Storing Large Used World Wide Collections

Does someone have a link to the discussion thread or other resource where I could see Floortrader's collection?

Still love that photo... Is there a more current one?

No new current pictures ,since then I have moved to a new house and been working on Steiner pages and both the forgery collection and the Cinderella collection .During the past ten years a lot of my duplicates have been transferred from stock books to 102 dealer cards and filed into the long red boxes .

Where might I find some older images.

Hi Shermae. I like this thread of yours I think you are rising some very relevant questions. What about sharing some more of your own input on them?

I am intrigued with your interest for the definitives, and got specially interested in this comment of yours (on another thread)




Maybe you would share some photos of how you are arranging such a collection? Believe many will find that quite inspiring

SHERMAE ----I don't have pages scanned and on the internet .If someone is discussing something on a chat board then I will scan and post what I have to that subject .A few people here have brought up different speciality items and others here expanded on the subject and then I made up a page from all their information and then posted it .
My collection has lots of pages were notes and explanations are written around the stamps, it is not done for display purposes but more as a research and information source .

shermae If you want to see some gorgeous stamps, here is one of the most impressive scanned worldwide collections on the net:

http://mitch.seymourfamily.com/mwar...ndexa-z.html

I've been a general worldwide collector for many years and have tried too many ways of storing the collection. I started as a kid with little money, so Traveler and Statesman albums was fine. Now I buy mystery boxes, auction lots and way too much kiloware. My collection is in the many thousands!

At one point I had a Harris Masterworks album. Unfortunately, I thought it was too limited many years ago and I dumped it. I now really regret that decision. My collection spent over 15 years in envelopes in boxes waiting for me to find the perfect answer. I added more boxes and more envelopes, but worried constantly about the condition of the stamps all stuffed in overfilled envelopes. I spent too much money and time on different albums, even tried Steiner pages. I like the look of stamps mounted on album pages rather than stock pages. Steiner pages, like Scott Internationals, seemed to have too much white space and would take too many years of printing and mounting and take too many notebooks. I'm one of those that wants to fill all those empty spots (Yeah, I know I'll never get there).

Sooo...to make a long story short, I recently found my solution. I picked up a few auction lots lately which were focused on the stamps, but came with some nice album pages. If you are OK with the idea of every page not matching, this may work for you. Auction houses focus on the stamps in large lots, not really the albums. You can get some really nice album pages if you take a chance on a few auction lots. I used mainly Dutch Country auctions and Apfelbaum (avoiding international shipping costs). I was surprised by one lot that came with 5 volumes of Minkus Supreme/Master global pages with an older collection, but the pages only took me up to 1950s-60s. Then, I got another auction lot that just listed "stamps in notebooks on Harris pages". Jackpot! The notebooks were really nice in slip cases (there were 30 of them), with Harris Masterwork pages and supplements from 1982-1995, then the Canada-based Worldwide pages from 1995-2002 (used for Olympian). So, I put ALL the pages together and had a gap in the 70s. Finally, this week, I tried another cheap auction box lot listing worldwide collection in 5 Harris albums through the early 80s. It was really cheap, due to low cat value stamps, but contained nice Masterwork pages from the 70s to early 80s. With this final purchase, I now have mostly complete pages through 2002 (I'm adding supplements for more recent years as we speak)...at a cost of less than $1000 (plus all the bonus stamps in the auction lots). So, my stamps are now finally all coming out of their envelopes. I'm staying up way to late each night and having to purchase a ton of hinges, but I can now finally enjoy my stamps.

So, try a few worldwide box lots to hunt for cheap album pages. You can sometimes email auction houses for more details on a lot. They may tell you the brand of album pages and what years they cover. My favorites are Minkus Supreme Global and Harris Masterwork for more complete coverage of issues.

Jenny2U - That certainly was a monsterous collection!! Close to shocking. Probably quite rare to see the Colony of Candada 1851 issue, 12d Victoria in a general WW collection. Or the French Air mail 1928 issues (Catapult mail..) Authentic?? Also kind of uplifting to realize that even small-fish collectors like myself find empty spaces in there that could be filled from ones own far more modest collecetion. This simply demonstrates it's impossible to fill all the spaces, even with the resources these guys obviously have... In that way this hobby is somewhat fair to all of us, no one will ever 'complete'!
Anybody knows what kind of album pages they are using?

sjtwxgirl - I like your alternative and low-budget solution to WW storage. Even environmental-friendly in terms of re-use!

it's a computer printed one, I have the same , if you look around on the same page he have bearely no other inperforated

Area66 - What you're saying absolutely makes sense, even missing several low-value jubilees' - that's why I questioned if it really was authentic. I have the same feeling about the Ile de France air mail surcharges...those rarities seems out of place 'crammed' in on that album page... Looks nice, though! Their collection from France seems to be quite insane anyway, so maybe those airmails are in fact authentic, who knows?

look at the close up of the photo , you can see he cut an image, we can see the black around the stamp, he should have cut it at the end of the white border

Nice area66 - what's your verdicton the French air mails?

I have no idea what you two are going on about. It looks to me like the stamp is in a close cut stamp mount. There are many missing high value stamps in this collection - why would only a few be misrepresented? Unless you have proof to the contrary, your conjecture is nothing but that. I think it's rather sad to be so skeptical without any evidence whatsoever. Believe it or not, there are many collectors with extensive collections of this type - this is just one of the few to be online.

Jenny2U - My comments were first of all aspired by a huge enthusiasm and acknowledgement for the fantastic collection this family has put together. Nothing can take that from them. I am grateful for you posting the link, I will use that collection for future reference, very handy.

Still I believe this a forum for debating all aspects of our hobby. A hobby influenced by the quest for the top rarities and sadly falsifications of the same. In light of that I do not find it out of place to have a debate when those top rarities are exposed. The owners would probably appreciate any kind of 'publicity' anyway, if not their collection would not be on public display online in the first place. If you find such a debate sad, I can only apologise for that. I doubt the owners would feel the same way.