Have You Ever Completed A Stamp Album?

I still have my childhood Harris Traveler album (circa 1980) and I'd also like to fill every space in it someday. I'm not actively working toward that goal, but I do still add to it occasionally using duplicates from my main collection.

Never.

Not possible for me. There will always be those few stamps that are simply out of range of my budget.

For what it is worth, the OP asked if anybody ever completed a stamp album. I don't know if it counts, but I'm within 150-200 of completing my USA Mystic USA albums. 1900-1920 all MNH - missing 125 or so. 19th Century is used and missing about 75 stamps. Working on KGVI MH now.

Jack Kelley

Ha. I'm not at all close to even being 1/10 done. Would anyone like to share photos of their collection with me?

Finished 4 Schaubek Peoples Republic of China albums 1970-2006.

Hi after a few years of trying to fill the spots in an album, then I realized someone else decided what was in the album.

So stopped filling those empty holes and went to stock books, no more hinges could include varieties and anything else I thought was more important than just one examples.

Good luck

Stampmaster

I completed US airmail, mint. Thank goodness my White Ace pages did not have a place for the inverted Jenny!

Jack Kelly- will you be seeking the Bahamas 5/- second printing on thin striated paper and/or the Jamaica 5/- line perf 14.1 as part of your LH collection?

Sjtwxgirl,

Could you describe your main collection?

At one time I owned hingeless album pages (I think KaBe- was a long time ago). I had several of these "albums" complete from Scott 1 for several countries (up to about 1986 or so). Places like Tokelau, Cocos Is., Christmas Is., BIOT, Tristan Da Cunha, Australian Antarctic Territory, Ross Dependency, and Papua New Guinea. At lease those were the ones I can recall. When I realized I didn't like many of the stamps and didn't wish to add supplements and endless new issues, I took all the stamps out and moved in a different direction.

Since I collect only definitives and really like Vario pages, the only "spaces" in my pages are placeholders for singles I need to find. I love the idea of building a huge used stamp collection (since it would be less expensive compared to mint) but I lack the time at this point in my life to do something so ambitious. Maybe when I retire.

31 stamps from completing my MNH Canada collection. Alas I think I can afford 25 of them!

shermae,

I will check and get back to you.

Jack Kelley

Shermae,

I have the Bahama stamp and haven't gotten to Jamaica yet. I'm working thru the countries in order and am only up to the letter "C". Doesn't sound like much but I am actually 20-25% thru the entire KGVI collection. Sorry.

Jack Kelley