How Many Binders Does Your Collection Span?

I guess you can consider it a testimony to the amount of time you've invested in collecting. Perhaps the amount of money spent. It also speaks to how many countries from which you collect. But at the end of the day, it's how many binders you have that you can look at and smile with satisfaction while sitting back in your chair. So...

How many binders of stamps do you currently have, and how do you organize them?

I collect only US, and have 6 binders organized as such:

1. #1 - 1,199
2. #1,200 - 2,400
3. #2,401 - 3,600
4. #3,601 - Now & Air Mail
5. Full Sheets
6. Dupes, Trades, To Identify, To Mount, and a Wish List

Let's get this party started!

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Cardinal Bass

I collect WW (1840-1940), and I have been migrating over to the Classic Steiner pages.

So far, with Aden-Italy put in binders, I count...21!

And I have a long ways to go.

I collect specific countries.

3 Heirloom binders for US

One binder (Steiner pages) each for:

Austria (till 1980)
France (till 1975)
Sweden (till 1975)
Portugal (1955-75.. working on earlies)
Australia (till 1985)
Denmark (till 1980)
India (till 1980)
Luxembourg (till 1980)

Vario binders (will be mounted or hinged when I have time I suppose )
3 for other EU
2 for Africa
2 for South & central america

Total 18.. more on the way

6 White Ace albums for U.S.
1 Seven Seas hingeless for Pre-Decimal Australia
2 Seven Seas hingeless for Decimal Australia
1 Seven Seas hingeless for Australia Antarctic
1 Seven Seas hingeless for Australia Frama
1 large Voyager album for Papua New Guinea, British N.G., Territory of N.G. and Papua
1 large Voyager album for Germany
Vario and Hangers in 6, three ring binders from Scott for Great Britain, Norfolk Island, Germany Occupied, Germany 1868 to Federal Republic, Air Post and Officials.
Bullseye cancels,
10 Stock books
5 cover albums

These are my main collections. Now that I wrote them down, I must be a little nuts.

Bless me your Eminence...excluding stockbooks...only albums and cover albums I see on shelves and bookcases...i count 69 !

Uh oh ! organizing...i keep the 9 scott internationals together..the Argentina albums,stamps,postcards,covers together...and I try to keep the Guatemala collection together but cover and postcard albums are all over !!

8 10 cover albums. about 12 15 other binders/albums.
About 20 countries.

12 albums of Scott International
8 albums of US only including lots of Back of the Book
8 albums of this-and-that, State Revenues, Machins, Cinderellas, etc...
6 albums of Germany
and a Partridge in a Pear Tree

34 total - not counting the tree

Wow! I mean, WOW! These are great replies! Keep 'em coming! I thought 6 was a lot, but I can see I'm in my infancy! I'm 42, so I have a few years ahead of me to catch-up!

Side question - what are your plans for your collections after you've "packed-up and moved on" so-to-speak? My daughter wants my bass guitars, and my son wants my stamps. Not for a while, I told them....not for a while!

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Cardinal Bass

Collect worldwide
75 Albums
that includes about 7 albums for "awkwards"
that need to be sorted / mounted.

I have willed my collection (as poor as it is)
to my stamp club. They can auction it all off
and have funds for the club.

Canadian mint only - 84 (2" "D" ring binders),
stock books for sheets/panes and other large items,
30+ cylinders of uncut press sheets,
lots of miscellaneous stuff

i guess I could expect Rod to do a well thought out plan involving the future of his stamps...he knows their future ! Stamp collecting is a personal thing...My wifes collections of European Ententes and Europa forerunners is much better and more focused than mine....but I would not trade mine for hers !!

I counted 54 volumes plus 28 stockbooks (large) and anoth 14 smaller ones.

While I am in the process of scaling down, I am still making more albums for my specialized material.

There are also 9 of the White Ace albums for complete sheets

Chimo

Bujutsu

12 for U.S. to 1940
2 for Bureau precancels
3 for expo cancel covers
3 for misc cancel covers
1 for streetcar rpo covers
2 for WW (rarely opened)
39 large stockbooks

Dianne Earl has not responded as yet,
she is still counting,

"1,234, 1,235, 1,236.........."