Scott British Albums - Looking

After years of using Gibbons albums, including a set of George VI and New Imperial albums I find myself considering moving my collection into Scott albums. Gibbons albums provide spaces for lots of varieties I do not collect and can never afford to. Much of my purchase in this area is from US dealers using Scott #s.

Is anyone else doing this and if so do you like the Scott system for this area of collecting?

I've never used anything other than Scott for GB, and I really like them. The main issue of course is constantly translating catalog numbers back and forth. The SG catalogs are more attractive and easier to use in my view and standard for the London auction houses from which I sometimes buy. There's also a British-born, US-based dealer whom I like, but who only uses SG catalog numbers for his stock and grumbles (to the point of annoying me) when I ask for items by Scott. So I have to do the translation up front and be prepared to deal with him in SG numbers whenever I see him at shows. My "want list" for GB is now down to about 50 stamps, so it's no longer a big deal.

Only once did I collect to Gibbons: India. Varieties/Shades. Never again. Scott for me.

I did not even think about trying to collect the States. edit.

It is sort of fun to collect like a Brit and use Gibbons albums/pages. I have my GB in Windsor albums and do not plan to move those, have spent too many years collecting to Gibbons on that one, I have perhaps 70-80% of the pre 1936 spaces filled. Many earlies have defects but look presentable.

Collecting the Empire in a Gibbons album is just proving too frustrating. I have realized I am trying to build a representative collection, not a terribly specialized one. Scott fits that better. Thinking of getting a few page sets of the British America area and maybe of Africa. That can be my Philatelic Christmas present this year- the wife lets me use the family credit card to buy up to $200 or so then wraps and gives it to me. That problem may be solved.

Collecting India by Gibbons- OMG. All those states.

Stamps,

Right, India.

I collect KGVI Commonwealth country-by country and have spent a fortune so far. When I got to India, I decided to leave that country till the end! Ireland complete. Now on to Jamaica.

Jack Kelley

The Gibbons GVI album doesn't contain much in the way of varieties, so all you'd be gaining for ditching your albums and transferring stamps would be Scott numbers and misplaced charity and air-mail stamps. No-one is going to complete an Imperial album - why not just relax and regard the books as fairly full guides to the stamps together with the coloured illustrations that you're comfortable with adding?

Could I just add once again a link to the thread documenting the progress of an Aussie collector's Imperial? This is a lovely thing. The thread also contains, towards the end, updates on SG's progress in offering hingeless EVII and QV albums.

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By the way, Stamps, I have Palo which has no numbers but models Stanley Gibbons. Looking for the right stamps can become bewildering when searching for Scott or SG numbers. Rod222 had to come to my aide for the Australia stamps. (Thanks Rod!)

Jack Kelley

I bought a collection of Dominica on New Imperial pages. I had no problems moving them into my Scott Specialized for British America. They translated quite nicely, and I like the Scott layout better.

Couple years ago, I bought a British East Africa collection, including East Africa & Uganda Prot. and Kenya/Uganda/Tanganyika, through the mid-1960s. The numbering system is Gibbons and the collection has all sorts of varieties.

To house it, within my British Commonwealth collections, which are on Big Blue International pages, I recently got a good deal on two largely empty British Africa Scott albums. I'll use the appropriate pages and trim them down to fit my International binders. British East Africa is one of my four specialty areas. The only Gibbons catalog I own is for B.E.A. & K.U.T., which allows me to properly identify the varieties.