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

Andyrich 74 ---- I don't try for completing any country , I work to have a decent size Venezuela collection . My goal is to build a Worldwide Collection .

There has been many collections more valuable and other collections more comprehensive as far as completion for their time . Since building my collection in the past few years I have set different goals .

Found these two pages in a Cinderella lot .I recently won at auction . Never seen or heard about them until I read the footnote in the Scott catalog . Hope to add them to my Venezuela collection .

I will never have the most valuable or the most compressive worldwide collection . But I am hoping to have the most diverse collection established Stay with me over the next couple of years ,it should be interesting .

floortrader, what is your count up to for all different stamps? I know I have a long way to catch up at 118, 740. I went backwards a bit when I merged some albums together! Your Venezuela post brings up something else that struggle with. When I get a hold of a neatly mounted collection that has additional information, I sometimes resist pulling the stamps off and putting them into books. Of course that's how I wind up with duplicates! Do other people save well-put together pages and somehow augment into their albums?

I'm curious about the perforations within the stamps. I've run across a few like this in some Argentina lots I've bought and I'd never seen it before, maybe a South American thing? What does it mean? (My mom mostly collected Europe/US, so that's what I'd previously been most familiar with)

@EvaSeyler

The general terminology for these perforations is 'perfin'. This stands for perforated initials.
The description on the pages posted by Floortrader identifies these as official use.
Mostly, these were used by firms to prevent clerks stealing the stamps and selling them.
Perfins are fairly common.

For Argentina there is the 'Catálogo Especializado de Perforados República Argentina'. (Already, there have been new finds).

https://filateliaarguello.com/produ...a-argentina/

@NSK Thanks! Good to know there's a book available if I decide to pursue adding more to my collection :-)

Landoquakes --- My count has not been attempted in 2 years . Will try to do a count every 4 years ,numbers don't change much year to year .

As I explained in previous posting , I like most collectors change focus every year or every few years . Focus is not the changing of goals but how I get to the same goal . A few years ago on this chat board we had a group interest of "one stamp from every country " So I went along and worked on that ,it was fun and filled in parts of my collection .

In different places on this chat board recently ,I made comments on the big number of lots that now have been coming up for auction ,my remark was that a lot of speculators / investors are unloading stuff they purchased at public auction of better material and there is so much of this better material hitting the market place now in the last few big auction ,that I see this as a time to pick up this $100.00 to $1,000 material at a fraction of what they paid a few years ago .

So for me it is the better complete sets that I am working on ,if I use my own expression it adds WOW factor to my country collections .

Part of a lot I purchased 2 or 3 years ago.

17 pages printed with stamp images that were already punched to fit a Scott specialty album, so just inserted. 70 different.

No idea as to value, but a nice addition to collection.

Very cool Thinkstamp, saves some money on mounts too!

@EvaSaylor there is another excellent catalog for Argentinian Stamps called the "GJ" catalog, which was published in only the past 1-2 years or so. It's intensively illustrated and lists a huge number of printing varieties for stamps, including all perf varieties, shades, phosphors, fluoros, papers, watermarks, flyspecks, etc.

You can find it at Jalil Stamps through the link below; I don't know if there is a US distributor but I bought mine direct from Jalil Stamps.

https://www.jalilstamps.com/index.php#catalogo

@shermae, that looks like an AMAZING resource. Bookmarked it for future reference!

Those who only collect pre-1940 classics miss out on the many beautiful sets that were issued in the 1940's and 1950's .

To answer or add to the comment ,if others save pages from collections that they purchase ,the answer is yes ,I just punch the holes and trim the edging to fit my binders . Example right here .

Thanks Floortrader. Reminds me of another valuable tool, an adjustable two or three hole punch! Harris, Minkus Scott are all different. No rectangle punches though for Scott Specialty pages. I'm not a fan of their newer 3 ring binders.

Land -- I keep two punchers one set for 3 ring and one set for my Scott Internationals which is set for two hole {I bought that one at a garage sale }.

One of the most useful pieces of home office equipment is the single hole punch - once a civil service prerequisite in the days of paper and proper record-keeping..