How Many Albums Do You Have -- 2011

Whoah there!




I never said all.

I was too low by about 10 on my amount of albums...i have 3 Netherlands albums and 4 Netherlands cover albums, 1 Guatemala album and 6 cover and postcard albums of Guatemala... 1 U.S. album and 4 U.S. Cover albums,, 2 Canada albums, 2 Argentina albums and still only 1 Argentine cover album but its filling fast...9 Scott International albums to 1969...2 U.S. Precancel albums...we are not talking red boxes of duplicates here or computer paper boxes and plastic totes full of stamps...i wish I could let go..but I have that feeling that I paid SOMETHING for them and hate to toss them..when I find the right collectors we can gnaw away at them !

Ok to start I have 3 stockbooks 16 pages
- 2 Minkus Europa albums that finish in 1978
- 4 binders of Europa pages till 2005 that I made using Albumeasy
- 1 binder of self made pages for my Expo 67, tall ships and paintings collections
- 1 Lindner Greenland album till 1998 + 1 binder of self made pages to complete
- 1 Schaubek Poland album till 1979 (just for souvenir sheets) + 4 binders of pages for stamps that I printed
- 1 Greenland binder of pages that I print
- 1 First day cover album for tall ships
- And almost forgot a small stockbook fill with Brazil stamps
- I also have 2 Canada albums and Worldwide album respectively from the 70's and 60's that I have not used for 25 years.

Once in while I sell a collection because I don't want to accumulate till i'm a very old. I remember an advertising telling the story of a man who bought stamps all his life and now after filling a whole warehouse he decide to sell. The man is about 85 years old. If I don't buy for or look at a collection for months it's a good candidate to go for sale.

Picture is worth 1000 words.

76 binders of various sizes for worldwide (mostly homemade pages)
3 Harris Albums Canada
2 Binders & 1 stock book Canada '67 Definitives
4 Stanley Gibbons albums: Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain and Switzerland
2 Minkus: Austria and Scandinavia
4 stock books for Omnibus Issues
1 Stock Book for Canadian perfins
1 Stock Book for Canadian precancels
12 Albums for Canadian FDCs from 1973 on. Misc. covers elsewhere.
1 trunk (this is my elsewhere) containing mostly supplies but other stuff as well.

And then there was the young grandson who asked, "Gee grandpa. How much have you spent on all these stamps?"
Grandpa replied, "It must be thousands by now."
"Gosh," was the response. "How much are they worth now?"
After some thought, Grandpa replied, "Why, by now they must be worth ... Hundreds!"

7 stockbooks

As for now. 5 large stock books and 3 small stock books. Still have tons of stuff to go through though.

Darn it I forgot the Austria,Germany,Switzerland French Africa albums..that would put me around 40 albums...

Smauggie






Lost the one that bid the more often on my auctions.

There, there Daniel.

It will be temporary. Besides, I see Rod has taken my place as first bidder in your latest auction (and a tempting one it is).

Besides, I am also in the process of moving, which will through throw my philatelic habits out of whack for a while.

10-4 Smauggie

OK, let's count:

5 Germany/Berlin - Large Green Specialty Binders in Slip Covers
4 United States - Large Green Specialty Binders in Slip Covers
2 Israel - Large Green Specialty Binders in Slip Covers
1 Pitcairn Islands - Large Green Specialty Binders in Slip Covers
1 Falkland Islands - Large Green Specialty Binders in Slip Covers
4 3" Notebook Binders with APS (free) mini-collection pages
4 Mint Sheet Stockbooks for sheets and Over-sized SSheets and Booklets
20 or so 14" 104 Storage boxes for all my duplicates.

Oh - and my collection/accumulation still isn't worth as much as "the guy" with a 5" x 9" pocket stockbook with 27 stamps worth a total of $1,000,000+.

We're talking about Bobgggg, of course.

Albums ... 5 of Spain, 1 of Spain airmail covers, 2 USA, 1 Germany, 1 Painting stamps .... and Boxes many BOXES, boxes for all sides ( My wife hates me for it )je, je, je.

I just stumbled upon this thread (plus the older one) and really enjoyed reading everyone's posts. As for me I have the following:

5x Red Binders of Vario Plus pages for my South Korea collection
4x White Ace Albums for my U.S. Commemorative singles and plate blocks
3x Brown Binders of Vario Plus pages for my British Commonwealth collection
2x Blue Binders of Vario Plus pages for my U.S. sheet collection
2x Lighthouse stockbooks for my U.S. Precancels
1x Album for my U.S. Bureau Precancel collection

Sometime in November I intend on ordering the Scott Specialty Album kit for South Korea and will do an overhaul moving my collection from vario pages over to mounts on album pages. With the vacant red binders with vario plus pages I'll probably start a new country or region collection. I'm tempted to start on something South America or Africa related...not sure. If anyone has any suggestions please let me know.

So that's the current state of my collection...

Hehe, I think my count has doubled. I really did follow through (somewhat) on my pledge of getting them in the album.