Old Album 1901-1902

Hi guys..Here is a picture of an old catalogue I got..It says Scott stamp and coin company..Did Scott make a catalogue and if so, when did they just drop the coins and stay with stamps..?

Robert

Actually I think that's a stamp album, not a catalogue. I have a vintage 1901 Scott stamp album that I bought in a Kelleher collections auction a couple years ago; one of several albums that were in that collection near the back end of their general collections section. I didn't know for sure what I had until I bought it. Stamps aren't worth much, but the album will remain in my collection. As for when Scott dropped the coin part of their business, I don't know that answer.

Sorry Climber Steve...Meant to say ALBUM...

Robert

Robert, you should be able to edit/correct the thread title.

Coins: As a clue, the 1937 Scott worldwide catalog (all the world in 1 volume!) lists the company name as "The Scott Stamp & Coin Co., Ltd." and has ads for several coin products in the back. 1939 US Specialized catalog has the company name as "Scott Publications, Inc." and no coin product listings. Yet, there are some coin publications listed in the worldwide catalog in 1940 and 1941 and perhaps afterward.

The Scott Stamp Catalog goes back to at least to 1905, I believe my friend had a compete set from 1905-1950 he was trying to sell.

The Scott catalog goes back to 1868. Here is a scan of the 1868 list as reprinted in 1971 by Scott.




And here is the title page of an 1893 Scott album, 10th edition. The cover is very dark and blind0stamped, so it won't scan well at all.

Wert, the album cover you posted is for what is informally known as a "Brown" Scott International album, so named because in later years they had brown covers as opposed to the blue covers in today's Internationals. The Browns started in 1876. In 1901, Scott realized they needed to issue a second volume, so they renamed the original album the "19th Century Edition," and then started issuing hard bound albums every few years until they had a Volume II covering 1901-1919.

I just got a Nineteenth Century Edition with the brown cover a couple weeks ago from E-Bay with the intention to fill it up as much as I can. The date on the bottom of the title page is 1902. It's in pretty decent shape, but the pages seem a bit fragile. It only takes a mis-directed bump on the edge of a page to produce a nice tear; not really surprising considering how long it's been around. I'm not sure how well it's going to work once I start trying hinge a bunch of stamps in it, but I guess I will find out.

wulfslaed: welcome to the Forum. You might reconsider trying to hinge stamps into an album that old. When I was a kid in the 1960s, my dad gave me his 1940 edition Scott Modern hardback album, and his 1935 paperback Ivory Soap Stamp Club album, to get me started on my way in collecting.

Even though very young, I figured out that neither was good for adding stamps to due to age and fragile nature of the paper; caused by the humidity common in central Indiana (they stayed in my bedroom, not in the attic or basement).

My folks gave me a Harris Senior Statesmen album couple years later and I retired the two old albums, with mostly the stamps my dad had placed in them. I still have those albums.

The funny things is the album stops at 1901..Yikes..have to find a lot of old stamps.

Robertt

Wert, the thing that has always confused me is how these bound volumes were used. Scott started with the album you have, 1901-1902, and then I've seen editions for 1901-1908, 1901-1910, 1901-1912, 1901-1916, 1901-1917, 1901-1918 and finally 1901-1919. (I wouldn't be surprised if there weren't ones in between 1902 and 1908). But the point is, did collectors expect to remount their stamps every few years? (There were loose leaf versions, but these were more expensive and are rarely seen today.)