Stamps From Every Country

copy tonymacg thanks!

I am amazed at just about where stamps sprout out

Its ok, the simplified story goes a long way!

I'm looking to make an album for One stamp from every issuing location per Scott's catalog. I'm shooting for an average catalog value of about $10 per stamp so that there are nicer issues. I realize that most of the album could be filled with cheapies for about $10 TOTAL. Above is my first attempt at the Aden page. From Scotts, there are 43 different. I'm already a bit worried about the Argentina States. Note: Some of the text on the page is missing due to shrinking it down enough to fit a snip on this page

There is at least one other state called Mahra. Listed by Gibbons, not sure if it's listed by Scott's.

Stamps from Mahra State are not denominated "Aden"

(Michel # 1)

I see we brought an old post back to life! :)

Ah I stand corrected.

The sultanate of Mahra was a dependency of Aden, though they didn't put it on (most) of their stamps. They later became part of South Yemen, after the Aden Protectorate was no more. Gibbons and Michel list them, Scott does not.

Here are the stamps from my collection ---

The only reasonably tough one from the Argentina states is Cordoba, and that's doable for somewhere around $100...

Since I go a little past the catalogs ,here is mine from Argentina province of Cordoba

Yeah, you see a lot of the revenues from each of the areas in Argentina. I haven't much interest in fiscals, unless they have a postal tie in, like some periods in El Salvador where they were allowed to use fiscals for postal purposes during some specific days.

For anyone interested in starting such a collection, the Smithsonian National Postal Museum has a free, downloadable album called "A Stamp From Every Country" and has spaces for stamps from 785 stamp issuing countries/entities. There are a few mistakes, such as listing Russian precursor states under Romania, but, overall, it's a good place to start. One thing many people don't like, though, is that it is in landscape mode rather than portrait mode.

https://postalmuseum.si.edu/stampga...ryalbum.html

785 Stamp issuing countries , left that number a long time ago . The problem with collection a stamp from every entities is no two collectors will agree on all the countries.

A basic collection and a start is to use one catalog as a reference point ,then expand to the other worldwide catalogs .

Then you fall off the cliff ,then you start collecting revenues which takes you even deeper and you lose everybody else ....it is like the stamp above from CORDOBA ......yes I got stamps from CORDOBA .....which one Spain or Argentina ? Told you ,you do fall off a cliff .