Where Is Your Collection Most Complete?

I have a complete FSAT from stamp #1 to 2010 and Almost complete Vatican and completed BAT from 1 to 2010 and several others. It is a real sense of accomplishment I must admit.
Nick

Most of my collection is USA stamps. I started with singles in my US stamp book. I have most commemoratives filled in. Then I got to loving revenue stamps, coils, joint line pairs, pre-cancels, errors,cut squares, different shades of the same stamp, different post marks....ect,ect,ect. If I can find a reason to place a stamp in one of many of many of my books ,i do it and tickled to do so. Now I have started to collect postal history items, WOW .I do enjoy that too. Each item tells a little story. My collection that is most complete is commemoratives from 1930-1985.

Great topic, and some great 'worldwide' answers.

But the thread is for USA stamps only and so is a bit confusing.

This is not the first time this has happened, indeed there are many examples. For such threads with possible multiple answers, the subject would be best served in the Main Collecting area.

Londonbus1

I will add one more collection I have. U.S.A..
Presidential Inauguration Day Covers, from Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States to
Barack H. Obama, 44th President of the United States.

My collection is most complete on my dining room table. The boxes in the basement are all scattered and disorganized. :-)

Thanks everyone! Glad I struck a topic that got everyone chatting. I'm sticking to a budget of $50 a week to work at my U.S. collection. I should be able to hammer away slowly but surely. Some stamps, as some of you have pointed out, are high-hanging fruit that just won't make it into my collection.

Thanks all! Just passed 50 posts! Woo-Hoo!

Cardinal Bass

Cardinal--

Congrats to 50!

I used to fill holes. I'm complete, mint from the end of the Wash/Franks until about the 18 centers or so. No White Plains sheet, no #594, 596, 613 (may never see one of those in my lifetime), no mint 573 or 834. I just don't really collect this stuff anymore, so I doubt if I'll ever want to buy the mint $5 stamps.

Never been interested in the Zepps or the BOB, but I LOVE the revenues!

Not sure I'm in agreement with your statement that a lot of the older stamps aren't findable at $50/week. I think someone said earlier in the string that "the fun is in the hunt", and I couldn't agree more.

My mission is to learn as much as I can about the older issues, and I'm a "certified bottom feeder"! I love to go through boxes of covers at stamp shows, and I'm always on the hunt for something I don't have, that is out there.

For example-- I may or may not ever buy a pigeon blood pink 64a. I have a bunch of years left to find one. I'm trying to develop an eye for the colors, and you just never know.

I'm getting very complete on my 2c red Washington Franklin stamps. There are a couple that are not practical to ever own-- an imperf Type 1a (482A) is one of the great rarities. 388 are almost all fakes. 539 is out of my price range. But I look at every imperf I see, just in case... I have several of the very difficult 2c reds, which aren't in most collections-- 358, 449, 459, 461, 491, 500, 519 and 534B. Certs on 449, 461, 491 and 519. I'm proudest of the 500's (I have 2), because I found them in a box of 10,000 2c reds. Also, the 534B, I found in a lot of the imperf offsets.

So, I guess what I'm trying to say is that in this hobby, the details are everything, at least on the classics, and knowledge is a real advantage. You'll be surprised at what $4 in a cover box can buy-- if you know what it is, and others do not.

Good luck with the hunt!

Ray

Complete MNH Commemoratives 1929 - 1999

I have almost all of the American Scenes series stamp variation PNC5s.

My US collection is most complete from 1925-1989, missing about a half dozen souvenir sheets 1990-2000.

Probably of all my collections be they national, regional or topical the most complete is a topical collection on the state of New Mexico of which I'm missing 4 pieces - one of which is in the mail system and on its way to me.

My collection is most complete starting in the #550's - 1976 I have most everything except a handful of stuff and varieties. Lately I've been diligently working on my front of book stuff. It's coming along quite nicely too!

Great topic. I learned a lot. My U.S. colection is fairly complete from 1929 to 1987. I'm currently working on upgrading everything (chuckle) to MNH. It is about "the hunt" and "completion". I gave up on the plate blocks for now. The Post Office began losing my interest somewhere in the 80's. Poor quality, too many unimportant issues, etc. When I finish my current MNH project I expect I'll just start working on the older issues.

I have complete Spain stamps 1850 to 2000.Numbers 1 to 3775
After that, I start collecting MARIANAS ISLANDS 1899 Spanish,German & American stamps

Very much incomplete in my US 1930-1990 collection, I am sure my dealer thinks I am a bit looney with a commemorative here , a special delivery there, the odd official or postal due, but I do plug away and with every addition I am that much closer to achieving my goal..

ray.mac are you the one who found the 491 and had it expertized I remember reading that and was green with envy. Like you I will never complete the Washington-Franklins because of the extreme cost of several of them. But I can always dream can't I? What is it about those stamps which fascinate so? After all, they all look almost alike. There are only 5 or 6 designs.