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

Floortrader,

I enjoy collecting different things as well. This was part of a box lot I received sometime back. I thought since the previous stewards of this went out of their way to carefully save everything, I should too. The writeup is included and reproduced for readability. I'm not claiming or stating its rare, just reproducing the hyped write up.

"Tristan Da Cunha scarce booklet variety.
1958 Issue QEII complete exploded booklet (including covers, interleaving & even the thread)
with all panes CDS cancelled on first day of booklet issue. Each pane also has the FULL Waterlow & Sons inscription in tab (never seen this before). A lovely showpiece. SGcat SB3 as booklet @ #40. Estimate $60."

GT350Anny ---- Nice page , interesting write up and display .

It has to be written that the old masters and giants of the past ,only had 1,000 to 1500 stamps to display ,their collections maybe had 2,000 items they could display . But today you and me have some 2,000,000 items that can be written up and displayed on a album page . So today a life time of collecting will only be a small fraction of what can be done .

I have spent the last several days reading the 156 pages of this discussion, and I am eager to read and learn more. My appreciation goes to all of you who have participated, but obviously special appreciation to FloorTrader. I am a world collector of used stamps up to 1965. I started collecting early on as a kid and then sporadically until I retired. I wake up every day eager to work on my collection. I am in the midst of moving my collection from 13 Big Blues to umpteen number of office supply binders, which are being filled with Steiner pages. I love the Steiner pages, so much more complete, and with D ring binders everything is much easier. My real challenge, however, is how long it takes for me to complete a page; I need to become faster.

I'm not sure I've read all 156 pages, but I often dip into this thread, and always find something to delight me.

The Tristan da Cunha book is the 1960 issue: earlier and later issues were stapled, not stitched. Being cancelled to order would make it less desirable to some collectors, more desirable to others. The Waterlow imprint would appear once or twice in every uncut sheet, so it's a nice thing to have, but not a rarity. Despite the seller's hype, the asking price isn't unreasonable, I think. Current SG price (for mint, unexploded) has increased from £40 to £50.