Bulk stamp collections are usually what are termed schoolboy collections which are usually rows and rows of stamps possibly sorted by country but with little other organisation, or philatelic collections which are well presented, orderly, often annotated, in issue date order with gaps for missing items and well spaced out.
Sight of one page of an album is usually enough to classify it.
Schoolboy collections fetch very little, although very old ones have more potential but large numbers of 20th C material are rarely worth looking through.
The philatelic collections may have valuable items that the collector paid well for, so they are worth examining in more detail, looking for high face value stamps and well known rarities in each country series.
The schoolboy market, where quantity was more important than quality seems to have died out and philately in general declined but there is still a market for better material
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