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

Here is a set that you rarely see in a worldwide collection ,the Italy child welfare set used complete .

Got a e-mail that my Child welfare set wasn't complete because the air mails were missing OK ! . here they are

Neat page with colorful stamps .

Here is a page that I completed 50 to 52 years ago ,before a wife and kids . This is from one of mine Scott Speciality albums .

Here is a interesting stamp . This was a WWI CHARITY LABEL . But the government of INDIA ban it as a charity label because a value was printed into the design of 1/2 anna . Not sure if some were used or did they catch it before it went public .

Looking to be active today at Dutch Country Auctions . They have two lots in their country collections section that are both not usually found in auctions .

My goal is to build up those areas that are not typical found often in other peoples worldwide collections .My goal in expanding a worldwide collection was to have a decent showing of each country . It really is harder than you think .it takes years of looking thru country auction lots .

So, Trader, how'd you do with DCA today?
I won 3 lots: NFLD, British Africa and a Big Blue

RAY.MAC ---- "so how'd you do ? " . ,I got the Tristan Da Cunha collection and a Big Blue pre -1940 part 1A2 so ---same as you .

Here is a example of two stamps that was missed in the STEINER PAGES series of album pages . .These three sided perforated stamps are a important part of any Sweden collection .

Each collector needs to decide what should be mounted in their own collection .

I also collect the straight edge on both sides of the stamp, some of them have the bottom also with straight edge. I think most of the Sweden booklets have the perforated tab at the bottom, so not a lot of those!

OZWALDO ---- I collect just a single copy from a booklet pane . Other more popular ways to collect them is the booklet complete ,others collect a single pane , then others collect it by different positions on the pane which would have straight line side on different sides. Each collector makes their album page the way they want .

Sounds like you collect one regular stamp plus the coil .

I guess that wasn't to clear what I said, I collect the booklet singles with the straight edge on each side on the stamp right or left, sometimes there is also the imperf on 3 edges. I collect mainly used in my album, so I will mount a pane if it's postally used, pages can get messy but I guess it works! I have several of the unused booklets, but they seem more like labels than stamps when they haven't done their postal duty, but I still like them!

Collectors in Sweden very commonly collect all positions of booklet stamps. I've perused multiple Sweden collections that were set up this way.

I like the Steiner Pages but sometimes even they don't go as far as I want to go .
A few people of this board asked how I come up with my count of all different ,simple answer everybody counts differently . I count these as seperate stamps because they have sub numbers in the catalogs .

I agree Paul. Just because some collectors only want face different stamps doesn't mean that new printings with variations aren't separate, collectible stamps.