Scott Album Junior

i would like to know the difference between the real scott album and the junior

is the 1969 edition is a junior ?

There is no difference.They just changed the name .Over the years as the price for the albums kept going higher ,it became too expense to call it a junior,they really made a mess of it and drove collectors nuts because they refuse to make corrected pages ,but if anybody else want to make more senseable order of the pages which was their baby ,you would get a letter inviting you to a lawsuit .

thank a lot for this information ,it realy help me out to understand cause I bought a vol 2 that was writen (formuly junior) and I was confuse . thank again

Claupe, to elaborate a bit on what floortrader posted, the International which began in the 19th century was originally intended to include all major number stamps found in the Scott catalog. Because such a comprehensive approach was overwhelming to beginning collectors, Scott created a simplified album in 1913 called the International Junior. When Scott discontinued the comprehensive albums (referred to today as the "Brown" albums) in the early 1940s, it kept publishing the simplified versions, eventually (1947ish) dropping the Junior designation from the title. The Volume 2 you have was never in the original (Brown) series.

is the junior album 1840-1940 is the same as the scott vol 1?

Claupe, yes and no. OK, that wasn't very helpful, was it?! What was sold in the 1940s as the Junior International Volume 1 is essentially what Scott/Amos sells today as the International Volume 1 (in 4 parts). I say "essentially" because Scott has made changes in the Volume 1 over the years and what is sold today has had many of its pages rearranged to better interface with later volumes and is printed on better paper. However, the latest version has spaces for several hundred fewer stamps than the 1943/47 editions.

i could buy a 1941 copyright (junior) ,so it is about the same as the vol 1 except the price ?
thank o lot I understand it better

Hi Claupe, that is the problem we all face. You can buy a used International Volume 1 for a fraction of the price that you would pay for the new 4 part Volume 1. If I were going to be collecting for many decades and knew that I would stay with the Volume 1 (as opposed to the Brown Internationals or Steiner pages), I would go with the new product. You'll get acid free, heavy stock that should last your entire collecting career. You will get all countries starting on the front of the page, not some on the back and some intermixed. You'll get an album that you can easily combine with later Internationals (i.e., 1940-1949, etc.). And, something that cannot overestimated, the countries will be in alphabetical order! The downside, besides the price, is the latest version omits hundreds of stamps and even entire countries found in the most complete versions from the 1940s. I currently have 19,000 or so stamps in a 1969 edition and I have considered switching to the latest edition, but can't face remounting 19,000 stamps!

Hope that helps. Let us all know what you decide to do.

yes but it is a big difference in pricing