Scotts Catalog New Vs Older Questions

"Fool by those ......learn a little " REV are you talking about me ?

64 years ago ,I had a paper route in Chicago and made less than dollar a day delivering newspapers . I saved $10.00 . Went to the stamp store ,told the stamp dealer I want to buy early U.S. stamps because I had a lot of newer U.S. but the front of my album was empty . Told me he would give me a great deal and had it in the store and give me a deal at 1/2 of catalog
Two years later I brought my W.W. album to the Ogden Hills Stamp Club {this is the club that started COMPEX , at the time the biggest stamp show in the Midwest with lots of great guys } Told them look at my early U.S, . shocked by what they said ,all stamps damaged and worth nothing .
So yea ,had a lot to learn and dealers are not the place for me to buy .

The original size means the size before they reduced the printed image size to keep page count down. I do not know the how the size compares to the actual stamp. Gibbons prints on better paper so images tend to be better paper.

Scott with 12 volumes per year and the cost continues to climb , this method of printing has to come to a end as the numbers continue to fall for retail sales .
They will try on-line access but that is not the same as having a set of books on your desk that you paid a set price for . The on-line access is a new cost each year . Believe it or not my 2015 catalogs of 6 volumes works fine 90% of the time I need a catalog .