Santander Stamps In Scott International

It seems I can't find them with Colombia or in the S pages... I do have the latest edition publish in the 90'S

Don't think Big Blue includes the Columbian states in my edition either; bought about 1983. I salvaged rather thin pages for States from another old collection I bought.

I have a Scott Colombia album - I presume a "National" album - from the mid-60s, with which I have a hate-hate relationship. It includes the Santander pages - four of them.

In Scott 2009.
following Colombia.

rod222 , I asked about Scott Int... one day I will burn this album.......

The Colombian states are missing in my 1964 edition. They are in my 1947 edition (3 double-sided sheets or 6 pages, whichever way we're counting).

What is Scott Interational ?
Is that like Gibbons "SOTW" Stamps of the World, stamp Catalogue?
or a Scott Stamp Album?

Hi, Rodney!

One of the few questions I can actually answer on this subject!

By "Scott International", they're referring to the albums, rather than the catalogs.

Rod . Don't tell me you never see a Scott int. Album ..... everyone have them and they are a pain. ... Geoffha the countries albums are call specialty except the US that call National

If you compare the 1947 edition of Scott Junior International with the 1960s and later printings of Scott International Volume I, you'll find they removed the Colombian States, as well as the pages for some of the harder German states (IIRC, both Mecklenburgs, Bergedorf, and maybe Bremen and Hanover too). They also removed spaces for some of the Italy forerunners. I think the coverage for US postal stationery cut squares was greatly abridged as well, and 19th century carrier spaces removed.

These editorial decisions were to reduce the number of more expensive to fill spaces from the album -- the "blue" or "Junior" Scott Internationals were originally intended as entry level world albums, and omit spaces for most of the scarce-to-rare stamps. (The "brown" Internationals were Scott's unabridged world albums, but the originals went out of print ages ago.) This makes it kind of clumsy when you get a nice collection mounted in Blue Internationals -- the good stamps wind up mounted all over the margins, or in inserted pages for non-hardbound copies. Volumes I through III are the worst as far as abridging go; later volumes leave fewer stamps out.

(It's not as bad as when somebody tries to mount a nice worldwide collection in Harris albums, though -- I'm nearly finished processing a pretty nice twelve volume Citation collection, ninety thousand or so different, that had some great material, but since Harris albums are so heavily abridged, the albums were heavily supplemented with additional pages, and sometimes stamps were jammed din the margins of the already crowded printed pages. Egads.)

Interestingly, the blue International volume I has some spaces for stamp sets that were formerly listed but removed from the Scott catalogs (usually because the stamps were prepared but never officially issued.)

As already been said, the Scott International Part I 1840-1940 album ("Big Blue") had Santander spaces in the '41 and '47 editions, but they were removed by the time of the '69 edition.

For discussion on this topic, as well as a checklist of which Scott number spaces were offered in the '41 and '47 editions, see my Big Blue blog post.

http://bigblue1840-1940.blogspot.co...-states.html

Thanks JK . I check you site this afternoon . Seem I don't look at the right place. I checked because I know they remove stamps betten edition.

Aha! Thank Philatarium....very much.
Not seen them before, we in the Antipodes, generally use Gibbons as a catalogue source, and who knows for Albums? Perhaps "Seven Seas"

Just keep enjoying that Antipodian lifestyle! That's the important thing!

"Antipodes......Antipodian......" Reminds me of that old 1980s song, "Down Under," by Men at Work.

Hi

If specialized pages for Colombia States is needed, Alvaro Barriga in Bogota, Colombia might be a source. He once had a specialized Colombia album. In all probability the pages would not fit into any Scott binder.

Contact Alvaro at: filatelia.colombia@gmail.com

Ask about obtaining the States pages, or the entire album. I have no idea what the cost would be.

I have known Alvaro for 25+ years.

Jerry B