Scott International Album Printing Errors

Well, I'm not sure if its all albums of these copywrites or just mine.

I've been finding printing errors in Scott Albums.

like Scott's Vol II B (Copyright 1979) (Russia page 1941-1943)same page printed on both sides of page and thus missing the backside of second page of 1941-1943.

My VOL I (copyright 1955) missing the White Russia on the bottom of the Western Ukrainia page.

ALSO
The printing quality of the 1979 copyright is far worse then the 1953 copyright. the 1953 copyright is much crisper darker black on white images of stamps, vs the poorer 1979 hazy images.

Just me?
any other finds?

While this was in earlier editions, it was later dropped by Scott when it was determined the stamps were invalid according to their standards. If you have a catalog, see what Scott says about these issues.

I can confirm your lack of White Russia - I have the same 1955 SI. Although Modern_Who pretty much explained that one.


I have the single volume #2 Scott International and It is printed correctly in my edition (1953) for the Russion page 1941-1943) and the back.

I agree that the quality of reproduction did deteriorate in the Scott Volume 1 at least, in the 1970s and beyond. This is apparent even with the current version. Take a look at how "muddy" Bavaria Scott #92 and 93 look. On the other hand, the current edition is printed on much better paper and has several other virtues that trump the image quality of the cuts.

Countries come and go depending upon the vintage of the International. For Volume 1, here are countries that were in the 1943/47 edition but disappeared in various later editions, most notably when Scott initially split Volume 1 into two parts in the 1970s. Some of these countries have been reinstated in the latest version of the album, but not all!

Anjouan
Baden
Benin
Bergedorf
Bremen
Brunswick
Carinthia
China Offices Abroad
Cilicia
Cochin China
Colombia - mssing several of the States
Corfu
Dalmatia
Eastern Rumelia
Eastern Silesia
Moheli
Obock
Rio de Oro
South Russia
Tobago

White Russia is unique in that it isn't anywhere in the catalog, including the index. However, there are countries that used to have their own entries and have since been subsumed. For example, the Carinthia Plebiscite of Austria. In the album, Carinthia has its own pages. In the Scott Classics Catalogue, it is split between Austria B11-B29 and Yugoslavia 4LB1-6.

Not surprisingly, there are a number of individual stamps and sets that have been dropped from the catalog but are still in the album. Fortunately, all of these I've found so far are still readily available. Scott frequently prices these even if they no longer have catalog numbers.

I haven't found that kind of error, but I have found more than a couple misnumbered stamps in my Germany album.

Thanks Bob, I had hopes you would see this post about the Scott Internationals as I knew you had some in-depth knowledge of the subject.

I agree the paper quality is much better (thicker) and they adjusted the blank space at country and type ends to usually give you 1/2 to a full blank side of a page for extras instead of starting another section of stamps immediately after. Thus I've seen Amble extra space in the 1979+ copyright versions. however I'm not a big fan of the degraded almost grey fuzzy images, the 1953 had such crisp black on white clear images.

so for me older is still better I'm stripping clean my 1979 versions and adding them to my 1950's versions althought I'll miss the paper quality, for now it suits me until later in life I can afford NEW off the shelf versions. maybe they will have the printing fixed by then?


has anyone ordered a NEW Scotts in the past year? wondering what their printing image quality is these days.

I bought the first part of four right after Scott brought Volume 1 back into print. Although this was somewhat more than a year ago, I doubt that the latest reprints would look any different since their "on demand" printing process to my knowledge hasn't changed. The cuts definitely look muddier than the pre-1970s editions (reminds me of a good quality Xerox) but I completely agree with your points about the extra space. I wish I could convince myself to remount my collection which is housed in a 1969 edition into the four-part version. I know ten years from now I'll find myself mumbling to myself "If only I had done the remounting when the album was still half empty." Oh well, live and never learn!

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I just combined my Vol 5 and 5A, I had 68 duplicate pages between the two sections I was able to remove, mostly reformatted pages with the newer stamps spaces added to the original page. I didn't have a title page for one so I don't know the disparity in copyright dates.

I also pulled out 70 Scott's blank pages with very light graph paper markings so you can mount extras straight. that will come in handy.

once it was properly thinned the entire collection on the older thinner paper (pre 1979 paper) fit in one 4 Inch binder with enough room to start a collection, however any decent number of stamps will cause a need for 2 binders again.

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