Pushing 330,000 All Different Worldwide Stamps In One Collection .

Each worldwide collector has their own list of "would like to have " stamps I also have that list ,there are about 100 sets that I work on getting .My list of the 100 different items each fill a album page . I already have shown the first Tibet set .

Here is one of those 100.

The Bulolo Goldfield set .

Floortrader, that is a really pretty set.

Rturn 22 ----- I like being able to move around thru the years going into different subjects . Going thru different subjects like collecting forgeries , working in Cinderella stamps , buying up British Colonies and now working on complete sets on album pages .

The list of subjects never ends .

Just got a few books about famous collectors of the past . Started reading the book about the AVERY COLLECTION .
Starting to think these guys were hoarders, investors, speculators and had a lot of extra money to play with .

"SOMEDAY " ---- I meet a older guy who has a stamp collection . We got to talking stamps .

I asked him to tell me about his collection .

This is what I heard ,SOMEDAY he is going to organize it better , SOMEDAY he is going to soak the stamps off paper . SOMEDAY he is going to sort out all the duplicates , SOMEDAY he is going to mount all his stamps . SOMEDAY he is going to buy the latest catalog to see what they are worth .
He asked me to come over and tell him what it is all worth . I told him sure SOMEDAY ,but not this week because I DID work until late last night on my French stamps and plan to work later on Honk Kong stamps tonight . I DID buy new paper to print pages and I DID make plans to spend the weekend on them .

Told him to come on the STAMP COMMUNITY CHAT BOARD because he will find a lot of other SOMEDAY stamp collectors .

Made up 5 banker boxes to be delivered to a stamp auction firm ,Just a lot of loose stuff and picked over binders . Had to clean out a closet to make room for future purchases .

Lots of discussions about building a large collection but what is left out is time frame or as I like to say playing the long game . You have to think in two clear paths first the time frame of 40 or 50 years and second is having a method and organiztion that will stand up for years .

The goal of my stamp collection is to have something different .
Having something different isn't having more pages or more complete sets but it is having material other collectors don't have in their collection . That can be done different ways .
It is to have 10,000 or 20,000 odd ball things or stuff that makes the collection
worth spending time with to see what surprise is there with the turning of the next page .

Stuff like this .

Something from my Germany album .

Noticed over the last few months ,there has been a reduce amount of worldwide stamp collections as single lots [these are A-Z albums ] coming up for auction at the 4 or 5 major stamp auction firms .

I think they have caught on they can make more $ breaking them down. I wonder if we they have enough ebay sellers like nystamps to buy everything up and resell it by stamp, set or page. Puts a floor in on these country collections. Have you see the Latest Dutch Country breaks down some country collections into parts as well. The Price points were lower, so we shall see.

I picked up the Danzig collection from that Swanson sale, so it will remain in Chicago! It's quite a nice collection and a country I didn't really have. Currently I'm mounting a Liberia collection on Steiner. Didn't realize how many overprints were created for Liberia.