Pushing 330,000 All Different Worldwide Stamps In One Collection .

Here is a page I doubt you will ever see this page complete in any other Worldwide collection .

You are right floortrader on difficulty of this set and syncopated perfs, in my opinion.

They look like quality sets too.

Seldom offered as sound sets, let alone in a collection. Mint or used are tough to get.
No high values in my collection, anyway.

Can I assume you bought high values individually?. How about the type 1 of the 1Gld?
I keep hoping for a lucky find for the 1GLD type 1 in a general collection. But none in my 45 years of collecting.

I would imagine when you part with your collection these along with other better sets will be pulled.

Thinkstamps ------- Yes the high values were purchased seperately ,both types of type I and type II are at the top of the page .

My plans are to sell everything in one shot and get one check .Part of the terms will be to be paid in 30 days of the sale not this 60 days or 90 days garbage I hear from others about when to expect payment . All my life I paid for auction lots in two weeks and I expect the same . If they want to extent credit that is fine but not with my dime .

I will not allow items pulled ,my biggest fear would be the better stuff is sold and the rest is returned to me after the auction . I want to sell it like you see in next weeks auction at Kelleher Auctions for lots 782,and 783 at auction 812 .

Those two are very large and somewhat impressive collections with a lot of coverage.

Condition is quite mixed though. I'm a British empire collector and had a quick look at the PDF which includes the Cyprus & Fiji stuff. Just seeing the fronts you can see a lot of it has tone spots and sundry stains so you would expects the backs to be hideous in many cases. Having said that, there is a huge amount of material and someone will see the potential for merging into their own collection and/or resale.

floortrader, they should give you your own auction sale catalog, a collectors item in its own right! The last lot of large collections sometimes is... "that large pile of extra collections and box lots that world collectors acquire to merge into their collections..."

Zendo 59 ---- Thanks for that update ,I been reading the printed catalog and have not view the on line pictures but will take a look tonight .... thanks . It sounds like a amazing collection in print .

Landoquakes ---- Not sure if the stamp auction firm would give me a seperate catalog or just kick me out the door .

I should of read the printed catalog better before ZENDO 59 made the statement and so I went to the website to view the collection .
I would of understood these lots better .

The catalog does have the red flags that I should of understood quicker .
Let me explain this better to new readers here who will be reading auction catalogs in the future .

Here are the warning or caution signs they need realise in the written catalog .

"there is a significant amount of unmounted material "
"plus purchases on 102 cards "
"plus duplicates mint and used "
"Independent Countries " this mean a lot of modern /recents wallpaper stamps are figured into the catalog value .
"the owner's catalog value " this means the owner is using a older higher value catalog prices.
"the owner has the Scott value without the second album " means the auction house is telling you there is second albums in Their estminates or duplicate collections in this offer .

The surprise for me was the poor maintenance of the pages, the auction house should of spend a few hours to organize the pages better for scanning .

Don't get me wrong there is a lot I like about the nice stamps in this collection ,but CLEAN IT UP for viewing both by the owner and the auction house . Loose stamps laying on a album page don't make it for me if you're opening bid is above $10,000.00.

Always looking for "spice " to add to my collection . Every now and then search for something other collectors don't see or no interest in .

Here is a new page added this weekend . I just DON'T see anyone out there keeping up with the world of FAKES and FORGERIES .

Neat set ,easy to find if your willing to pay a high percentage of catalog. Found these in a large auction lot recently purchased . I like these type of lots for stuff that I am not willing to buy seperately at the high percentage that sellers are asking.

After reaching a goal of a few hundred thousand stamps ,now going to stay and be playing in a zone of complete sets in the $20.00 to $500.00 catalog range .

This range of catalog value is too low for most stamp auction firms but to me it is the range that most worldwide collections fall flat . It is also a area which viewers enjoy viewing completed album pages .

Interesting, floortrader - was just thinking the same thing. Picked up a beautiful 2 volume set of Minkus Global albums for cheap recently - stuffed with 10,000 or so stamps up through the 1950s. No incredible rarities, but a ton of low to medium catalog stamps that I do need for my collection, and that are (relatively) expensive and time consuming to find individually. The truly cheap stuff is everywhere and high values are easy to buy singly, but sometimes it's harder to find the medium-tier material in abundance.

GVOL21---- Agree the medium-tier is where the fun is ,after a collector has a foundation collection .It is also a area that you can connect with both beginners and senior collectors .

It is where a collector can show material to others who can express a interest . With the high price gems how many times can you show the same item ,plus collectors are seeing the same high price gem 10 to 20 times a years at different auctions online .

WOW ---Hit 135,000 reads for this chapter of the Stamp Community Chat Board .

Someday they will included me in their G.O.A.T. posters ..... someday, but not today ...lol

Here is one of my hard to get complete sets . Took awhile ,so happy to fill those spaces .

Was reading a stamp auction catalog this weekend ,found a new insulting term for stamp collectors ....... so if you see me using it ,it is not my creation ,it is from a printed auction catalog .... the word is "SPACE PLUGGER " a little more harsh than "filling spaces ".

Space plugger goes well with "fly specker", for plate variety collectors.

A space plugging fly specker .....

I've read this whole string -- it's tremendous -- but I don't remember anyone discussing how to count the stamps in your albums. Do you just count them straight through? Or is some sort of estimation involved?

Counting seems like it would take a very long time, a long boring time.

Doug Herbert