That is cool. Simple in concept, but trivial to complete. I am going to give it a go. It will be interesting to see how long, if ever, it takes me to complete it.
Nice idea and a topical theme would probably work for most countries that have issued stamps over the last 100 years or so. There are a lot of countries in the album (German States, for example) that only issued a few stamps 100+ years ago, none of which pictured things like animals or trains, etc, so you'd still need to be somewhat flexible.
I've kicked around the idea of doing this album, and I think I'd try to select something highly emblematic of that country, like a flag or a national symbol, a monarch or famous person, etc. Alternately, you could select, say, just the country's first issue. You could have colonial issues all be the same key type and denomination/color if you want. There's definitely a lot of different ways one could approach this album.
One stamp per country is one of my collections, and as topic I have chosen landscapes. The list of countries is based on the Michel-catalogue and sofar has 1037 entries. For my collection I exclude those countries that exclusively use former stamps (of the same or other countries) with overprints, which leaves 725, of which I have about 75%.
For those countries where a landscape is not available, e.g German and Italian States, some local or regional issues, former colonies, post offices abroad, I just take anything.
I prepared the complete list also in English, so if interested drop me a mail.
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