Are You A Completist?

Personally i'm currently trying to complete my collection of Germany Third Reich period..and i'm slowly filling in the spaces..it'll be a while yet...some of the higher value stamps are out of my budget range.
Also i'm working on collections of stamps by engraver. Decaris, Slania etc.
Please share your stories and experiences.

Im a completist ,I have more stamps from more countries and sub-groups than any collector in history.My collection beats all the famous collectors in history ,never ever was there a collector who even comes close ...........................................................................................................................................before anybody ,gets worked up over this ,if you think about this ,you can see the truth of the statement ....I even got South Sudan .

I'm a dreamer, but that doesn't stop me from trying to be a completist. Not only do I try to get all the stamps in my area of collecting interest, but I try to get them in used/unused singles, pairs, blocks and multiples, used with as many different cancels as I can, examples on cover, plate varieties, proofs and essays, etc.... Actually, I'm not sure I can count myself as a completist at all since I have no idea where to stop or even what all exists. I'll just stick with calling myself a "dreamer".

So far I just completed UN-NY. I will be able to complete UN-Geneva and UN-Vienna this year. I will be able to complete Allied occupation of Germany 1945 to 1949 and West Berlin. I do have a shot at completing US airmails. All of the above are mint never hinged. I will never be able to complete the whole US collection but that's alright. I'm having fun! Dan

I'm a complete wreck.

floortrader,

would love to see some of your early stamps of Australian States,

Pagoda

Put me down as a NO! my collecting interests are too varied !!

To a collector, it's the thrill of the hunt. To be complete would mean the thrill is gone.

Put me down as a no! My collecting interests are so varied, and I dont think I've completed anything - yet !

my collection will never be complete - there will always be something that I am after

I am definitely a completest and as for my experience... ->

PAGODA-------Welcome to the board,I think you missed the point of my posting.Its not the valuable stamps of early Australia but having stamps of all the hard to get and all the new countries made aviable over the past few years .Countries like the indepedant countries of Africa ,all the different WWII ocupation groupings {like Japan in the Far East} and all the countries created after the Soviet Union broke up .
That is what I was claiming in my posting, the great collectors of the past never lived to see those hundreds of new sub-divisions .So it safe to say my collection is more extensive than theirs.

I am a completist in the sense that I set goals for a given set of stamps or time period that has some realistic chance of coming to fruition. I of course have holes in my albums that far exceed my financial ability to fill but do my best to focus on the goals I have set.

Floortrader,

thanks,

those Japan in the far east occupation sounds interesting, could you show those,

Pagoda

I rather stay on the subject that GRAPHIS started here,and that was trying to be a completise with stamps from all the political sub-divisons of a worldwide collection .

I can't stand blank spaces on album pages. They bug me. So I have been in the wrong hobby. All I can do is minimize the number of them. I wish there were something I could put in them to just fill the spaces.


-IBFS