhaps about 350 stamps. Last few bags of 20g, then we'll stop making up stock in this size. Larger bags will remain available.       SOLD OUT            SOLD OUT Off-paper 20g
100g
£4.
£20.
Fra-1
         SOLD OUT            SOLD OUT France. Mainly collected in France, plus some collected in UK, occasionally a few from other countries.          SOLD OUT            SOLD OUT On-paper 100g £4.25
Fra-2
         SOLD OUT            SOLD OUT France. Some of the mix listed above, and a scattering of more recent material.        SOLD OUT            SOLD OUT On-paper
100g
£4.50
Ger
Germany stamps on paper
Germany. Collected by a charity in Leipzig over a number of months leading up to mid-2008. Very high proportion of modern Germany, with some older, and often a reasonable scattering of other countries. Occasional excess paper.
Last few bags of 100g, then we'll stop making up stock in this size. Larger bags will remain available.
      SOLD OUT            SOLD OUT
On-paper 100g
1kg
5kg
£2.50
£17.50
£75.
Leipzig
Plus
          SOLD OUT            SOLD OUT Germany "Leipzig Plus" Mix. A 1kg bag which is about 50% from the mix described above, and about 50% from other sources older and newer.      SOLD OUT            SOLD OUT On-paper
1kg
£17.50
HK-1
         SOLD OUT            SOLD OUT Hong Kong. Large proportion from about mid/late 1990s.
SOLD OUT            SOLD OUT
Not Sold Out !! . . . we'd forgotten we had two bags in the shop window.
On-paper 100g
£4.75
HK-2
         SOLD OUT            SOLD OUT Hong Kong. Bags made up of roughly 80% of the above mix and 20% of newer material. Limited stocks.           SOLD OUT            SOLD OUT On-paper
100g
£5.25
EI

Ireland. General mixture - range of recent years with a scattering of older now and again. Last few bags of 100g, then we'll stop making up stock in this size. Larger bags will remain available.
       SOLD OUT            SOLD OUT
On-paper 100g
500g
1kg
£3.25
£15.
£28.50
EI-off

Ireland. Off-paper mix made up at random from loose stock. Good variety, but every packet will have duplication (sometimes to excess). Average 20g packet contains perhaps about 350 stamps. Last few bags of 20g, then we'll stop making up stock in this size. Larger bags will remain available.
       SOLD OUT            SOLD OUT
Off-paper
20g
100g
£4.
£20.
NZ
         SOLD OUT            SOLD OUT New Zealand. Mixed ages. Limited stocks.      SOLD OUT            SOLD OUT On-paper 110g
£4.95
Scand
Video on Facebook at this link. Scandinavia (most of Denmark, fewer of Norway and Sweden - seldom Finland, and only rarely will there be Aland, Faroes, Greenland or Iceland). Last few bags of 150g, then we'll stop making up stock in this size. Larger bags will remain available.
See our wee video on our Facebook page at this link.        SOLD OUT            SOLD OUT
On-paper 150g
500g
£5.75
£17.75
SAf-1
          SOLD OUT            SOLD OUT South Africa. General mix, some years old.     SOLD OUT            SOLD OUT On-paper 100g
£3.50
SAf-2
         SOLD OUT            SOLD OUT South Africa. Old to new mix, with a scattering of S.W.A.      SOLD OUT            SOLD OUT On-paper
100g
£4.25
CH-1          SOLD OUT            SOLD OUT Switzerland. Mainly 1960s mix with many commemoratives.  SOLD OUT            SOLD OUT On-paper 120g £4.75
CH-2
         SOLD OUT            SOLD OUT Switzerland. Some of the above "1960s mix" and some newer material.  SOLD OUT            SOLD OUT On-paper
120g
£5.25
USA

United States of America. Mixed ages. Some collected in the USA, some in the UK. Last few bags of 120g, then we'll stop making up stock in this size. Larger bags will remain available.
       SOLD OUT            SOLD OUT
On-paper 120g
1kg
5kg
£3.75
£32.50
£150.

US-off
         SOLD OUT            SOLD OUT United States of America. Off-paper mix made up at random from loose stock. Good variety, but every packet will have duplication (sometimes to excess). Average 50g packet contains perhaps about 700 to 1,000 stamps.         SOLD OUT            SOLD OUT Off-paper
500g
£25.
US-cheap
         SOLD OUT            SOLD OUT United States of America. "Dead cheap". Used off-paper stamps which came to us in packets supposedly with 1,000 stamps per packet. Quite modern, and highly duplicated.           SOLD OUT            SOLD OUT Off-paper
Per packet
£1. only
Zim Zimbabwe kiloware
Zimbabwe. This is a mix all from about the same period, collected around 1995-2000, usually on thicker paper. Last few bags of 100g, then we'll stop making up stock in this size. Larger bags will remain available.
       SOLD OUT            SOLD OUT
On-paper 100g
500g
1kg
£4.75
£21.75
£39.




COINS - see full list of wholesale coins at www.stamp-shop.com/coins-wholesale.html


UK Halfpennies
Pre-decimal halfpennies, mainly KG5 to QE. Subject to stock - please check before coming in. 900g
9kg
£6.75
£60.


Remember, postage and handling are charged on top of these prices if they are to be sent out. See our "How to Order" page for details.
* Weights are approximate but honest ! 



Last updated Thursday 6 August 2026. Copyright Robert Murray 1999-2026.

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