Scott International Question - How Many Spaces Provided Through 1984

Ok Scott nerds here's one for you. Does anyone know approximately how many space are provided for the period 1840-1984?

Is there a chart somewhere that shows the spaces by Part #?

Thanks,

Ken

I've seen the following counts on another forum:

Parts I to V: 85,675

Parts I to XI: 195,219

Now to get a count of parts 12 to 20. I would not be surprised if it were to exceed the 195K.

Dale

Here are the stamp counts I have for the International album, but these aren't my numbers. I got these from commentators on the Big Blue website some time ago, and I can't vouch for their accuracy:

Part I - 34,410 stamps from 1840-1940,
Part II - 16,857
Part III - 14,035
Part IV - 8,621
Part V - 11,662 (through 1963)
= total 85,585 spaces from 1840-1963.

Another count has different figures, but they're fairly similar:
Part I - 34,711 stamps from 1840-1940
Part II - 17,187
Part III - 14,99
Part IV - 8,613
Part V - 20,032 (but through 1965, not 1963)
= A total of 95,534 spaces for 1840-1965 (adding two years to the count may account for most of the difference).

As for the number of stamps in the album from this point through 1984, here are estimates by decade of the number of stamps issued worldwide. Since by the 1950s, the International album generally included spaces for all stamps issued (unlike before), these "stamps issued" figures should pretty well represent a decent approximation of the number of spaces in the album for these years:

1961-70: 55,000
1971-80: 100,000
to 1984: maybe 50,000 more?

So for 1963-84, add somewhere between 180-200,000 stamps to the previous 86-96,000 figures. That would bring the grand total in the album for 1840-1984 to about 265,000 stamps at the lower end, and about 290,000 at the higher end. That is if these figures are correct, and of course I have no way of knowing if they are.

For more accurate figures, you'd better start your own count.

For 1840-1940, the greatest offenders are:
Turkey 2,276
Indian States 2,270
Spain 1,949
Austria 1,902
Nicaragua 1,748
Mexico 1,644
Colombia 1,462

Can't speak to their representation in Part I, but these seven account for over 13,000 stamps (in absolute terms). Whew.

Good Lordy, that's a big number. Color me intimidated.

I can see why so many people collect only up to a certain year.

-Lance

Drew,

The number will be slightly less as some countries are not included in the Scott Internationals--for example no Mongolia and I am pretty sure there are others but I don't know which ones.